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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• Generative AI enablement with AWS Q for Business, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon QnABot, and Amazon Lex Web UI• Project work collaboration with Github, JIRA, and Confluence• Interactive, high fidelity wireframe documents in Figma and directly in HTML prototypes• Producing detailed functional requirements documents to support development• Collaborating with peers and outside contracting firms in order to develop UX/CX strategy

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 • Presentation of usability test results to project teams• Synced functional requirements documentation with prototypes through the software development life-cycle• Supervised work activities to ensure that they are well-performed, coordinated among team members and consistent with the approved work plan.Business Analysis:• Responsible for business and technical requirements, analysis, and high level design.• Elicited, documented, validated, and formally presented Requirements Documents to stakeholders.• Researched requirements through stakeholders interviews, document analysis, and written questionnaires.• Developed and analyzed data/workflows and defined the scope, financial projections and Cost/Benefit analysis. • Evaluated processes to improve cost, quality and efficiency.• Challenged existing practices through future state mapping, vision clarification, and streamlining operations.

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.• Managed and evaluated a staff of up to 40 employees.• Prepared and administered a $1.3M budget.• Compiled data and presented regular reports for boards and partner organizations.• Software development experience in relational database software to support custom data warehousing (primarily Microsoft Access). • Administrative responsibilities included management of wireless networks, LAN and WAN administration, and NAS management.• Administrative experience in Windows Server and Microsoft Exchange Server.

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.• Software development experience in relational database software to support custom data warehousing (primarily Microsoft Access). • Website development and maintenance including launch and redesign projects.• Administrative responsibilities included management of wireless networks, LAN and WAN administration, and NAS management.• Administrative experience in Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.• Continued responsibilities from previous engagement with Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute.

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.