Skills

Doing Good at Work
  • Growth mindset believer
  • Active listener
  • Clear communicator
  • Systems thinker
  • Atomic designer
  • Explorative Coder
Software
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Affinity
  • Spline Design 3D
  • Blender
  • Unity
Dev Technologies
  • Wordpress / PHP
  • jQuery / JavaScript / React
  • HTML5 / Markdown
  • CSS3 / SCSS / SASS
  • Git / Subversion
  • NPM / Gulp / Bash Terminal

Professional Experience

Tenrec Inc. | Lead UI Designer and Developer | Remote | August 2016 - Present
  • Create clean, usable, and beautiful UI designs from wireframe to prototype
  • Build solid, user-focused, accessible markup, efficient styling, and integrate 3rd party APIs and services
  • Maintain, improve, and optimize WordPress sites with latest plugins, scripts, and design updates
Freelance Graphic Design | Portland, OR | November 2014 - January 2016
  • Branding and graphic design for Greetings From, an adventure/utility gear company
  • Nonprofit marketing and graphic design for Race Talks and Lawn Life
  • Art direction, graphic design, illustration, production and performance for The Wunder Womb.
One Spirit Learning Alliance | Head of Communications | New York, NY | August 2013 - September 2014
  • Created and maintained look and voice of all communications
  • Executed content updates for onespiritinterfaith.org using Wordpress CMS
  • Managed all Constant Contact e-mail and social media engagement
Freelance Graphic Design | New York, NY | September 2012 -July 2013
  • Created intuitive attributes for Sportlink, a professional sports team utility app
  • Crafted and implemented successful identity design, book layout, application icons and attributes
  • Collaborated with Brooklyn artists creating zines, posters, postcards and brochures
Marczyk Fine Foods | Marketing Assistant, Graphic Designer | Denver, CO | June 2010 - August 2012
  • Maintained consistent visual voice and environment of two retail locations
  • Produced 300+ product signs per week, print advertisements, printed and embroidered apparel,
  • vehicle wraps and large format graphics and photographs
  • Increased social media following by over 175% by utilizing rich media, clever copy and crafty tagging, key-wording, liking and sharing
Faction Media | Graphic Designer | Denver, CO | January 2009 - May 2010
  • Created award winning brand identity for Avaya Aura, Avaya's people-centric, core communications platform launched in 2010
  • Crafted and implemented multi-touch, multi-platform campaign pieces including direct mail postcards, trade show displays, microsites and multiple page catalogues
  • Communicated effectively with account coordinators, web developers, copy writers, SEO managers,management and creative team in agency setting

Education

Epicodus | Front-end Development | Portland, OR | January 2016 - June 2016
  • Course Track: Intro to Programming, CSS, JavaScript, and UI Design
Boise State University | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design | Boise, ID | September 2003 - December 2007
  • Winner of Boise’s Poetry in Motion public transit poster campaign, featuring five original designs
  • Completed all photographic courses offered including history, methodology and printing