Background
Personal Profile
Proud to have over 20 years experience as a designer (from print to web) with more than 13 years of UX/UI experience designing software and solutions, from small startups to large tech & software companies.
My focus continues to be to solve user-experience problems through elegant and simple design solutions. My vast experience has been focused around helping to distill complex problems and make them accessible for partners, collaborators, and, most importantly, users.
Personal life
Work
2019 - Present
Workday
Senior UX Design Engineer
Lead designer and mentor within the Talent organization at Workday, focusing primarily on new products/features aimed at helping workers advance in their career.
2014 - 2019
Aol/Yahoo
Senior UX Designer
Worked within the Publishing team at Oath (Aol/Yahoo/Verizon) where I was in charge of branding, UI/UX, & product design for our Publishing teams. I also created animated templates for our various Fantasy Sports apps.
2013 - 2014
Gravity.com
Senior UX/UI Designer
I was a solo designer responsible for maintaining branding, creating data visualizations for every client's user data, and designing and developing our plugins to seemlessly integrate with all client's websites.
2012 - 2013
Park Ridge Health
Lead Graphic Designer
Managed all print, web, and web-design/development for the marketing team.
2010 - 2014
Freelance Designer
Owner/Designer
Worked with a variety of non-profit and governmental agencies to provide print, marketing, and way-finding designs as well as full-service web design along with partnered developers.
2007 - 2012
The Health Adventure
Creative Director
Oversaw all marketing, branding, and outreach efforts for both daily operations as well as their capital campaign. Completed a website redesign and development, as well as implemented an online membership system.
Acquired by Park Ridge Health
2004 - 2006
Mountain Microenterprise Fund
Database Administrator
After doing an internship with them running a event program, I joined as their database administrator. I was responsible for managing all databases, overseeing training for staff who collected the data and entered the data, as well as reporting to the US Small Business Administration (SBA) for funding purposes.
2002-2005
Underwood Baking Company
Owner/Operator
During my post-college years, I trained as a baker and pastry chef in Vermont and at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. Also during this time, I learned how to build large wood-fired bread ovens. I turned these two passions into a side-project that gained noteriety throughout the mountains of the Southeast for creating the best sourdough flatbread pizzas.
1999 - 2002
Baker/Pastry Chef
Baker/Pastry Chef
I worked with a master baker in Vermont before moving back to Asheville, NC and training under a well known pastry chef before venturing out on my own to start Underwood Baking Co.
1997 - 2000
Educator
Educator
I worked at various summer camps throughout college, most notably the World Wildlife Federation's Ranger Rick camps, where I taught environmental sciences and climbing. I also worked two summers at the famous Farm and Wilderness in Vermont, focusing on farming, photography, and cheese making. I continued teaching black and white photography and film development classes for several years to private students in Vermont.