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About

I am a thoughtful User Experience strategist and leader currently living in Charlotte, NC. I've been passionate about delivering beautiful, intuitive and functional product solutions for nearly two decades. Over the past few years I have championed a design thinking process which has allowed me to fail fast and greatly improve user experiences. In addition, I enjoy branding social events, traveling abroad, staying active and keeping things simple.

Skills

Research
  • Stakeholder interviews
  • User interviews
  • Usability tests
  • Card sorting
  • Tree tests

Experience Design
  • Sketching
  • Whiteboarding
  • Task and user flows
  • Wireframes
  • Information architecture
  • User testing
  • Prototypes

Tools
  • Optimal Workshop | user research
  • Paper | sketching & ideating
  • Balsamiq/Sketch | wireframes
  • HTML/CSS/JS | prototypes, user testing
  • Photoshop | brand design

Development
  • Front end | html, css, scss, ada compliance, jquery, angular js
  • Back end | php, mysql and c#
  • Apps | Ionic, Phonegap

I Have

  • a passion for experience design, with focus on building functional and usable products
  • high self-motivation in working individually and closely with other teams
  • great communication and collaboration skills
  • conducted user research through stakeholder interviews with internal teams across industries
  • sketching, prototyping, storytelling skills
  • conducted stakeholder interviews, usability tests
  • experience creating site audits, task flows, sitemaps, use cases and scenarios
  • performed user testing, A/B testing and set up UX metrics such as KPI's
  • experience solving key design problems through ideation
  • a strong eye for clean, pixel perfect design and a relentless attention to detail
  • a strong sense of anticipatory design theory and typography
  • experience in entrepreneurship and building a start-up
  • experience in agile environments
  • experience in responsive web design and cross-platform compatible coding techniques
  • a very positive attitude with an empathetic and holistic view

I Love

  • solving problems
  • keeping things simple
  • eating healthy
  • working out
  • international travel
  • crime drama series

Experiences

  • User Experience Consultant
  • Freelance
  • May 2002 - present

  • User Interface Development Consultant
  • Financial Services Industry
  • October 2005 - 2016

  • Startup Co-Founder
  • The Makeup Team
  • March 2014 - present

  • Startup Co-Founder
  • House of UCE
  • January 2007 - present

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science/Mathematics
  • Winston-Salem State University
  • Cum Laude | 2000
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