Hey there! I've been a UX Designer for 20 years. I love intuitive interfaces and how clean code lends itself to effortless maintenance, a broader audience, fast page loads, cross-browser compatibility and higher search engine rankings.

Skill Set

Master skills

Skill	Level
UX design	★★★★★
Wireframing	★★★★★
Prototyping	★★★★★
HTML	★★★★★
CSS	★★★★★
Responsive design	★★★★★
Browser compatibility	★★★★★
Web standards	★★★★★

Pretty good

Skill	Level
Figma	★★★☆☆
Photoshop	★★★☆☆
Illustrator	★★★☆☆
Mobile design	★★★☆☆
Usability testing	★★★☆☆
Web accessibility (WCAG)	★★★☆☆
Data visualizations	★★★☆☆
JavaScript	★★★☆☆

Projects

Handlebars

Handlebars homepage

Getting started page

Block helpers page

Download page

Wireframe of homepage

Wireframe of getting started page

Wireframe of block helpers page

Wireframe of download page

Handlebars is a simple templating language which generates HTML or other text formats.

Lakeville Athletic Club

Lakeville Athletic Club's homepage

Tennis instructors page

Leagues and Tournaments page

Swimming Pool Center page

Hockey page

Contact and Directions page

Womens tennis clinic flyer

Business cards

Tennis club offering organized tennis programs for all ages and skill levels.

R2Works

Dashboard

Documents page

Integrates all job recruiting activities into one, easy-to-use application.

Mullein Hill Academy

Mullein Hill Academy's homepage

Board of Directors page

About page

Christian school with high academic standards and biblical philosophy.

FinancialCampus

FinancialCampus homepage

Memberships and Courses page

Notice of scheduled site maintenance

Be Back Shortly Message

Focused on the development and delivery of e-learning to the financial industry.

Green Engineering

Green Engineering's homepage

Provides courses on clean, sustainable and mission-critical power management.

New York Life University

New York Life University's homepage

Financial training site which has an elaborate array of content management features.

CFA Webcasts

CFA Webcasts homepage

Webcast details

Webcasts and podcasts covering topics like Corporate Finance, Derivatives, Equity Investments, Portfolio & Risk Management.

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Branding

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Education

NEIT, Warwick, RI

Dec 2002

Associates Degree in Internet Communication Technology (3.8 GPA)

Work History

Director, Interactive Design

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Oct 2011 present

Started as Senior Designer and worked up to my current position. I lead the interactive design efforts on enterprise-level desktop and mobile web applications for Fidelity's Brokerage Technology. This includes understanding business, user, and functional needs to produce experiences that help users accomplish their 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

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.

Designing with Web Standards

Best-selling author, designer, and web standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman revisits his industry-shaking guidebook.