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Experience

Oct 2024 - May 2025 - 8 mos

Avathon (x SparkCognition)

Design Lead, Manager

Led the design team to produce creative, innovative, AI-enabled solutions, built into a foundational data platform and integrated products, geared towards improving asset performance and production efficiency, and utilized by industry leaders within the renewable & traditional energy, manufacturing, aerospace and defense sectors.

Managed design resources between dispersed teams in the US and India, while contributing to product strategy and rebranding initiatives of the company’s re-organizational period.

Mar 2020 - Oct 2024 - 4 yrs 8 mos

UI/UX Designer III

Contributed to several AI-enabled, industry specific use cases with predictive/prescriptive insights for asset performance and operations.

Helped to establish and maintain an org-wide design system for cross-functional use on all customer facing product applications.

Established as the go-to designer for our partner entity, SparkCognition Government Systems, providing cohesion across design efforts.

Feb 2019 - Mar 2020 - 1 yr 2 mos

James Sharp Designs

Creative Director

Specialized in visually communicating the user experience of human interaction with digital products or services AND effectively crafting the user interface to strike visual and functional harmony that aligns with business objectives and user needs.
Improved usability, accessibility and experiences across all modern devices and platforms. Maintained cohesive and consistent brand recognition between cross-channel products and services.

Apr 2019 - Jul 2019 - 4 mos

Ziff Media Group (Offers.com)

Sr. Product Designer, Contractor

Contributed to cross-functional collaborations, executed on design deliverables and guided junior designer involvement.

Participated in design initiatives, establishing and contributing to a Design System, for guiding consistency and efficiency between the product teams assigned to the redesign and development of the popular online editorial brand, and leading authority on technology, PCMag.com.

Guided and implemented ADA compliance requirements across multiple web products, including; offers.com, bestblackfriday.com, mashable.com, and techbargains.com.

Mar 2018 - Feb 2019 - 1 yr

Workhorse Marketing

UX/UI Designer

Contributed to high-level, cross-functional collaborations for improving user experience competencies and establish usability best practices within the design team, and implementation across multiple existing projects.

Led UX/UI design of the most powerful custom football play creation tool and management system, FirstDown PlayBook.

Participated in on-site interviews with hospital lab technicians to gain process and procedure insights to inform usability and visual design improvements of the revolutionary GI scope tracking and processing system, Sympliant.

Oct 2011 - Mar 2018 - 6 yrs 4 mos

sitegoals™

UX/UI Design Lead

Managed junior designers. Led external development teams offshore. Co-led client development teams alongside internal developers. Performed quality assurance against production teams. Comprehended usability testing and user research to maximize user experience. Implemented responsive workflow techniques and adaptive content models. Plus all senior and junior level duties.

Aug 2009 - Oct 2011 - 2 yrs 1 mo

Senior UX/UI Designer

Implement design phase processes, checklists, and best practices. Integrated Axure for wireframes and prototyping. Created discovery documentation, navigation and site structure taxonomies, client presentations and interaction, flash and video assets. Integrated multiple language interfaces. Retouched photography. Ideation and design of logos. Plus all junior level duties.

Nov 2006 - Aug 2009 - 2 yrs 1 mo

Junior Designer

Worked with the industry tools, Illustrator and Photoshop. Created assets for all phases of website projects, site maps, wireframes, comps and graphic assets. Other digital design work included email templates, promotional and landing pages. Printed design, including business suit assets an illustrating diagrams.

May 2003 - Nov 2006 - 3 yrs 7 mos

intelligent DESIGN (DBA)

Freelance Designer

Designed and developed a complete website, collaborated on product designs, and provided design templates for printing on apparel for the online Christian clothing brand, DVC. Designed the program cover and T-shirt artwork for use by 1000+ members at the annual conferences for the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA).

Education

2001 - 2003

Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication

Collins College - Tempe, Arizona

Collins College, now closed, provided students with career-focused education in visual arts and design.