Skills


Agile UX

  • Journey mapping
  • Service blueprints
  • Information Architecture
  • Userflow design
  • Design sprint and cross-team workshop planning & facilitation
  • Stakeholder & SME collaboration

Prototype development & User Research

  • High-fidelity interactive prototypes
  • User interviews & prototype testing
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Heuristic evaluations
  • Analytics distillation

Design Management & Operations

  • UX integration with SAFe Agile development teams
  • Process documentation
  • Tool assessment, procurement, and management
  • Design system development

History


Meijer

5/19 - present

lead ux & ui designer

  • Led a team of 8+ UX and UI designers through the design process and integrated with SAFe Agile development teams to create web and app retail experiences
  • Managed team operations across toolsets, workflows, and collaboration with development partners
  • Created alignment across product value streams and marketing and merchandise partners
  • Assessed business objectives and built strategic roadmaps to provide continuous, incremental improvements

Priority Health

10/17 - 5/19

digital experience manager

  • Managed team of UX & UI designers through production of marketing and web tools for members, providers, agents, and employers
  • Developed and refined processes for updating content across the digital platforms
  • Expanded the team’s capabilities, leveraging existing tools and implementing new workflows

Priority Health

11/16 - 10/17

sr. ux/ui designer

  • Articulated UX design process through numerous projects Improved member engagement and satisfaction in tools and web experiences
  • Developed detailed set of personas based on qualitative, quantitative, and analytic research
  • Designed responsive views of tools and worked with development teams through production
  • Provided code snippets and css samples to ensure design consistency
  • Defined and maintained a pattern library for visual consistency

Freelance

7/15 - present

technology consultant

  • Design and develop technology solutions for events, create scope and estimates for production
  • Produce animations to support video edits including text animation, motion & camera tracking, and 3d effects
  • Develop Wordpress supported, multi-page websites
  • Consult on best practices for web and graphic production

Grand Rapids Christian High School

1/12

winterim instructor - videogame programming

  • Designed and led course to teach a group of 20 high schoolers programming
  • Created course syllabus, presented lectures, led lab activities, and assessed student performance

designvox

4/08 - 6/15

ux developer

  • Developed and maintained custom interactive applications for multi-monitor systems, touch screens, gestural interfaces, and client-side applications
  • Directed live presentation events with hundreds of participants
  • Created animations using non-linear tools and through code for interactive applications and video productions
  • Produced detailed infographics, illustrations, retouched photos, and output graphics for print and web

Full Sail University

4/06 - 2/08

Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts and Design

Salutatorian of Class Certificate of Excellence

Costco Wholesale

8/05 - 1/06

marketing graphic designer

  • Updated and maintained costco.com product photos
  • Directed the process to update site-wide library of product photography
  • Worked with marketing team to create national delivery truck fleet imagery and in-store signage

Obie Media Corp.

8/04 - 11/04

marketing graphic designer

  • Prepared new-market contract portfolios used to build the network of outdoor advertising space
  • Created in-house ‘hoopla’ and marketing material for sales team
  • Updated sales information sheets and records

Linn Benton C. C.

10/02 - 6/04

Associate of Applied Science in Digital Imaging & Prepress Technology

me :)

hi! i'm aaron.

A user experience developer with more than 12 years experience creating interactive applications and tools for B2B and B2C solutions. Diligent, efficient, and empathetic, with a diverse skill set that includes user journey exploration, HTML/CSS/JS web development, 2D animation, technology management, and graphic production. I've successfully expanded business capabilities and built innovative new technologies into daily workflow. I'm a constant learner with a passion for understanding and patiently teaching others.

Outside of creating interactive experiences, I love being in the outdoors with my kids: camping, hiking, skiing, disc golf and biking. I enjoy brewing beer, building things for my kids, and board games. Our family loves to craft and explore new places


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