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    Profile

    Product designer and design systems engineer with a passion for user-focused digital products that are highly functional and beautifully designed. More than twenty years of experience with user-centered design, design systems, UI and UX design, CSS architecture, front-end development and content management systems implementation. Expertise in aligning digital strategy with organizational priorities and executing across all digital channels.

    Skills

    Design
    • Responsive UI design
    • User experience design
    • Figma, Sketch, Invision
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
    • Web typography
    • HTML email design
    Technical
    • HTML, CSS, Markdown
    • Java Script, PHP
    • Word Press, Drupal, Jekyll, 11TY
    • Git version control
    • Mac operating system
    Strategic
    • Digital strategy
    • Content Strategy
    • Online branding
    • Social media integration
    • Email marketing

    Experience

    Booz | Allen - Lead Product Designer | June 2014 - present

    At Booz Allen Hamilton, my role varies from product designer to UX lead, or design lead, depending on the project. I have worked with the following clients:

    United States Postal Service (current project)
    Senior Product Designer: product designer for online applications that are part of the US Postal Service online presence USPS.com.

    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    Lead designer and design systems engineer: designed and developed a design system for medicaid.gov & insurekidsnow.gov based on the US Web Design Standards.

    Substance Abuse & Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA)
    User Experience lead: supported experience development on the SAMHSA Knowledge Network
    Design lead: supported UI design recommendations for resolving UI design pain points

    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid healthcare.gov - Senior front-end developer
    US Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs: Wordpress developer
    US Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights: Senior information architect
    United States Postal Service Human Resources intranet: Senior information architect

    Catholic Relief Services - Digital Director | October 2002 – February 2014

    Led the digital presence for global humanitarian aid organization. Creative and technical director for all public-facing web properties. Primary digital strategist.

    Catholic Relief Services Web Design Manager | May 1999 - October 2002

    University of Baltimore - Adjunct Professor, Digital Design 2009 - 2011

    Instructor in introductory and advanced web and user experience design for undergraduate corporate communications and graduate publications design students.

    Studio Potter

    Created functional pottery and handmade ceramic tiles for the American Crafts marketplace.

    Education

    BA, Visual Art and Design | Bennington College