My

Details

I am a USenior UX Designer with 10+ years of agency/consulting experience that aligning the stakeholder’s vision to meet the user's needs using the user-centered design process. During this time I have been involved in over 100 UX projects for all types of companies from start-ups to Fortune 500. My approach is simple, clean, and modern, while building experiences that are device agnostic.

Typical Reads

Nielsen Norman Group, Smashing Magazine, UX Magazine, Mashable, UX Movement, Usability Geek, UX Booth, Engadget, The Next Web, plus others.

Hobbies & Interests

  • Fitness

  • Outdoors

  • TV Shows

  • Gaming

  • Technology

  • Travel

  • Music

"If the user can’t use it, it doesn’t work"
- Susan Drayn

My

Skills

Wireframing/Prototyping Tools

Axure 86%
Sketch 73%
Balsamiq 59%
UXPin 37%
Invision 67%

UCD Process

Discovery

Research, surveys, observations, interviews, journey maps, heuristic evaluation, personas.

Concept

Information-architecture, card-sorting, user-flows, site-maps, sketches, ideation, paper-prototypes, wireframes.

Design

Prototyping, user testing, review, approval.

General Knowledge

HTML
Javascript
CSS
SQL
BootStrap
PHP

“Websites that are hard to use frustrate customers, forfeit revenue and erode brands.”
- Forrester Research

My

Projects

'CURRENTLY UPDAING PROJECTS - PLEASE EMAIL ME FOR WORK SAMPLES PDF'

  • FedEx

    Research/Concept Design

  • ATT

    Reseach/Redesign

  • XBox

    Portal Design

  • 0365

    Research

  • Funko

    Concept Design

  • HP

    Portal Redesign

OTHER BRANDS I HAVE WORKED WITH








“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci

My

Education

2014 June

University of Washington,
Seattle

MS: Human Centered Design & Engineering

School Profile Description

The Master's program prepares graduates for roles in user experience research and design, interface design, interaction design and prototyping, product design, human-computer interaction, human centered engineering, and program management.

Coursework

Capstone Research (Costco), Visual Communication, User-Centered Design, User-Centered Web Design, Theoretical Foundations, Empirical Traditions, Usability Testing, Computer-Assisted Communication, Directed Research (WebLabUX), Directed Research (Microsoft Xbox Group).

2004 December

Luleå University of Technology,
Sweden

Ms: eCommerce

School Profile Description

The Master's program in electronic commerce (e-commerce) is designed to provide necessary knowledge and skills in order to manage, utilize and develop e-commerce in business and other sectors of society.

Coursework

Internet Marketing,Consumer Behaviour in Cyberspace, Strategies for e-Business, Seminar in Scientific Research Methods, Web Design Applications, Field-Based e-Business Project, Computer Aided Industrial Design, International Business, Maters's Thesis.

1999 December

California State University,
Long Beach

Bs: Management Information Systems

School Profile Description

This program has an emphasis on systems management, information process and analysis, and new uses of information technologies and management information systems for business applications and decision-making.