About

I'm all about interactive, and pretty thrilled to have found a medium that blends geek thrills and creative sensibilities so beautifully. How did I get so lucky?

Expertise

  • Adept at concepting, designing and implementing rich interactive experiences; expert at developing/coding standards-based HTML/CSS sites
  • Mediums:
  • Full interactive campaigns, including supplementary elements such as rich media/Flash banner ads, promotional pages, and HTML emails
  • Large-scale, standards-compliant, UX-focused websites
  • Attract loops and other promotional animations
  • Flash games
  • Experience sites
  • Skillset:
  • Concept and execution
  • Interactive design
  • Motion design
  • UX strategy
  • Wireframing
  • Project lead and coordination
  • XHTML/CSS development
  • Javascript
  • Actionscript
  • Web-based content management systems

Experience

  • UX Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, July 2009 to present
  • Roles: User experience and web strategy, conceptualization, design, and development
  • Clients: Minneapolis Fed web presence, including public and internal sites as well as external subsidiaries
  • Technologies: XHTML, Javascript, CSS, ASP, ColdFusion, Actionscript, Flex
  • Results: Working toward the creation and unification of a great user experience cross all mediums, including websites, emails, and video; content procurement and editing
  • Designer, Ham in the Fridge, November 2006 to June 2009
  • Roles: Conceptualization, design, front-end development, and implementation
  • Clients: Local and national retail, children's, and entertainment companies, including Target, Best Buy, Marvin Windows, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network
  • Technologies: XHTML, Javascript, CSS, ASP, Joomla, and Actionscript
  • Results: Interactive campaigns, websites, online games, rich media banner ads, and HTML emails
  • Freelance designer/developer, 2004 to present
  • Design and development of websites (XHTML/CSS and Flash), banner ads, and identity work; project and client management
  • Interactive designer / developer, Olive and Company, November 2004 to October 2006
  • Roles: Design, production, development, and maintenance
  • Clients: Local and regional engineering, technology, and food companies
  • Technologies: XHTML, Javascript, CSS, ASP, and Actionscript
  • Results: Websites, microsites, Flash pieces, and HTML email campaigns
  • Interactive design intern, Tunnel Studio, summer 2004
  • Graphic arts intern, American Girl/Mattel, summer 2003

Education

  • B.S., graphic design, summa cum laude, University of Minnesota, May 2004.
  • Capstone project completion, College of Human Ecology Honors Program.

Extras

  • University of Minnesota Design Student Mentor
  • Warm-weather biker, time-to-time gymnast, voracious reader, happy Minneapolitan