About Me

My Background
As an experienced UX Designer, I have been fortunate to have worked on a wide variety of projects, with many Fortune 500 companies. Contracting has allowed me to work in many different roles, on a wide range of complex projects and industries, in a relatively short amount of time.

My Skills
User Experience • Design Strategy • Visual Design • Concept Development • Illustration • Prototyping • Basic CSS • Developer Hand off Leadership & Mentoring • Agile • Calm in the Storm

My Creative Process
“What is your creative process?”. Ah, the most popular of UX questions, and an important one as well. I am happy to announce that my answer, and focus, has shifted over the years, as my career has developed.

My current answer: I believe in the Human-Centered Design approach. I feel it is transparent for stakeholders, easy to consume, and every step reverts back to the original empathetic problem. I can crank out features, but if those features aren’t tested in some capacity, then they don’t serve the customer’s needs. I’m not designing for myself. The Human-Centered Design approach contains a running list of checks and balances.

In a perfect scenario of time and space, I believe in the full UX voyage; research, interviews, competitive analysis, drawing, erasing, white-boarding, working with teammates, wireframes, testing and prototyping. I love the variety of it all! If I need to build something from a CEO’s scribbled napkin, I enjoy rolling up my sleaves and taking the challenge. Why not even release a few bobcats in the room, just to make it a little more interesting?

It’s Not All About Work…
I am a self-proclaimed grill master, hobby mixologist, passionate hockey fan, a rocker with a deep well of useless music facts, a kayaker, and a Doughnut Friday supporter and participant.