Experience
Director, Interactive Design
Fidelity Investments , Boston, MA
Oct 2011
present
I lead the interactive design system efforts on complex enterprise-level web applications and produce inclusive, accessible, multi-platform design systems at scale. This includes understanding business, user, and functional needs to produce experiences that help users and development teams accomplish tasks as effective as possible.
Associate Creative Director
Artifex Technology , Lincoln, RI
Nov 2010
Oct 2011
I lead a creative team with designing new UI features and redesign existing ones based on understanding user, business, and functional needs. Document UX specifications (site maps, task flows), and detailed interaction designs such as annotated wireframes. Prepare and maintain style guides. Create interactive prototypes in HTML, CSS, jQuery, etc. Coordinating user acceptance testing.
Web Designer/Usability Specialist
SmartPros , New Bedford, MA
Jul 2006
Nov 2010
Responsible for all web design, usability, XHTML /CSS , wireframes, and storyboarding. Maintenance of over 200 websites; ensuring quality, performance and reliability. Experience with project management of fortune 500 websites such as GE , New York Life, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, MetLife, and Prudential Financial.
Senior User Experience Designer (contract work)
Disruptor Beam , New Bedford, MA
Mar 2010
Jun 2010
Assisting with the design of two Facebook games (True Pirates and Gods of Rock ). Involved in the character-building, decision-making and story of these games. Conceptualizing of complex user experience and user interaction scenarios.
Web Designer
Artifex Technology , Lincoln, RI
Nov 2004
Jul 2006
Working with clients to develop look and feel of web applications. Responsible for web design, usability, XHTML /CSS breakouts, print work, production content, and storyboarding.
Junior Web Designer
FinancialCampus , Southboro, MA
Apr 2003
Nov 2004
Involved with sites/projects from inception to delivery. Responsible for all interface design.
Great Reads
Expressive Design Systems
Build useful, dependable systems that not only maintain harmony across your products, but also flex to accommodate inspiration and experimentation.
The New CSS Layout
CSS Grid Layout will transform the way you design and develop for the web—and Rachel Andrew will change the way you grok the spec.
Practical SVG
Chris Coyier teaches you how to use one of the most powerful image technologies on the web, SVG.
Responsible Responsive Design
Responsive design has improved multi-device visual layout —but it's only the first step in building responsively.
Designing UX: Forms
A recent study found that on average, forms having a great user experience almost doubled the rate of successful completions.
Don't Make Me Think
Hard to imagine any web designer who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it.