//Experience

Charter Communications, Greenwood Village, CO
Senior Product Designer

JUL 2020 - Present

As a Product Designer, I design products and features that directly impact the Spectrum consumer experience. I design innovative solutions by collaborating with all involved teams and supporting new and existing features across multiple applications for mobile and web. I’m also perpetually involved in reviewing and creating innovative solutions. At Charter I’m considered a subject matter expert for multiple programs & systems.

My responsibilities:

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience

• Design mockups to support product requirements

• Bring proven knowledge of user-centered design (UCD) process methods to digital applications from concept to launch

• Design information architecture and wireframes that both meet business goals and ensure a positive user experience

• Bring proven knowledge of new design techniques

• Partner with the wider design team to drive cross-platform consistency

• Modify, enhance, and implement design specifications and assets suitable for implementation

• Champion all established design patterns when applicable

• Responsible for design and wireframe reviews and brainstorming sessions to help solve problems

• Work within cross-functional teams to understand expectations, priorities, and necessary deliverables

• Lead the greater design team to respond, clarify or define specific application look and feel

• Work with the larger Design System team to continue to build out the system for the products we support

• Lead visual design for the team and suite of products

Ibotta, Inc., Denver, CO
Product Designer

FEB 2018 - APR 2020 (2yrs 3mo)

As a Product Designer, I collaborate with product managers, UX researchers, and engineers to define the interaction design of products and visualize new concepts. I am involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next product innovation to tweaking pixels right before launch.

My responsibilities:

• Lead the design of new features and products from conception through launch

• Design experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant for both mobile & web

• Partner with Creative Design and UX Content to create holistic experiences

• Effectively communicate ideas and rationale with a broad set of stakeholders

• Provide and solicit constructive feedback that drives quality and effectiveness

• Share knowledge in reviews and demos to communicate the value of good design

• Help shape a collaborative, human-centered design process

Healthgrades, Denver, CO
Senior UI/UX Designer

NOV 2014 - FEB 2018 (3yrs 4mo)

As a Healthgrades UX designer I was responsible for the ideation, design, iterations and delivery of wonderfully beautiful and meaningful experiences for our consumers.

My responsibilities:

• Participate and thrive in project ideation with other designers and product owners

• Produce design artifacts including user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, wireframes, high-fidelity comps, design prototypes, and design specifications

• Participate as a contributor in an interdisciplinary team that includes multiple tandem squads, other designers, project managers, business and brand strategists, and software developers

CQG Inc., Denver, CO
Senior UI/UX Designer

JAN 2005 - NOV 2014 (9yrs 11mo)

Provided user experience, creative design and social media consulting for CQG as well as their clients: Dow Jones, MF Global, JP Morgan, DeMark, Macquarie and ITinvest. Team included up to seven resources. Services for clients covered the user experience and creative design process, including user and market research, usability tests, wireframes, site maps and visual design. Print design services are occasionally rendered.

Open Labs, Austin, TX
Senior Interaction Designer

2002 - 2005 (3yrs)

Built prototypes of the flagship product for tradeshows and for final delivery to manufacturing. Team included up to 3 resources. Designed the company’s first website and then collaborated with the technical team to design and implement a user-centered shopping experience. Designed the flagship product’s Alpha UI spec for a touch interface.

frog design, Austin, TX
Senior Design Technologist

2000 - 2002 (2yrs)

Provided user experience, creative design, and technical collaboration for each project to completion. Team included up to seven resources. Responsible for experimentation, concept exploration, prototyping, and ideation within the creative process for designing user experiences. Collaborated closely with the creative organization to express design assets and artifacts in the form of user experience simulations, interactive prototypes, technical proof-of-concepts, and UI/presentation layer components and templates as reference material for design validation and the software engineering process.

carOrder.com, Austin, TX
HCI Specialist

1998 - 2000 (2yrs)

CarOrder.com hoped to keep overhead low by automating the car-buying process. CarOrder.com used software developed by parent company Trilogy Software Inc. in Austin that assisted car shoppers in pricing, configuring and ordering customized vehicles and automating the operation of a car dealership.

I provided user experience, creative design, and technical collaboration for each project to completion. My team included up to 4 resources. While there I was responsible for driving technology platform research and experimentation, concept exploration, prototyping, and ideation within the creative process for helping to design the overall user experience.

Avatar Technology, Austin, TX
Designer/Web Developer

1997 - 1998 (1yr)

Avatar Technology was a creative technology services company that helped its clients plan, create and manage their e-business and web application infrastructures. This was my first agency level experience. I was able to learn about and master delivering multiple solutions for multiple clients while meeting and ultimately exceeding business goals and metrics.

Photodex Corp., Austin, TX
Designer/Web Developer

1996 - 1997 (1yr)

Photodex, a now defunct software company specializing in the digital imaging market, allowed me to hone and master early front & back-end web development, print media design, video editing, graphic design, and many more skills.

Fun fact: I was also lucky enough to work for & with one of the co-founders of the PNG file format during my stint there.

WWWebServers, Austin, TX
Designer/Web Developer

1995 - 1996 (1y)

I cut my web design/development teeth at this now defunct early 90s startup. WWWebServers had ambitions to provide customers with an online website building service that was a precursor to what Squarespace is today.