Relevant Experience
Experience Designer
Adaptive Path, San Francisco, CA
June 2010 – Present
Summer Associate
Adaptive Path, San Francisco, CA
June 2009 – August 2009
Worked as an experience design intern on active client projects, including concept generation and wireframing support for the new Cerego smart.fm iPhone app. Published to the Adaptive Path weblog regarding sketching and concept work. Developed and launched a redesigned version of the Adaptive Path home page, and implemented site-wide changes across the entire company website.
Web Director
Big Winds, Hood River, OR
February 2007 – August 2008
Managed and directed the online presence for the largest windsurf and kiteboard shop in the United States, including company website, commerce engine, product catalog, weblog, photo galleries, search visibility and online advertising. Responsible for all online media publication, including product information, copywriting, graphic design and photography. Migrated website and commerce engine to a new hosting environment and a Ruby on Rails architecture. Improved website design, layout, usability and functionality by referring to latest web industry research, best practices and visitor usage statistics. Work increased both online and offline sales, including strongest results in business history.
Web Designer & Developer, Business Owner
Brainside Out, Minneapolis, MN
September 2005 – February 2007
Managed website strategy, creation and maintenance for over a dozen clients while working as an independent web designer and developer. Work included project management, standards-based website design, back-end and front-end development, copywriting, webhost migration, software customization and content management. As a guest lecturer, presented to upper-division web design courses at the University of Minnesota Duluth, discussing design processes and client management.
Web Developer
Big Winds, Hood River, OR
January 2005 – May 2005
Rebuilt the back-end and front-end of the Big Winds e-commerce engine using standards-based design practices, and integrated it with a new website design. Updated back-end code and administrative sections to support new products and categories, greatly expanding flexibility and functionality of existing site.
Marketing Director, Web Designer, Web Support Specialist
Alpine Internet Solutions, Bend, OR
January 2004 – January 2005
As the Marketing Director, launched a completely updated and redesigned version of the Alpine corporate website. Work included project management, copywriting, graphic design, front-end development and information architecture. As a web designer, created and implemented a series of website design standards, resulting in a unified front-end development process that the company continues to use today. Involved in the creation and maintenance of more than 30 client websites, with work including project management, website design and layout, front-end development, copywriting, information architecture, search engine optimization and email marketing. Trained three web designers in standards-based semantic design practices.
Education
Indiana University Bloomington
September 2008 – May 2010
Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction Design, May 2010
4.0 Cumulative GPA
University of Minnesota Duluth
September 1999 – May 2003
Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, May 2003
Major: Interdisciplinary Studies, New Media Writing
Minors: Philosophy and Jazz Studies
3.9 Cumulative GPA
Design Skills
Familiar with human-centered design methods, including ethnographic observation, contextual inquiry, affinity diagramming, sketching, personas, prototyping, paper prototyping, usability testing, card sorting, site mapping, information architecture, wireframing, project management, copywriting, and working in small teams.
Technical Skills
Expert at CSS, HTML and XHTML. Experienced with PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CodeIgniter, MySQL, AJAX, DOM scripting, JavaScript, Prototype, Scriptaculous, jQuery, Blueprint CSS, RegEx, SSH, FTP, Subversion, XML and RSS. Some experience with C, Objective-C, Cocoa and ASP. Some experience with web APIs, including the Twitter API, Google Maps API, Google Charts API and Flickr API.
Expert at Mac OS X, Photoshop, TextMate, BBEdit, Transmit, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and Quicksilver. Experienced with Windows XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Aperture, FreeBSD/Linux, Terminal, DOS, Subversion, Silverback, Premiere Pro, InDesign, Dreamweaver, iMovie, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor, Versions, Things, Yojimbo, WordPress, Movable Type and Google Analytics. Some experience with Windows Vista, Illustrator, Flash, Keynote, Outlook, Papers, OmniGraffle and Xcode.
Awards & Accolades
Published to the Adaptive Path weblog regarding concept generation and post-desktop interactions in Smart.fm: Imagining Possible Worlds and Off the Desktop and Into the World. Summer 2009.
Published WattBot: A Residential Electricity Monitoring and Feedback System in the Extended Abstracts of CHI 2009. Boston, MA. ACM Press, New York, NY. PDF Download, ACM Digital Library
Advanced to final round of the CHI 2009 Student Design Competition with WattBot. Presented at CHI 2009.
Honorable Mention in the Indiana University School of Informatics Graduate Student Poster Session with poster for WattBot. April 2009.
Executive Chair of the Indiana University Graduate Informatics Student Association. January 2009 – February 2010.
Other Experience
Associate Instructor
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
September 2008 – May 2010
Wilderness Guide
YMCA Camp Menogyn, Grand Marais, MN
June 2006 – August 2006
June 2005 – September 2005
Snowboard Instructor
Mount Bachelor, Bend, OR
November 2003 – March 2004
Windsurfing Technician, Webmaster
Big Winds, Hood River, OR
May 2003 – November 2003
Senior Counselor, Windsurfing Director
YMCA Camp Ihduhapi, Loretto, MN
June 2002 – August 2002