Freelance Consultant

Contractor for Hire | September 2015 – Present | Anywhere, USA

Digital Product Design

  • Oversee all phases of product design: from research, strategy and design to testing, iteration, development and launch.
  • Produce comprehensive documentation that reflects critical thinking and problem solving in the form of user flows, scenarios, interaction patterns, annotated wireframes and functional prototypes.
  • Stay current in trends, best practices and technology to design both platform-specific and agnostic products for desktop, mobile and tablet.

Leadership/Operations

  • Lead teams of junior user experience designers to produce client-facing design deliverables.
  • Facilitate collaboration between user experience, creative, copy and development disciplines on large cross-functional teams.
  • Work on fast-paced projects with compressed timelines, without compromising product or deliverable quality.

User Research/Usability

  • Compose scripts for user interviews and synthesizing findings to identify user needs and establish archetypes.
  • Develope user personas and scenarios based on user research.
  • Conduct concept/usability testing, and analyze results to reveal unmet user needs and design flaws.

Functional Skills

  • Perform functional decompositions and competitive analyses to determine feature gaps and enhancement opportunities.
  • Write and execute test scripts to identify and prioritize problematic issues within complex workflows on enterprise websites.

Clients

Profoot Logo

Profoot (2016)

Responsive web experience redesign

Pace University Logo

Pace University (2016)

Responsive web experience redesign for Continuing Professional Education

Profoot. Logo

Ilkmade (2015)

Research and strategy for new product (scheduled to launch Fall 2016)


How I Got Here

Associate Director, Experience Strategy & Design

Isobar | May 2008 – August 2015 | New York, NY

Clients

NBCU Logo

NBC Universal, TV Everywhere (2014-2015)

Research, support and design of tv viewing frameworks for NBCU brands, including NBC, USA, SyFy, Bravo, and E!, across all TV Everywhere platforms (iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV)

USA Logo

USA Network (2014-2015)

Research, strategy and design for responsive website redesign

ABG Logo

Avis Budget Group (2013)

Experience redesign for Avis and Budget mobile websites

HBO Logo

HBO (2009-2013)

HBO & Cinemax website redesigns; HBO GO product integration; Android mobile app design

Healthways Logo
Herff Jones Logo
Carat Logo
Bloomberg Logo
Northern Trust Logo

Senior Experience Designer

Mansueto Ventures | January 2006 – May 2008 | New York, NY

Properties

Inc. Logo

Inc.com

Research, support and design of tv viewing frameworks for NBCU brands, including NBC, USA, SyFy, Bravo, and E!, across all TV Everywhere platforms (iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV)

Fast Company Logo

FastCompany.com

Research, strategy and design for responsive website redesign


Where I Give Back

Horses of Hope Logo

Horses of Hope Oregon

An Equine Therapy Experience

When I'm not on therapy walks with clients or caring for the horses, I'm helping this incredible organization with their digital needs.

Heartland Humane Society Logo

Heartland Humane Society

An Open-Admission Animal Shelter

Walking dogs, socializing cats, taking photos, assisting the medical team with intakes—whatever the animals need, I'm there for them!

For Animals Logo

For Animals

A TNR & Rescue Group

I spent 6 years volunteering for this wonderful group, and adopted 2 of my cats from them! I still help with website support.