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Principal Interaction Designer - 09/12Collaborating with engineers, visual artists, and user experience researchers to create new software solutions for architecture and design professionals with the platform solutions & emerging business team.
Senior Interaction Designer - 08/09 Led teams to design on-screen and physical interfaces, interactions, and processes for industry leaders. Managed visual designers and developers to translate wireframes and interactions into final products. Worked with clients to understand user needs through ethnographic research.
Interaction Designer - 07/08 Worked with major software, web, and consumer goods companies on advanced user experience design projects. Audited existing user experiences, systems, and process in order to streamline them through new task flows and visual systems. Created screeners and moderated user testing sessions.
Lead Experience Design Consultant - 08 Led team designing location-based mobile map application. Worked with information architect to create a seamless experience for various mobile devices with different input methods. Directed visual designer to create an experience that was both visually rich and appropriate.
Consultant Designer - 05/06 Designed for the small screen with top tier mobile providers and MVNOs. Created visual reference guides, icons and skins for mobile interfaces. Ported designs between varying mobile handsets.
Designer - 04 Consulted on visual and industrial design for consumer goods. Promotional advertising, brand identities, web design & engineering. Prepared material specifications for mobile and desktop devices.
Solar Decathlon - 05
Competition : Finalist with RISD architecture team in international green building competition
International Design Expo - 05
Competition : Winner with Matt Grigsby for prescription medication distribution system
TwoForAll : Type Design - 05
Competition : Winner with Brandon Kauffman for modular type design
Worlds Ugliest Airports - 10
Publication : Selected photography featured, American Express Publishing Corporation
Influential Web Design - 07
Publication : Selected works featured,
Pepin Press, Amsterdam
Concentration in Physical Interfaces
Concentration in Fabrication Processes
Concentration in Photography