Experience
Contract Senior UX Designer at Grapple - London, UK.
Feb 2019 - May 2019
- Extensive UX Research
- User Interviewing
- User Research Workshop Facilitation
- Wireframing
- Information Architecture
- Content and Design Audit
Contract Senior UX Designer at John Lewis Partnership - London, UK.
August 2018 - October 2018
- Researched & Validated Home Delivery Service Proposals for the Ventures Team
Senior UX Designer at Moovel North America (Daimler Mercedes) - Portland, OR.
December 2016 - December 2017 (1yr)
- Lead UX Designer on a major mobile product while Mentoring a Junior UX Designer
- Championed extensive research & analysis
- Gathered use cases & requirements from Product Managers & Owners
- Organized & held Usability Studies, Workshops, Interviews and Internal company design reviews
- Held a weekly design team workshop where new ideas & strategies could be reviewed and critiqued
- Interviewed & gathered information from internal company stakeholders to aid with strategy & planning
Senior UX Designer at Digital Karma - Los Angeles, CA.
June 2015 - December 2016 (1yr 6m)
- Lead UX Designer & Lead UI Designer on various mobile & web projects
- Attended and held client meetings, workshops & presentations
- Conducted Usability Studies & Interviews
- Mentored for contracted junior UX Designers
- Guided the client to define their business goals & value statement
- Worked in an Agile environment conducting morning stand-ups, sprint planning & backlog grooming
Co-instructor of the UX Design Immersive program at General Assembly - Los Angeles, CA.
2015 (2 groups)
- Instructor's Assistant teaching UX Design to groups of 25 students every 10 weeks
- Supported the students with expert advice, direct student coaching and creative inspiration
- Created and conducted workshops that taught specific UX Design skills such as Wireframing in Sketch & Omnigra
ffle, Prototyping in Axure/InVision, & Coding in HTML/CSS/jQuery
- Participated in 7 hour UX Bootcamp Workshops as an Instructor's Assistant to Product Owners and
Entrepreneurs
Contract Senior UX Designer at Disney Glendale, CA.
December 2014 - June 2015 (7 months)
- Lead UX Designer on a high profile internal tablet & web project
- Evangelized UXD to stakeholders & owners at project kick-off meetings
- Attended & held Agile Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming and Iterative Design
- Provided solutions to business challenges using wireframes, prototypes & statistical user research
Freelance UX Designer including UI/CSS/HTML at Antistandard
December 1999 - December 2014 (15 yrs)
- An outlet for consultation, experimentation, mentoring & client project work where I explored all facets of UI & UX Design in an entrepreneurial setting as a freelancer.
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Education
AJ & Smart - Berlin, DE.
2019
- Design Sprint Masterclass
General Assembly - Los Angeles, CA.
2014
- User Experience Design - 10 week immersive
British Columbia Institute of Technology / BCIT - Vancouver, Canada.
2013
- Associate Certificate of Graphic Design - Graphic Design
Edith Cowan University, Australia - Perth, Australia.
1999 - 2001
- Bachelor of Science Degree - Multimedia (Coding, UI Design, Animation, Content Writing)
Skills & Expertise
Tools
- Sketch
- Invision, Flinto & Axure RP
- Adobe CC
- Lucid Chart & OmniGraffle
UX Process
- User Research, Interviewing & Testing
- Group Ideation & Inclusive Design
- Designing & Facilitating Workshops
- Data Analysis
UI Design & Coding
- Mobile, Product & Service Design
- Responsive Web Design
- HTML & CSS
- Basic jQuery & PHP
