( Experience, Education, Skills & Achievements )
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Professional Profile /
I’m an accomplished, trend aware creative with a proven ability to transform concepts into a
variety of media. I have 11+ years of experience, primarily in entertainment & music, where
my reductive, fashionable aesthetic shines. My specialties lie in interaction & visual design,
and I have a diverse background that includes work for brands such as Amazon, Windows
Phone 7 & Bing.
Qualifications /
+ Over 11 years of interaction & visual design experience.
+ 5 plus years experience designing & implementing emarketing & ecommerce features;
strategic layout, email marketing, social networking, online advertising.
+ Experience developing mockup/prototype interaction designs.
+ Knowledge of how to design to best solve business & user problems.
+ Substantive understanding of current UI/UX best practices.
+ Experience working with user-centered design/human factors specialists.
+ Specialist in Microsoft’s "Metro" design style.
+ Solid conceptual, analytical, verbal and visual communication skills.
Artistic & Technical Expertise /
+ Advanced Adobe CS & practical knowledge of industry-standard software packages.
+ Intermediate HTML & CSS coding & coding.
+ Design fundamentals include information design & industry UI standards.
+ Qualified understanding of Javascript, Ajax, PHP & Silverlight.
+ Digital & analog photography, video & illustration.
Experience /
Amazon "Student" Mobile App Interaction Design (for Filter Digital) | Seattle, Wa | SEPT _ OCT 2011
+ Using screenshots from existing Amazon Mobile App, and an internally created delta document,
I worked with the team to create an annotated wireframe document detailing necessary UI/UX
changes to the app for the upcoming port from iPhone to Android.
Mobile App Interaction Design (for Filter Digital) | Seattle, Wa | SEPT _ OCT 2011
+ Delivered user flow charts for proposed app revamp.
+ Project currently NDA.
Windows Phone 7 "Mango" eMarketing Design (for Filter Digital) | Seattle, Wa | AUG _ OCT 2011
+ Storyboarded numerous animated banner ad proposals.
Microsoft "Visual Studio" Icon Design (for Filter Digital) | Seattle, Wa | JAN _ JUL 2011
+ Expansive "Metro" style update to 3,000 + icons of IDE application.
+ Leadership roles included design, production & QA.
Microsoft IEB Collective Studio (via Filter Digital) | Redmond, Wa | AUG _ DEC 2010
+ Created "Metro" styled graphics for Windows Phone 7 "Help & How-To" web pages.
+ Design work for Zune.net & Zune Marketplace.
Microsoft "Discover Bing" UI/UX (for Filter Digital) | Seattle, wa | JUL _ AUG 2010
+ Conceived multiple UI/UX design solutions for DiscoverBing.com.
+ Delivered diverse wire frames, user flow charts & UI comps.
Popcap Games Visual Design (via Filter Digital) | Seattle, Wa | JUN 2010
+ Social marketing UI designs & concepts for Zuma Blitz & Bejeweled Blitz.
RYZ Wear | Portland, OR | 2008
+ Freelance design for community based design footwear and apparel company founded by
former president of Adidas America, Rob Langstaff.
+ Defined storefront merchandising, email marketing & social network design.
+ Explored "street-art" inspired guerilla-marketing campaign.
MotoSport.com (via Filter Digital) | Portland, OR | 2006 _ 2008
+ Created online, print, apparel & photographic content over 4 distinct Powersport brands.
+ Produced & aided in coordination of weekly retail & promotional emails.
+ Email redesign improved navigation & functionality, decreased 'opt-outs', & dramatically
increased click-through & sales rates.
Portland Trail Blazers (via Right Brain Resource) | Portland, OR | JAN _ MAY 2006
+ Member of team responsible for revamp of the franchise's website.
+ Concepted & created social network submission flow, landing pages & site graphics.
Rumblefish | Portland, OR | 1999 _ 2006
+ Intermittent freelance design work for sonic branding company.
+ Initiated corporate identity redesign which, according to founder & CEO Paul Anthony
"...marked the turning point in which we were able to build equity in our brand."
Education /
University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | 2002
+ Bachelor of Science, Art
PNCA | Portland, OR | 2005
+ Multimedia design courses