Experience

The Home Depot QuoteCenter

Lead UX Designer  (May‘14-Present)

Facilitate and conduct user centered research in support of a multi-billion-dollar employee used quoting application; aimed at assisting customers purchase their building materials.

Using analytics, research and user feedback to understand experience gaps and improvements needed in the platform.

Mentor other designers through critique, facilitation and shadowing to up-level the team’s deliverable quality.

Collaborate and inform stakeholders throughout the entire enterprise on large scale cross-functional initiatives.

Champion craft and empathy for customer-backed solutions that are feasible, desirable and viable. Aided in hiring for product, UX and other departments, including managers to ensure culture-fit.

Nike

Sr UX/UI Developer (Nov ‘10 - May ‘14)

Implemented the redesign of the internal blog “Zero” by bringing 17 separate blogs into a unifed design system with reusable components. Worked with multiple stakeholders to ensure quality and development of desired user features.

Originally brought on to port the entire e-commerce front-end from Flash to HTML/ JavaScript/CSS while maintaining a familiar cross browser experience expected from Nike customers.

A secondary goal was to bring the site to current web standards with future progression and graceful degradation in mind.

Directly contributed in the effort to expand to emerging global markets. Primary focus on UI/UX development for desktop/mobile/tablet speci cally in user interaction and localization.

cirsh

Principal / Brand Strategist (June '06 - June '15)

Identity/brand design and web development. Consulting services for various clients in any medium. Project to project or hourly. Responsible for meeting tight deadlines on multiple projects for multiple clients remote, and non-remote. Multi-tasking, prioritization and time management expert.

Precision Systems

Graphic Designer / Web Developer (Jun '09 - Nov '09)

Developing interactive e-commerce web sites from the ground up for various clients. Creating inventive style sheet and template solutions to existing web applications. Custom content management systems, add-ons for existing web applications. Interactive JavaScript solutions. Working in a team of two with tight deadlines. Experience with multi-language web sites and templates.

Oregon Web Team

Manager / Unicorn  (Jan '08 - Dec '09)

Manage a three person team of developers(2) and a designer to complete site designs, while maintaining client relationships and providing design direction. Some server administration on both windows and Linux platforms. Employee reviews, hired contractors, quoted jobs, developed marketing strategies, approved payroll and billing reports, assisted owner with various tasks, conducted client meetings and presentations, managed clients directly in person or remotely.

Education

Benson Polytechnic High school
Major: Computer Science

Oregon State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

Certifications

Certifed Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Credential ID 775191

Lean Product Discovery for Agile Teams

Sense & Response Press - October 2020

PMC III - Pragmatic Marketing + TDI

Pragmatic Institute - March 2020