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Resume

Here’s some of my awards, achievements, and a few of the entities I’ve been fortunate enough to work with.

  • March 2016

    Usablelife

    Senior Web Designer

    • UI/UX for consumer facing sites and client applications
    • Accessibility advocate and strategist (insuring WCAG and Section 508 compliance across all sites)
    • Responsibility for HTML+CSS for dev team
    • Contributor support and education
    • Leadership role in implementing Accessibility sensibilities, standards, testing, and WCAG compliance into companies under our umbrella
    • Educate, support and mentor content contributors on CMS tools, user behavior, and production workflow
    • Conceptualize and iterate designs rapidly based on user and stakeholder feedback
    • Partner with and educate various internal departments to establish and maintain best practices for positive user experiences
    • Communicate between departments and partners to forge design solutions that meet both business and user needs
    • Collaborate with dev, hr and marketing teams to ensure a seamless user experience across all digital touchpoints.
    • Create user flows, sitemaps, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and detailed UI and visual design specifications for dev teams, marketing and business stakeholders
    • Conduct research including interviews, synthesis, data analysis, and presentation of results.
    • Understand branding guidelines and lead digital translation/adaptation of those standards across various products.
    • Create and maintain design guidelines, standards and best practices.
  • March 2015

    JEA

    Digital Communications Coordinator -> UX Designer

    • UI/UX for consumer facing dashboard widgets (graphs, charts, etc.)
    • Social Media management
    • Illustrative and photoshop content creation
    • Create HTML+CSS for dev team
    • Create and/or optimize landing, error, and other misc html pages for JEA.com
    • Concept, storyboard, and create animations
  • May 2014

    Availity

    Employee Communications Manager

    • In collaboration with the Organizational Development Principal, anticipates, identifies
      and addresses short- and long-term communication needs to support of Availity
    • Provide leadership on UI/UX and brand direction for HR and employee focused apps
    • Produce communications (copywriting, video production, social media, photography, etc.)
    • Create responsive HTML5 microsites for internal events
    • Sharepoint management and design responsibilities
  • Dec 2012

    GAAM

    Founder/President/Designer/Community Manager/Producer

    • Organizes one of the biggest annual gaming events in Jacksonville, FL (GAAM Show) that raises money for several non-profits and has created relationships with the gaming industry in Jacksonville
    • Produces and organizes 3+ mid-sized gaming events per year (GAAM Gladiators: Biggest esports event in Jacksonville, Retro GAAM Night: retro gaming that has partnered with MOSH, Nerd Market: commerce driven to assist local businesses and toy drive to benefit children)
    • Strategize and employ methods to garner success over multiple in person events and digital products
    • Overseeing UI/UX and brand management for multiple digital properties
    • Visualizing and present data insights to team members, partners and sponsors
    • Identifying patterns and trends in data and user behavior and creating, quick actionable solutions
    • Incorporate customer feedback, technical constraints, and usability findings into the design and actionable business process changes.
    • Producing and directing live programming and digital content creation
    • Facilitating and participating in content creation and strategy workshops
    • Creating fundraising and volunteering opportunities to benefit multiple non-profit organizations
    • Produced and directed photography shoots, video production, and ad design
    • Creating and managing business and stakeholder relationships
    • Copywriting, designing, and editing content
    • Highlighting and creating tools and opportunities to empower gaming community and “creators”
  • April 2011

    Carolina Casualty

    Director of Communications

    • Oversaw brand direction, advertising and promotional endeavors on behalf of the company
    • Provided leadership on UI/UX direction for developer & communications departments
    • Moved Carolina Casualty to page 1 for florida truck insurance on Google
    • Wrote and produced communications for all platforms
    • Reduced claim process by over 60% with improved UI/UX
    • Provided UI/UX direction & business integration consultation for company’s 1st mobile app
    • Produced custom Sharepoint build for Intranet. Oversaw UI/UX and produced HTML+CSS
    • Rebranded and redesign company’s outward facing website
    • Educated other employees about best design practices and creative production tools
    • Provided mentorship to associate communications director
  • June 2009

    Art Institute

    Web Professor

    • Taught UI/UX theory and practices, HTML, CSS, Flash, Wireframing, JQuery, & App Dev
    • Pushed Game/App development and had students create Angry Birds clones in 4 weeks.
    • Majority of students have gone on to have successful careers in
    • UI/UX design & development at top agencies (Station 4, SJ&P, Robin Shepherd, etc.)
  • June 2009

    Ignition Entertainment

    Social Media Strategist/Digital Consultant

    • Strategized and executed digital campaigns for launches on xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, & PSP
    • Created email campaigns that had a 90% + open and click thru rate
    • Added over 30,000 members to the Ignition Community, organically via social media
    • Trended #2 worldwide on Twitter with digital marketing campaigns
  • June 2006

    Dalton Agency

    Interactive Designer -> Senior Interactive Designer -> Social Media Strategist

    • Founded The Dalton Agency’s Social Media Department
    • Over 1000% swell in ticket sales with the Jacksonville Jaguars
    • Over $70,000 per in-store day sales during all digital promotions for Bealls
    • Over 500% growth of Dalton Agency online brand
    • Championed design philosophies to be used in Social Media content creation
    • Launched digital campaigns for American Heart, McDonalds, BAE, Discount Healthcare,
    • CVB, FSCJ, JU, Everbank, Bealls, Swisher, Touchdown Jacksonville (Jaguars), etc.
    • Managed and coordinated multiple interactive projects, and a team of up to 4 designers
    • Championed UI/UX disciplines and interactive workflows
    • Created ecommerce strategies for Bealls, BAE, and others
  • May 2005

    Ecisive

    Interactive Designer -> Director

    • Designed and developed sites for Tribeca Candle, My Global Playground, Air Logic
      Solutions, Ollie Koalas, Denim for Immortality, and David Nixon Productions
    • Responsible for design, development, asset conversions, copywriting, creative direction,
      animation, seo optimization, and management of projects
  • May 2003

    Hardball Sports Marketing

    Interactive Designer

    • Designed & developed projects for clients such as Alicia Keys, Vein Clinic, and FL/GA
    • SXSW Interactive Finalist
  • Feb 1999

    Margot Thompson Inc

    Interactive Designer

    • Assisted in jewelry construction and design for vendors such as Venus, SteinMart, Bells,
      and Bodyshop
    • Conducted photoshoots
    • Developed tradeshow booths
    • Designed and built multiple websites
    • Fashion illustration

Awards

SXSW Web Finalist
Art Space Award
Internet Vibes
Click of the Day
Vision Award
Golden Web Award
Coolest Designs
Mackey WebDesign FinestZone
NoLimit Media
AAoW Award
AGD Award
New Web Pick
Design Firms Award
RACie Award
Folio Weekly – Best Art Exhibit

Achievements

Chair and Founder of IGDA Jacksonville Chapter
2nd in the Gaming Category at One Spark 
Art Institute PAC Committee Member
Amin Social Conference Speaker
2019 Jax Community Champ
Regular Contributor to NPR’s “First Coast Connect”
SXSW Web Finalist
Top Shelf Social Media Speaker
Flager Social Media Speaker
UNF Social Media Speaker
Woodland Acres Elementary Speaker (Gotta support the kids. 😉 )

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