• Lead Comprehensive Design Initiatives: Oversaw conceptualization and design across all mediums, including brand identity, print, and digital interaction.• Design Process Leadership: Directed the design process from concept development to final execution, encompassing wireframes, accessibility compliance, interactive prototypes, final designs, and seamless hand-offs to content and development teams.• Project Management: Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to high-quality standards.• Mentorship and Delegation: Mentored and guided junior designers, providing constructive feedback and efficiently delegating tasks to optimize team productivity.• Client Presentations: Delivered professional and engaging presentations to clients, effectively communicating design concepts and project progress.• Client Relationship Building: Built and maintained strong client relationships, enhancing their understanding of interactive marketing and design to ensure alignment with their business goals.

• Design Process Leadership: Directed the design process from concept development to final execution, including wireframes, prototypes, final designs, content, and seamless hand-offs to development teams.• Workshop Facilitation: Designed and led workshops on human-centered design, customer journeys, and both generative and evaluative research methodologies.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with clients, designers, strategists, project managers, copywriters, and lead developers to ensure cohesive project execution.• Project Roadmapping: Managed project budgets and schedules, ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery.• Client Engagement: Presented to and interfaced with high-level clients, maintaining strong professional relationships.Team Mentorship: Mentored three designers through the stages of ideation, design, research, and presentation.• Innovative Immersive Design: Conceptualized, prototyped, and designed for three-dimensional spaces, including floor plan layouts, projection mapping, audio and light triggers, and motorized elements.• Additional Expertise: Extensive experience in branding, experiential design, advertising design, and social media strategy.

• Holistic Product Strategy: Developed comprehensive product goals for Cisco and in-studio applications, aligning design initiatives with overall business objectives.• Human-Centered Design: Translated in-depth user research into product features, resulting in a 28% increase in IT team efficiency and a 42% reduction in WAN deployment times.• Versatile Skill Set: Demonstrated expertise in branding, UX/UI design, copywriting, business development and strategy, sprint planning, QA, marketing, analytics, customer development, customer communication, and platform management.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered effectively with project managers, engineers, and content strategists to ensure seamless project execution.• Product designer for Picnic, a Sketch collaboration plugin: • Game design and 2D art for TerraFarma, a multi-modal party game that brings an HTC Vive, a HoloLens, and two Xbox 360 Controllers together into a single, connected experience.

• Developed a 10 week syllabus introducing Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and print techniques• Facilitated class discussions that encouraged conceptual depth• Clearly communicated lesson plans and goals• Built confidence and passion in budding designers• Ensured department standards and improved readiness of students• Prepared lectures teaching design principles and history• Assessed multiple learning styles of 20 students and adapted to ensure the success of each student

• UX/UI for Form Experience, STG Consulting, Lily Drive and Louder Than• Creative technologist for artist Meng Yu• Creative direction and set design for the movie The Boy Who Lived Before• Creative direction for the queer art and literary magazine T/OUR Magazine• DJ for a community Queer People of Color radio show, Lulu Nation, at Hollow Earth Radio• Poster design for Northwest Film Forum• Artist assistant for Naomi Kasumi• Video production and branding for Super Gay Guide

• Designed experiences span across University of Phoenix’s web pages, brand portals, e-mail, social media and digital advertising• Collaborated with art directors, designers, developers, copywriters, analytics and usability teams, and business managers to create meaningful design experiences for our present, prospective and alumni students• Lead designer for a social media campaign that reached 1.4M people with 12.6k social engagements and 1,840 submissions• Created a responsive email system that produces 70 million emails annually across all applicable email clients• Lead UI, UX and visual designer for UOP’s Continuing Education site that saw a 40% increase in RFI completions