Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy

I work with a small but mighty team crafting the tools that our artist use everyday to bring stories to life.

• Express design concepts through storyboards, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and full-fidelity mockups using Figma. Engage with engineers, designers, and product experts in highly iterative development cycles and prototyping workshops.

• Maintain and develop design systems and patterns; incorporate interactive prototypes into components and team repositories; and help to establish a project and process organization system for cohesive file management.

• Lead the design roadmap to forge a shared vision for the future of our Industry Cloud Solution Center. Partner closely with research, content, product management, and engineering to align on deliverables and timelines.Transformed a complex, 91-page document into an intuitive user experience to achieve a 96% satisfaction score.

• Simplified complex functions for product managers and engineers by designing an internal tool to help the Microsoft Industry Cloud teams publish apps to our customer-facing portal.

• Educated non-design undergraduate students on the foundations of communication design.

• Planned course syllabus and projects, developed and presented lectures covering core design concepts, led group discussions and facilitated critiques of student work, as well as provided one-on-one feedback

• Art direction and design work across multiple mediums including print, social media, digital/web, non-traditional, and broadcast.

• Effectively communicated concepts to both creative directors and clients for a wide range of campaigns and industries

• Worked closely with photographers and video production companies on campaign deliverables.

Graphic Design, UX Design, UI Design, and hand-lettering.

• Designed user flows, assisted with the user experience, created visual branding, and worked with engineers and developers to prototype mobile and tangible interactions.

• Designed and hand lettered a variety of projects from branding to installation art.

• Worked with existing brands to design a wide range of deliverables from print to web.

Clients included: Deeplocal, Loaded Creative, Enginehouse 25, Edinboro University, Giant Eagle, and The Society of North American Goldsmiths

Graduated May 2018

Focused on the intersection of inclusive design, futuring, and emerging tech. These studies led me to discover physical prototype, speculative design, and the larger implication of design and technology.

Graduated May 2012

Formed a solid foundation for Gestalts design principals, typography, grids and hierarchy. This is where I first discovered my love of design tools, and learning the short cuts to make using them more bearable.

Graduated May 2012

Focused on understanding the earring’s form and relationship to our face and neck — how they move, how much they weigh, the sounds they make.