MY EXPERIENCE

I have over 11 years of experience with marketing, information architecture, interaction design, business strategy, and usability testing. Working at some of the best interactive agencies, has afforded me the opportunity to work with some amazing clients, interesting user communities and very talented co-workers.

I wanted to share a little about how I work and some of the lessons I have learned over the years. Check it out.

Love the whiteboard - I like to start on the whiteboard. Give me a few dry-erase pens and a whiteboard and I am off to the races. I like to quickly work through ideas with my team and the whiteboard seems to be the best method. Since I am artistic by nature I also enjoy drawing concepts on paper too. Whatever it takes to get the idea out of my head for people to see and react to.

Do the research - I understand the importance of doing the correct research up front. If you have the right documents, analytics, and subject matter experts involved you will be making informed choices instead of taking shots in the dark.

Listen well - My experience has taught me that great ideas can come from anyone at anytime. You don't have to be the most knowledgeable about a given topic or problem to come up with a great idea. So it's important to listen to all involved.

Understand your audience - The more information about the potential users you can uncover the better the end product will be. Gaining understanding of what the audience wants and needs is always a major key to my successful projects.

Build relationships - My goal is to always build long-term relationships with my clients and my project team members. Respecting the talents within my client's organization and within my team is more important to me than being in charge or right.

Work as a team - I am at my best when I am amongst enthusiastic, hard-working, fun loving people. I enjoy being a member of a team and providing vision, guidance, and experience in a creative playground.

Have fun - The type of work I am privileged to do is fun. I enjoy thinking about it, being part of it, and being immersed in it. I am a technology user to the core; my iPhone (loaded with apps) is always at my side.

Do your best - My mom used to say to me "if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right". That's true with user experience design as it's true for most things in life. At the end of the day, I want to feel like I gave it all my best and I have done work to be proud of.

Get involved - Get into the work, roll up those sleeves and dig in! Get the right people involved too. Involving content people, tech people, design people, and marketing people sooner than later will make the project run much smoother.

If you want to learn more about my experience download my resume (PDF) or send me a message.

Best Wishes,