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