A 5+ year UX Designer
Information Architect
Website Developer
Application Designer
Standards Project Lead
Graphic Designer
Researcher
Summary
- I am a smart, efficient, dedicated, upbeat, quirky, autonomously worker
- I love to design, prototype, and create architectures for websites and applications.
- UX Design allows me to creatively problem solve everyday websites and applications for optimization and flow.
- I love to learn
- Within the last 2 years I’ve taught myself:
- HTML/CSS
- WordPress
- PHP
- drawing of vector art
- Within the last 2 years I’ve taught myself:
- I have a unique educational background
- M.A. from George Mason University
- Psychology: Human Factors and Applied Cognition in
- Psychology: Human Factors and Applied Cognition in
- B.A. from Carleton College
- Physics (and focus in Classical Languages)
- Physics (and focus in Classical Languages)
- M.A. from George Mason University
- I have an unusual research background
- analyzing high-
energy particles - analyzing fMRI and PET data
- analyzing high-
- I have written and maintained web and applications standards
- I have created numerous mockup designs and standards
- Used in future naval and aeronautic applications
- Used to mockup future designs
- Used in future naval and aeronautic applications
- I co-
created a 5 lesson STEM program - I have worked with both waterfall and agile/scrum processes
- I can translate well between:
- designers
- developers
- content teams
- business analysts
- management
- analytics and research teams.
- I have excelled at performing work remotely and while on travel
Stats
Education
Master’s Program
George Mason University, 2011
Human Factors and Applied Cognition
Bachelors’ of Arts
Carleton College, 2006
Physics
Aquent Gymnasium
- Coding for Designers
- Creating a WordPress theme
- Grid Layout in Bootstrap 3
- Dealing with Busy
- Responsive Web Design (80%)
Codacamedy
- HTML/CSS
- PHP (80%)
- JavaScript (65%)
- Command Line (20%)
Personality
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INTP – “Architect”. Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.
Introverted (I) 54% — Extroverted (E) 46%
Intuitive (N) 60% — Sensing (S) 40% Thinking (T) 50% — Feeling (F) 50% Perceiving (P) 68% — Judging (J) 32% |
Technical Skills
| Prototyping | ||
| Program | Years Using | Expert Level |
| Adobe Fireworks | 1 | * * * |
| Adobe Illustrator | 1.5 | * * |
| Adobe Photoshop | .5 | * |
| Axure | .25 | * * |
| Balsamiq | 5 | * * * * |
| HTML/CSS | 2.5 | * * * |
| Javascript | .25 | * |
| Serif DrawPlus | 1.5 | * * * |
| Serif WebPlus | .5 | * * |
| Sketch | 1 | * * * |
| PHP | .5 | * |
| Visio | 2 | * * * |
| CMS Programs | ||
| Program | Years Using | Expert Level |
| Access | 1.5 | * * |
| Confluence | 1.5 | * * * |
| WordPress | 2.5 | * * * * |
| MS Office | ||
| Program | Years Using | Expert Level |
| Access | 1.5 | * * |
| Excel | 15+ | * * * |
| Powerpoint | 20+ | * * * * |
| Word | 20+ | * * * * |
| Visio | 2 | * * * |
| fMRI analysis | ||
| Program | Years Using | Expert Level |
| AFNI | .5 | * |
| FSL | 2 | * * * |
| SPM | 3 | * * * |
| SPSS | 2 | * * |
Locations
Lived
- Washington DC Metro Area
- Oxford, England
- Northfield, MN
- Fenyang, China
- San Diego, CA
- Minden, WV
- San Francisco, CA
- Bend, OR
Visited
- Across the US (NJ, VT, NY, NV, MS, OK, UT, WA, CO, TX, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Joshua Tree)
- Vancouver, Canada and Whistler/Blackcomb
- Paris, France
- Australia (Brisbane, Sydney, Port Douglas)
- Baja, Mexico
- Costa Rica
