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Des Moines, Iowa

• Design System/User Interface Design/User Experience:
• Provide strategic product direction and engineer mentoring for the long term health of an enterprise design system
• Design System focused front end development, deep in the weeds using HTML, Typescript, and CSS
• Development tooling experience including Lit, Github Copilot, Sass, and ESlint (including writing custom rules)
• Build tooling such as Nx, Vite, Lerna, and Babel
• Cloud enablement experience in AWS

Clive, IA

• User Interface Design/User Experience:
• Rapid prototyping for Agile development in Bootstrap
• Created interactive, high fidelity wireframe documents and HTML prototypes utilizing industry standard tools such as Axure
• Produced detailed functional requirements documents to support development
• Collaborated with peers and outside contracting firms in order to develop UX strategy
• Conducted usability testing to evaluate user behaviors, attitudes and emotions, and validate design

Des Moines, IA

• Website development and maintenance including site launch, redesign projects, and analytics monitoring (Google Analytics).
• Developed video and Flash media elements for the web site to communicate the vision and mission of the organization to members and community stakeholders
• Served as liaison between business stakeholders and technology resources.
• Managed strategic planning project at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa to identify the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, then developed and reinforced the organizational values set within the organization.
• Analyzed administrative systems and implemented accepted recommendations in order to reduce expense and improve efficiency in human resources, accounting, and payroll functions.
• Elicited requirements and developed artifacts for multiple projects including a revision of the company’s Employee Handbook.

Des Moines, IA

• Served as liaison between business stakeholders and technology resources.
• Experience developing concepts and designs for a variety of technologies including web and video.
• Planned, developed, tested, and implemented in-house student tracking database software in alignment with overall business strategy.
• Utilized research skills, problem solving and creativity to develop interactive, engaging curricula for the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute's Youth Leadership Initiative course.
• Documented program requirements and facilitated implementation.
• Coordinated team members and ensured delivery of program requirements.

Des Moines, IA

• Designed and maintained organization web presence and social media interactions
• Planned, developed, tested, and implemented in-house student tracking database software in alignment with overall business strategy.
• Utilized research skills, problem solving and creativity to develop interactive, engaging curricula for the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute's Youth Leadership Initiative course.
• Documented program requirements and facilitated implementation.
• Coordinated team members and ensured delivery of program requirements.

Des Moines, IA

• Assisted director with student engagement, program development, and event coordination.
• Chaperoned the Iowa delegation to the national competition at the University of Maryland.

Johnston, IA

• Experience developing concepts and designs for a variety of technologies including print and video.

Pella, IA

• Redesigned Pella Corporation's Architectural Design Manual.