Professional Experience

Principle Product Designer, Rue Gilt Groupe (2021 – Present)
Remote

User Experience Designer, Amazon Web Services ( 2020 – 2021)
Seattle, WA

• Created user flows, wireframes, sketches, comps and prototypes to define mobile user experiences and inform strategic business decisions.

• Built partnerships with Product Management and Technology to define and execute mobile UX strategy across multiple cross-functional teams.

Senior UX Designer, Nordstrom (2014 – 2020)
Seattle, WA

• Created user flows, wireframes, sketches, comps and prototypes to define omni-channel user experiences and inform strategic business decisions.

• Built partnerships and define UX strategy across multiple cross-functional teams. 

Senior Mobile UI/UX Designer, Big Fish Games (2008 – 2014)
Seattle, WA 

• Created highly usable e-commerce product interfaces across multiple devices to help improve customer ease-of-use while advancing overall business goals and product objectives. 

• Produced wireframes, comps and UI prototypes to help inform strategic product and development decisions.

Senior Graphic Designer, Gas Powered Games (2006 – 2008)
Redmond, WA

• Designed and produced graphics for the company’s various web properties

• Responsible for visual design of user interfaces for the Supreme Commander franchise and GPGnet online service

• Designed the company’s marketing, promotional, corporate and online collateral

Assistant Art Director, Seattle Weekly (2004 – 2006)
Seattle, WA

• Designed and produced weekly alternative newspaper

• Art directed, designed and produced graphics for an online portal site

• Shot various editorial photo assignments

Art Director, Polygon Magazine (2003 – 2004)
Knoxville, TN 

• Art directed, designed and produced monthly electronic gaming magazine

• Managed workflow and coordinated design staff, freelancers and printers

• Assessed and managed design needs of marketing and sales departments

Senior Designer, Asylum (2001 – 2003)
Chicago, IL 

• Designed and produced various print collateral for the firm’s medical, manufacturing and marketing clients

• Designed the firm’s marketing, promotional and online collateral

Senior Designer, ZuluSports, Inc. (2000)
San Francisco, CA 

• Art directed, designed and produced graphics for an online portal site

• Developed production and workflow process for editorial graphics creation

• Assessed and managed design needs of marketing department and executive team

Assistant Art Director, PC Gamer Magazine (1998 – 2000)
San Francisco, CA

• Designed and produced monthly electronic gaming magazine

• Designed various print collateral for marketing and circulation departments

Lettering Artist Intern, Hallmark Cards, Inc. (1997 – 1998)
Kansas City, MO

• Designed typography for Hallmark’s line of Seasonal cards

• Designed original typeface for Hallmark’s internal type design department

Awards

Nordstrom Cash Call (2019)
Anniversary VIP Experience

AAN AltWeekly Awards (2006)
Web site, 1st place

AAN AltWeekly Awards (2005)
Editorial layout, 2nd place

SPJ Pacific Northwest
Excellence in Journalism (2005)
Illustration, 1st place

Graphic Design USA Award (2002) 
RSNA 2002 Advance Registration

Stanford University 
Web Design Competition (2001)
1st place

Dorris Fair Carey KU Design
Scholarship (1995 – 1998)

Education

The University of Kansas (1998)
School of Fine Art
BFA Visual Communications