Leader, designer & strategist

I'm a creative and innovative designer with over 20 years of experience translating complex ideas into intuitive and aesthetically pleasing designs.

Skilled at leading cross-functional teams to deliver effective products that enhance user experience and drive business growth, I bring my background as a developer, designer and everything between to facilitate communication.

Certified and proficient in user research and interaction design and with experience with prototyping and project management, I bring warmth, simplicity, and order to ideas that seem too hard to express and too large to grasp.

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Past Projects

MrBarrtender Online Store

Design and Shopify Theme

Mr.Barrtenderr Online Store

Fashion Camp Logo

Logo Design

Young Creatives Fashion Camp Logo Design

Harris Tech Expo

Design & Development

Harris Technology Expo

Family Drama

Book Cover Design

Family Drama by Dr. Gary L. Williams, Sr.

3D Bottle Rendering

3D Rendering

Donna Karen Cashmere

First Gravehill Baptist Church

Website Design & Development

First Gravel Hill Baptist Church

Journey Happy Photography

Website Design & Development

Journey Happy Photography

Abundant Life Today

Website Design

AbundantLife.Today Blog

Brown Bear

Book Illustration

Brave Brown Bear Cares

First Baptist Church of Mandarin

Logo Design

First Baptist Church of Mandarin Logo Contest

Nemours Mansion and Garden

Website Design & Development

Nemours Mansion & Garden

Nemours TeamShare

Info Architecture, Design & Development

Nemours TeamShare

Healthy Kids Healthy Future

UI Development

Let's Move Initiative - Healthy Kids Healthy Futures

Quiet Strong Website

Website Design & Development

Quiet Strong

Harris Archive

UX Design & Development

Harris Corporation - Internet Archive

Techniques

Exploration

To empathize with those I'm designing for, I use the following research techniques:

  • Card Sorting
  • Expert Reviews
  • Field Studies
  • Focus Groups
  • Interviews
  • Persona Creation
  • Surveys
  • Usability Testing

Ideation

In order to come up with as many ideas as possible as quickly as possible I like to:

  • Ask a lot of questions.
  • Involve others from various backgrounds.
  • Never dismiss ideas.
  • Leverage research.
  • Use pen and paper, white boards, sticky notes to quickly sketch out ideas.

Validation

I'm blessed to have a background in both development and design. I can monitor the success of my design by:

  • Wireframing and user testing
  • Prototyping and user testing
  • Accessibility checking
  • Coding and adding analytics tracking
  • Gathering feedback using surveys and in-person interviews

Experiences

Present

Senior UX DesignerAvaility LLC

Working on the Essentials Platform of tools.

2016

Lead DesignerL3 Harris

Corporate websites, intranet, and apps.

2014

UX/ UI DesignerNemours Hospital System

Internal and external facing apps

2007

Web DeveloperGeneral Dynamics - IT

Internal applications for NAVAIR.

2004

Graphic Designer & Marketing SpecialistWebs.com

Small business sites and webs.com marketing material.

Education

2020

Interaction Design UX CertificationNielson Norman Group

Best practice principles that can be applied to any design situation, including web, mobile, complex and simple apps, and customer products

2019

Research UX CertificationNielson Norman Group

Skills for conducting UX research methods correctly to gather sound data to improve user experiences.

2004

BA in Graphic Design
BA in Computer Applications & Programming

The University of Notre Dame

Multimedia Internship at the Mendoza School of Business
Image Award Winner for Arts