Personal Profile

  • Looking for a challenging user experience engineering opportunity in a creative web-based environment with opportunity for growth and advancement.
  • Possess a creative, entrepreneurial spirit with a hard working attitude and ability to motivate others.
  • Ability to effectively communicate project goals and specifications with creative team, developers and project stakeholders.
  • Continuing research on new user experience methods and design ideas to increase user performance, satisfaction and adoption of new applications.

Professional Experience

Getty Images, Madison, WI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2009 – Present
UI/UX Engineer and Creative Support

Working with Getty Images development team to modernize the presentation layer development practices for vertical market image directory frameworks.

UI/UX Engineer:

  • Lead the efforts to re-factor the application’s presentation layer for a cleaner, more semantic markup approach.
  • Lead UI Engineering team for the re-development of Photos.com per acquisition of assets.
  • Assisted in the process development for creative design in an agile environment.
  • Collaborate with the web team, design team and project stakeholders to assist in the creation of user experience specs, user flows, wire frames, mockups and interactive prototypes.

Acumium, Madison, WI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .October 2002 – December 2008
UI/UX Engineer, Creative Designer, and Project manager

Utilize a broad range of career talents at this start up Content Management Solution provider.

UI/UX Engineer:

  • Work with project stakeholders, internal and external, to identify scope of the application.
  • Identify use case workflows and common process tasks that will be instrumental to the success and adoption of the application.
  • Provide workflow diagrams, UI examples and UX prototypes to document and communicate project visual development specification.
  • Work with development engineers to maintain functional scope.
  • Provide, or work with creative designers to execute high-resolution user interfaces to compliment the desired user experience.
  • Mentored team of designers and engineers in best practices of presentation layer design and development.
  • Played a key role in the design and user experience development for a web-based application designed to manage the entire directory database for an internationally accreditation organization.

Project Manager:
In a fast paced, customer driven environment, rise to the challenge of managing multiple projects for mid-sized to large companies with competing deadlines.

  • Involved in all phases of project lifecycle. Discovery, Design, Development and Deployment.
  • Utilize Agile management best practices and a ‘web 2.0’ approach for clear and effective communication between my team and project stakeholders to complete projects on time and on budget.
  • Responsible and accountable for project timeline, managing assets, schedules and change management.

PortalMedia, Janesville, WI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .November 2000 – October 2002
Web Designer

  • Served as Web Designer and Project Manager for this start-up web media company.
  • Developed and executed client based (brochure) web projects.
  • Was responsible for individual project and account management, including requirement collection, work definition, graphic design and HTML production.
  • Participated in the design and user experience development for a web-based application designed to manage the entire directory database for an international accreditation organization.

Publisher’s Toolbox, Madison, WI . . . . . . . . . . .January 2000 to August 2000
Creative Designer
Served as a Creative Designer for innovative desktop publishing solutions provider. A sister company with Artville, there was a great resource of talented creative designers as mentors.

  • Designer of catalog production and other marketing/promotional materials.
  • Environment allowed me to graduate to a new level of creative maturity, encouraging me to think outside the box of the traditional design.
  • Played a key role in streamlining catalog production to print process.
  • Involved in my first large-scale web development project creating the first eCommerce site fort the company.

Scholastic Experience

Inacom, Madison, WI
PM for IT Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .February 2008 to February 2008

M.A.T.C., Madison, WI
Visual Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1996 to May 1998

Software Experience

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver)
Office suites (MS Office, Apple iWork)
VersionOne Agile Project Management Suite
HTML/XHTML, CSS, ASP, PHP
Familiar with Script.aculo.us, jQuery and Yahoo! User Interface Libraries