Aquent x Adobe Studios - Frictionless UX. Designing seamless interactions for actions that require moving from one product to another within Adobe's product suite.

As the cofounder of Strangelove, I helped scale my company from 2 people to over 30. Strangelove has generated $10M in revenue for the past two years. I am directly in charge of the 10 person Front-end product team responsible for all user facing experiences built by our company. I also lead the naming and branding exercise for Strangelove itself.

TL;DR: I managed the Ubisoft Design System and designed one-off product experience for the Customer Experience Team. Responsibilities:• Gather critical insights about what Ubisoft website visitors need, using creative research methodology (surveys, user interviews, heatmaps + recordings, web analytics reports, etc.) • Create user workflows, narratives, and UX design documentation to capture and articulate complex ideas, drive decisions and standardize our process• Create wireframes and persuasively present recommendations for usability and functionality to internal teams and partners• Work with Ubisoft's web producers, developers and analysts to design A/B and multivariate tests to continually refine and optimize our page layouts, navigation systems and conversion flows• Provide expert recommendations to internal teams and external agency partners to ensure the quality of the execution of our UX strategy• Regularly seek to understand new industry technologies, trends, tools, and methods – and share that information back out to the team

Collaborates closely with digital marketing clients to identify and solve customer needs using the latest in design strategy and user experience methodologies. Past Clients: Mozilla, Ebay, Paypal, and a number under NDA.Responsibilities:-Develop new business relationships with prospective clients.-Translate business problems into design-driven solutions.-Identify ux design opportunities based on strategic analysis. -Facilitate and lead product design sprints. -Lead cross-functional design teams.-Educate clients on latest trends in user experience/ interaction design. -Present design solutions to client suite. (Including c-level)-Manage client feedback.-Manage the Pylon brand.-Recruit contractors to produce high fidelity design documentation. -Accounting/Administrational duties.

Tyler floated between Activision, Levis, Bud Light, Verizon, Best Buy and others. Tyler was the UX “fixer”. No project was too big or complicated for him to organize. He presented major design deliverables including interactive prototypes. He designed web experiences and brainstormed concepts for Brands such as Call of Duty, Live in Levis, Destiny and many more. He was also a keynote speaker at AKQA’s Insights conference for C-suite clients.

As lead Experience Designer/Information Architect for all Chevrolet digital assets, Tyler was responsible for interface design and information architecture on various Chevrolet properties, including Chevy.com and campaign sites like the Corvette C7 reveal website .

As a part of an integrated creative team, I am charged with coming up with new interactive experiences that directly solve brand-related problems. Primarily focused on US Navy.

Awarded a Master's of Science in Communication. Specifically, Creative Technology. I studied Interactive Design, Mobile Prototyping, and IA/UX, and creative concepting methodologies around design and technology.

Tyler likes motorcycles, so he worked H-D on Mobile Platform Development for his summer internship between years at the Brandcenter. (Concept Development, Strategy and UX design)Results: Influenced live design for the HD-1 CustomizerPresented new innovation ideas in rider to rider communications.

I graduated with dual degrees in Economics and Philosophy, and a Business Minor.

•Live Sales Calls: Presented the Social Media value proposition to education clients. Won new business for the Social Media Team.•Social Media Best Practices, Local Vertical: analyzed research, created presentation which educated the Local teams on how to sell the Social Media ad inventory•Branded Entertainment Competitive Analysis: Collected and presented data on competitive ventures into branded entertainment. •Education Vertical Display Analysis: researched education clients total digital display ad activity, and provided new opportunities for education team.

•Performed needs assessment sales calls, designed and presented a mock pitch for the Porsche advertising campaign.•Created Agency Roll-Up Table to help identify key opportunities across Google’s product ecosystem.•Contributed to brainstorming sessions for viral ad campaigns including Absolut Vodka•Gained technical knowledge of all Google products.

I sold CutCo knives through cold-calling to generate leads, and provided bonuses for referrals. I presented the CutCo sales pitch in homes hundreds of times that summer. Only 2 no-sales for all sales presentations.