Ergon was a very talented ecommerce dev shop doing custom development and platform migrations for Magento storefronts.

Clients included:

• Danner Boots

• LaCrosse Footwear

• Wildfang

Initially hired to help lead and train design engineering, our growth quickly shifted my primary focus back to production. This included designing and prototyping interactions, interfaces, user flows, and developing their final implementations.

For Danner and LaCrosse, I was responsible for a total refactor of the CSS as part of their respective migrations from Magento 1 to 2 and Foundation 4 to 5. Outside of a few adjustment to typography for readability purposes, a custom cart view, and a redesigned checkout experience, the new and old sites shared 1:1 visual parity per requirements. As part of this work, I also created custom living style guides for both design systems with documentation to assist their content teams.

At Steelcase, I was part of the Interaction Design team within their former Smart + Connected category. The team was small and built intentionally (each designer had a specialization; mine being rapid prototyping and development) to support our category's hardware and software offerings, including designing mobile and web applications, touch interfaces, boot/idle animations, and lighting.

As part of this, I primarily worked on the flagship hardware and software package they were developing to help organizations better utilize their spaces and amenities through capturing a series of data points in real-time for assessment and feedback. The web interface included roles-based views for both the analytics dashboards and equipment monitoring/management.

Initially I provided in-browser prototypes to the design and development teams to refine and review, including learning Angular to independently develop a dedicated proof-of-concept, but to help alleviate implementation issues and build better rapport between design and engineering, I started contributing directly to the codebase, pair program with the project's front-end team, and assisting with design-related code reviews and demos for design and technical directors. As a result, regressions were mitigated entirely and front-end velocity improved drastically.

I also worked with my ID team to document best practices for our category (specifically relating to web application design), and met with a variety of departments including global branding, UX research, industrial design, education, medical, and IT to document challenges they were facing and wanted to solve through design technology.

Copious was a digital agency with a focus on ecomm. While there, I helped bridge their design-to-engineering workflow; translating varying fidelities of design documents to code, helping creatives explore possibilities through new core web technologies, and bringing engineers up-to-speed on how to use them.

My primary client was Rejuvenation (Williams-Sonoma), who used a custom Rails solution for their storefront. I was responsible for engaging with designers and engineers to ship new and updated features, as well as the design engineering behind a fully responsive rebrand that prioritized accessibility, a flexible product grid system, and replacing JS interactions with native CSS.

I also assisted with the UI/UX implementation and project management of a privacy-driven social platform to silo engagement based on audience type. Collaborating directly with the founder, we were able to build and ship v1 of the native mobile app the web app in tandem in just a few months.

Contracted with an incredibly talented group of people at creative experience agency The Brigade to provide design and development support for a variety of projects.

Clients included:

• Bose (in collaboration with Spotify)

• Lucidworks

Evanta, now a Gartner company, organizes leadership events for Fortune 500 C-Suite executives. During my time there, they saw incredible growth in offerings and talent, and my role was to lead and scale the design of all of their digital properties throughout this process, including:

• their proprietary, in-house CRM

• events website

• custom private social network

• external event email campaigns

• internal help desk + emails

Internally, I also helped my team create:

• an animated event status dashboard designed for large, flat-screen TVs across the office

• a web interface for a microcomputer with scales to determine the amount of a flavor left across multiple industrial coffee stations that would alert operations for refills, and prevent sad walks back from across the building

I also initiated a rebranding campaign to both re‐imagine and standardize the company's visuals and tone of voice, bridging the disparity between print and web with the hope of digitizing some of our expensive printed materials. Along with three designers from the Marketing department, we explored numerous ways to maintain brand cohesion throughout the non-stop growth, and mitigating costs while increasing engagement through digitization and personalization.

Stepframe was a small but highly efficient digital agency with a deep bench of local and national clients. During my time there, I designed and developed websites, emails, Flash animations, print materials, and even did some copy- and commercial scriptwriting.

Clients included:

• Microsoft

• Starbucks

• T-Mobile

• Kaiser Permanente

• Expedia

• PNNL

• Energy Northwest

Work-based learning with two different agencies; one where I was responsible for digitally archiving and color-correcting printed media, and another where I was designing and developing local business websites.