Professional Experience

Lead Designer & Contributing Front-End Developer

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Helping people learn to play the piano and their favorite songs through a smart app. Design & technology improvements in the new 3.0 release have lifted the app from 2.7 to 4.8 of 5 stars on the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone.

Senior Designer

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Supported education non-profit organizations, start-ups, and publishers with digital design. Clients included the Gates Foundation, the XQ Institute, the Lawrence Hall of Science, the Omidyar Network, and education publishers.

Freelance Product Design

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Expanded my front-end development skills and consulted with education technologists and independent Mac app developers.

Product Designer for Professional Learning Maps

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Led all aspects of design and contributed extensively to front-end development for a professional development platform used by thousands of K – 12 educators in 80 school districts nationwide. PLM was nominated for a CODiE Award in the Best Professional Learning Solution for K – 20 Faculty and Administrative Staff category in 2016.

User Experience & Visual Designer

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Designed innovative tools supporting reading, writing, science curriculum, and education standards with product teams as well as with design and product leadership to explore product concepts.

User Experience Designer

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Part of a team that executed the ground-up redesign of virtual data room file management and reporting tools used by Fortune 500 financial institutions and corporations. We introduced desktop interface and interaction patterns then uncommon in web-based applications.

Skills

  • UX design
  • UI design
  • Prototyping
  • Icon design
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, SVG
  • React
  • Copywriting
  • Photography & retouching

Education

Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA

Jazz Performance. Musical studies including drumset, harmony, ear training, and arranging.