resume.
what i do.
Product design, UX/UI, Creative Consulting, Branding + Logos, Storytelling + Presentations, Print production.
how i do.
Communication and collaboration is key.
Actively listen to understand the problem.
Make decisions backed by research and sprinkled with intuition.
Fearlessly jump into the new.
Learn from the losses, celebrate the wins.
Do it all with passion.
tools i use.
Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, MS Office Suite, Keynote, Wordpress, Divi, Miro, Jira, Confluence
career.
2019 - Present
Senior Product & Experience Designer
Freelance / Contractor
2019 - 2020
Strategic Designer
Lab1886
2016 - 2019
Senior Designer
The Boston Consulting Group
2015 - 2016
Graphic Designer
Kolesnik Inc. + Rainmaker Captial
In my role as a senior contract designer, I have partnered with clients of all stages providing creative consulting and design services. Most recently I lead all design efforts in the creation of a bnpl healthcare mobile application from concept to pilot. My product design experience includes both mobile and web applications. While my focus has been in UX/product design I have also assisted in client branding, marketing, and pitch materials.
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Collaborate with clients to better understand business needs and build on solutions
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Host creative briefs that capture the business challenge and build timelines
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Run effective ideation workshops encouraging collaboration and innovation
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Understand product specifications and user psychology
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Conduct usability testing and document feedback
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Find creative ways to solve UX problems (e.g. usability, findability)
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Create brand guidelines and design systems to ensure consistency in deliverables
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Develop user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes
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Work closely with dev teams to communicate design ideas and prototypes
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Stay on top of competitor products and industry trends
Clients included: BuildMemo, Celebrity Slots, FabFitFun, FutureState, Kinship, OneSpring, Space530, 530 Seventh Avenue, SalesSource, Sonar Software, and XR Terra
Partnered and worked closely with the CEO and design team of Lab1886 USA in the creation of product designs and supporting marketing materials of new ventures for the company's investors and stakeholders. Lab1886 USA is a subsidiary of Daimler, that helps conceive, design, build and launch new products and businesses in mobility and automotive adjacent industries.
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Served as the lead designer and managed teams for multi-million dollar proposals and RFPs
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Designed custom presentations for Fortune 500 companies and world-renowned brands
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Designed various graphics for global projects
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Attended an exclusive worldwide partners meeting designing quick turn requests under pressure
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Translated business language, processes and more into engaging visual stories
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Supported all design decisions with creative, strategic and/or business reasoning
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Pitched creative concepts, mock ups and discuss ideas to internal and external clients
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Executed complex and ambiguous edits with minimal direction
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Lead in redesigning an internal electronic newsletter that is seen by all of the business services team
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Designed several mobile screens for occasional UX requests
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Mentored junior designers
Contracted to design marketing materials for various venture backed start-ups, which were used to raise funds and to sell and market the businesses products and services.
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Built pitch decks for seed and series A Funding rounds for multiple companies that went on to receive funding
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Guided crowdsourced logo tournaments, ensuring optimization of designer time and submission quantity and quality
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Designed sales materials, which oftentimes required doing market research in order to ensure that the pitch was honed for each vertical into which the companies were selling
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Hired by various companies to redesign their websites
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Graphic design work for product promotion and branding
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Managing and promoting Amazon seller account for clients
education.
2018
General Assembly
2011-2015
Georgia State
University
Completed a 10-week course diving into industry standards for UX Design. The course guides through the entire UX process for a digital product of choice. The process began by identifying a problem, interviewing our target audience, and conducting competitive analysis. Following an agile methodology, the data was used to create user personas, sitemaps, user flows, sketches, and low/high fidelity prototypes followed by usability testing. Gained basic knowledge of Sketch and InVision Studios.
Bachelors of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing
Minor in Hospitality Administration