• Spear-headed and conducted vision project to develop an understanding of our organization, our users, and our product needs, and to build consensus around a common vision.
• Conducted user interviews to build personas and understand needs for products and services.
• Conducted inventory and analysis of current website for usability and aesthetic redesign.
• Created a design system, with component library and style guide.
• Created Figma auto-layouts, components, variants, and styles for rapid prototyping on existing and new site designs.
• Worked with SMEs, stakeholders, and users to solve design issues.
• Conducted design reviews with rapid prototyping.
• Evangelized and built consensus for new design solutions.
• Worked with devs throughout, planning, estimating, and handing off build-ready prototypes.
• Delivered an @Nerd Talk (think “Ted Talk”) on Principle-Driven Design

• Conducted user interviews to build personas and understand needs for products and services.
• Conducted inventory and analysis of current website for usability and aesthetic redesign.
• Created a design system, with component library and style guide.
• Created Figma auto-layouts, components, variants, and styles for rapid prototyping on existing and new site designs.
• Worked with all stakeholders to solve design issues.
• Conducted design reviews with rapid prototyping.
• Evangelized and built consensus for new design solutions.
• Worked with devs throughout, planning, estimating, and handing off build-ready prototypes.

• Designed the user experience and user interface for a new website for the Safety Management Suite, a SaaS web app providing a suite of tools to manage companies’ safety and compliance needs.
• Helped to make complex data views and search tools easier to understand and use.
• Made complex navigation tasks intuitive and simple.
• Worked with the product manager, product owners, stakeholders, and the development team in continuous delivery and agile methodology, utilizing Azure DevOps.
• Designed every section to work well on all screens, including phone sizes.

• Designed the user experience and user interface for a new website for parents seeking resources for their birth through 5 children in the state of Utah.
• Designed the provider portal in which service providers will maintain their listings and manage family referrals.
• Participated in a thorough research phase, conducting deliberative sessions with parents throughout the state, which gave us a high degree of confidence in our design.
• Delivered mockups demonstrating design solutions for every aspect of the applications—discovery, services, services sub-search, articles, and the Provider Portal with its best in class referral management system.
• The project will bring Utah's system of early childhood services into alignment to provide parents with greater knowledge and choice of state and community-based services and help them overcome the many obstacles they face in acquiring those services.

As part of this talented team of developers, I worked on several projects, performing above and beyond expectations. I helped found and lead a user group for all of STG’s designers to support and grow each others’ talent. Projects include:

• Designed the CRE Mobile Toolbox mobile app.
• Implemented Google Material Design system and Apple Human Interface Guidelines, adapting and extending as needed.
• Revamped the user experience and interface for hundreds of in-house web-based applications.
• Redesigned company intranet and public website.
• Worked with the development director, product owners, stakeholders, executives, and the development team in continuous delivery and agile methodology, utilizing Jira.

• Designed and built (using PHP, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3) a variety of catalogue, e-commerce, marketing, fund-raising, and social media websites for an array of wholesale, retail, professional, and non-profit organizations.
• Designed for mobile devices from the start, as mobile-first or mobile-ready, as needed.

I ran the marketing art department in the world headquarters for the world's premier architecture, engineering, and construction management firm. With responsibility over the design of proposals, presentations, collateral materials, stationery, and web sites, I rolled out and managed brands, I put in place many standards, and I implemented automated systems for greatly-increased quality and cost control. I used HTML, CSS, JScript, and VBScript in various web site projects, intranet projects, and Outlook custom form applications.

Designed and built web sites and an array of print design materials for many in the film, music, and service industries.

Participated in a complete makeover of the corporate identities of Southern California's loved free ad paper in 8 editions, Recycler Classifieds and its sister publication PhotoBuys, a vehicle ad magazine. Responsible for a wide variety of graphic design tasks for both publications. Had an apprenticeship under Luis Quirarte, professor of typography and recognized expert in iconography.