CV
Professional Summary
Formally trained and educated in urban design, I have a passion for user experience in every form. While obtaining my first degree in landscape architecture by day, I was designing my first website at night and over the last decade, I have combined my education and real world experience to enhance the user experiences for many companies and their customers. Enhancing the lives and experiences of others is my mission and I aim to utilize my gift to create new methods to design beautiful and functional physical and digital environments.
Skills
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USER RESEARCH
Understanding who we are helping is the start to any successful project. By removing ourselves from the situation, opening our minds and ears, we can then begin to have the empathy required to assist a client or organization. From interviews to competitive analysis, it all starts with great research and analysis.
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USER INTERFACE
Art is more than a tool to communicate complicated expressions or ideas. It is a medium to evoke expressions and feelings. Any great UI must start with the understanding of art and its complicated history. From typographies to color schemes, every detail of the UI experience will guide or lose the user, making this section of design very important.
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USER EXPERIENCE
It is one thing to understand or analyze the complexities of the client and their problem and it is another to create a beautiful template that expressions a feeling. But, to create a flow or map to guide users through a design has to elegant and powerful at the same time. This is where rubber meets the road to solve real world problems in a meaningful way.
Content Strategy Writing Campaign Management Branding
Social Media Events Content Creative Initiatives Business Development Graphic Design Web Design Stand Ups Negotiations Team Management
Work Experience
2020 - Present
Director of Business Development + Marketing
Responsible for our online user experience and marketing content including; desktop and mobile web site design, content creation for all social media, companywide presentations, and advertisements, and graphic design. Identifying and implementing innovative hardware and software to enhance the company’s workflow and project efficiency and profitability.
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Develop, coordinate, and implement go-to market strategies to increase existing business and capture new opportunities within AEC industries.
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Regularly meet or stay in touch with civic leaders, design firms, or private developers to discover or identify new opportunities. Attend all local city council meetings, nonprofit organizations gatherings.
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Responsible for all direct communication and reporting to department heads regarding new opportunities, media discoveries, and awarded projects within the AEC industry.
2017 - Present
Urban Canvas Studio - Creative Director
As founder, my responsibilities include end to end customer relations and user experience creation, presentation decks and public speaking, online experience and branding, social media content creation and analysis. In addition, I am in charge of managing all design meetings with clients or organizations, while managing final installations and QA / QC.
2011 - Present
Freelance - Creative Director (UI + UX)
Consulted with various clients to review current products and provide design solutions to solve user needs and business challenges through User Research, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Visual Design, and Prototyping.
Education
2008 - 2014
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor's of Landscape Architecture - GPA 3.25
2018 - 2020
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Master's of Landscape Architecture - GPA 3.85