I lead Design and User Research at a startup that has created an app that provides in-home balance training programs for older adults. Responsibilities include: building consensus amongst Product, Engineering and Marketing, building conceptual designs and prototypes, creating and managing a design library, and delivering production ready design artifacts to the Engineering team.

Design Lead within Wholesale Payments

Bootstrapping an early startup venture. Responsible for product design and user experience, involved in product management and strategy.

Worked with Product, Engineering and Design teams to deliver user research findings, conceptual and detailed design artifacts for internal tools.

I led the User Experience Team at Apervita, an application authoring platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables healthcare payers and providers to build, collaborate, and share algorithms and data.

At Roundarch, I led small teams of information architects and visual designers to design applications for web,mobile, and desktop for fortune 500 companies.

My work typically consisted of doing user research, including user interviews, persona and scenario development, mental models and conceptual designs, maybe a prototype to illicit feedback from business owners and end users alike. After a conceptual model has been agreed upon, we would move to detailed wireframes, with visual design often being developed concurrently. Our teams work in an iterative fashion in agile sprints. In addition, I mentor junior designers both in and outside the context of client work and help the recruiting staff evaluate user experience candidates.

While working at DRAFT FCB, my focus was primarily on consumer facing marketing websites, ranging from large corporate websites, to small brand microsites.

I worked an extended stint doing design and information architecture for Kohler and Patagonia with the fine folks at the Royal Order.

I was the department lead, responsible for consumer website redesign, creative implementation of day to day merchandise updates, and email campaigns. Implemented search engine optimization programs, and internal CMS for creative updates.

Worked on a team of four user experience consultants and and information architect sto create wireframes and user flow diagrams for redesign of online flight booking, itinerary management and loyalty membership management tools for United's consumers.

Lotsa stuff here, co-founded a company with my pal, John Fischer, dabbled in illustration, and some extended stints making wireframes for the airline booking vertical.

University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
BFA Graphic Design

Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England, UK
Visual Studies

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Student at Large