PHILOSOPHY

“beautiful, simple, and effective design supports its content”

PROFILE

Over fifteen years visual and interaction design experience. Skilled in the design of interfaces for web and mobile applications, working on teams in usability and engineering. Experience in usability methods such as use cases, heuristic reviews, usability walkthroughs and user testing. Ten years experience in web design, marketing and corporate communications.


EXPERIENCE

User Interaction Designer/Developer
Digby
3/2011 - Present
Developed the interaction/visual design for location-based mobile software. Designed mobile e-commerce workflows and interfaces. Implemented html/css/javascript on most designs. Conducted usability testing and employed other user-centered design methods.

Creative Director
BrightLeafGroup, Austin, Texas
7/2010 – 3/2011
Design in various media: web, user interface and print. Designed award-winning Sustainability Reports and related websites for clients such as Dell and Coca-Cola.

User Interface Designer (Contract)
Cisco
8/2010 - Present
Design icons and other UI components for their enterprise software.

Director of Online Services
NEON Enterprise Software, Austin, Texas
10/2005 – 7/2010
Designed websites, user interfaces, CD interfaces, print collateral, and all other branding related to company.

Web and Print Designer
Carla Pileggi Design, Austin, Texas
11/2001 – 10/2005
Provide Web/Interface/Print design services for companies such as: Dell, Applied Materials, NEON Software, ASI, Infraworks and Autus Training.

Interface Visual Director
Interface Design & Usability Team, BMC Software, Austin Texas
3/1998 – 11/2001
Designed user interfaces with criteria for internationalization, accessibility and user experience. Developed graphic standards to maintain a visual consistency across the product lines. Promoted the tenets of user-centered design across the company.


TOOLKIT

Interaction Design

• Use Cases
• Task Flow Analysis
• Wireframes
• Interaction Patterns
• Screen/Page Comps
• Prototypes
• Usability Testing
• Style Guides

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Fireworks
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Acrobate

• Adobe Dreamweaver
• HTML/CSS
• SpringSource Tool Suite
• JIRA
• Agile methodologies