Digital experiences are not only changing human behavior, they are architecting society and impacting the human narrative globally.
I feel a strong responsibility to learn better truths, leverage understanding, and care to solve interesting problems.
I believe design delivers visual artifacts using critical & resourceful thinking to help communicate ideas that solve real problems and provide real value.
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Kindness, care and respect to all people and things. A banner I carry into all relationships. The world is crazy enough without us adding to it.
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Creating simple solutions is a challenging process. I'm an advocate for simplicity in all things: process, research, and execution.
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Kind & caring humans build delightful experiences. Value people more than the products they build.
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Creating from nothing is no fun. Taking time to document provides a well of resources to create from.
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Making the right call is not always the easiest decision. It's important to do whatever it takes to make sure the right thing is done the right way at the right time.
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It's important to let others know where they stand, what they are doing well, and highlight opportunities to improve. Feedback is a gift we can all give.
Product Designer Manager • 2022-Currently
Bestow knows the peace of mind that can come from feeling prepared for an uncertain future. We’ve reimagined life insurance, driving innovations in technology and data to expand access and opportunity to more families. I joined the team as a design manager focused on improving our design ops and growing the team. I also contribute as a lead designer on several platforms.
Operations Portal
Admin Portal
Design Systems
Underwriter Portal
SaaS platforms
Enterprise partnerships
Design Ops
Design Manager
Associate Director of Product Designer • 2018-2022
I joined team Solvent not knowing anything about the dry cleaning industry. I saw tons of opportunity and a fun problem to solve. We built something that no one had yet to been able to accomplish in the industry, and we built a team and process at the same time. I jumped right in and enjoyed every moment of it. As Associate Director of Product Design, I lead the thought and design of all applications.
Operations Tool
Point of Sale
Driver App
Guest App
Guest Care
Head of Design
Marketing
Branding
User Research
User Testing
Design Systems
Agile
Design Ops
Design Manager
Graphic Designer • 2012-2015
Product Designer • 2015-2018
My longest employment to date (5 years 6 months). I begin my time as a graphic designer as part of the Creative Media team. Life.Church is America's largest church with roughly over 100,000 in attendance over 30+ locations. I started when there were only 14 locations. My time as a graphic designer, I developed direction and artwork for kids, youth, and adult curriculum, crafting template creative to be used for global communications and signage, and worked with filmmakers to deliver motion graphics.
The design team over saw the creation and roll out of new branding when lifechurch.tv became Life.Church. It was a huge undertaking. We explored and pitched ideas and took inventory of hundreds of materials and print assets including outdoor signage on all our properties.
About three years in, I had an ever growing interest in product development. Life.Church is a tech forward organization. They have developed several digital platforms to serve many communities as well as deliver their own content. I joined the interactive team as a product designer and quickly learned under the guidance of Clint McManaman. During my time, we completely overhauled Life.Church site, internal media distribution, built an attender app, our own giving platform that integrated with our app and site, along with many updates to ministry digital experiences. I learned a ton around the traditional practices of product development in an agile environment and what it takes to grow a team from just a few friends hanging out to a full stack product team delivering on multiple products simultaneously.
Creative Direction
Art Direction
Branding
Motion Graphics
Rebrand Life.Church
Life.Church Site
LC App