Impactful

Product Design

Collaborating with global Fortune 500 brands and startups, I have 8+ years of experience building multiple award-winning products and innovative digital experiences. As a leader, I have 7 years of experience directing agency and client-side teams that are people-focused, idea led, and research-driven with cultures fostering teamwork, initiative, and artistry.

Reading

Inspired, by Marty Cagan

Writing

“Advance Your Story”

Actively Learning

Figma

Expertise

A holistic approach means multi-disciplinary skills.

Research

Interviews, Focus Groups, Field Studies, A/B Testing, Usability Tests, Surveys, Data Analysis

Design

Experience, Product, Interface, Interaction, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Web, App, E-Commerce, Conversational, Graphic

Development

HTML5, CSS, C#

Project Management

Leadership, Organization, Communication, Listening, Public Speaking, Time Management, Organizational Behavior, Sprint, Waterfall, Agile

Writing

Creative, Copy, Instructional

Video

Directing, Producing, Production Management, Cinematography, Editing, Motion Graphics, Acting

Photography

Product, Commercial, Lifestyle, Fashion, Editorial, Artistic

Marketing

Strategy, Messaging, Identity and Branding

Experience

Walking the walk.

Senior Product Designer

Motivosity
Feb 2021 - Present
Lead the design function inside the product organization, work with product owners and engineers to implement features, and collaborate with marketing and sales on style direction to drive the vision of helping employees be happier about being at work.

  • Built all new design system that modernized and improved visual and interaction design platform wide.

Freelance Product Designer and Director

Avant-garde Creative
May 2013 - Present
Founded professional community of freelancers where I lead agile design, web, video, and audio teams for all client accounts. By establishing standards and culture that drive empathy, flexibility, innovation, and artistry Avant-garde Creative has built client trust and respect nationwide.

  • Collaborated with Disney, Nickelodeon, McDonald's, Kohl's, global advertising agencies, and more to deliver digital experiences to the web, mobile, and TV.
  • Directed the creative for award-winning products, such as Thermal Imaging Radar and Independent short films.

Product Designer

Funded Today, LLC
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Worked with global clients and teams to bring life to innovative products via the world’s largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter. I achieved success by fusing design with sociological insight, and business strategy to create world-class work to boost backer conversion.

  • 82% project success rate with 77K+ average raised.
  • My campaigns are more than 2x as likely to be funded vs. the average Kickstarter project.

Education

Talking the talk.

Utah Valley University

BS, Web Design and Development - Interaction and Design Emphasis
Class of 2019
Coursework in human-centered design methodologies, design principals/theory, research/validation, compression techniques, project management, and authoring for web, mobile, digital publications, and AR/VR.

  • Leadership Team - Experience Design at Utah Valley University.
  • Selected as program ambassador to Silicon Valley and Seattle, WA.

Brigham Young University - Idaho

AS, General Studies
Class of 2009

  • 3.95 Cumulative GPA.
  • Full academic and theatre department scholarships.

Education

Talking the talk.

Interests

To design experiences, you first must have experienced.

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