My Work
My work experience, specialties, and skills.
Highlights
Professional Experience
Lead UX Designer – Mercer
Mercer
March 2011 to present
Responsibilities:
• User experience design and facilitation of project personas, goals, and workflows in low, medium, and high fidelity using tools like Sketch, Figma, Abstract, InVision, Photoshop & Illustrator.
• Develop front-end markup, CSS & JavaScript on web-based, workforce intelligence software for Fortune 500 clients.
• Explore, prototype & implement new user interfaces taking advantage of features in HTML5, CSS3, Node.js and markup preprocessors such as SASS/SCSS for latest desktop & mobile browsers.
Owner & General Manager – Fern Creek CrossFit
Fern Creek CrossFit
January 2019 to present
Responsibilities:
• Leads by example, upholds and promotes the culture, mission and values of the gym.
• Sets and complies gym standard operating policies, procedures, rules and standards.
• Manages senior gym staff, including head coach, social media manager, client success manager, and sales manager.
• Mentor all gym staff to help build their career as fitness professionals.
• Maintain gym branding and online presence on web and social media.
Web Administrator – IU Southeast
Indiana University Southeast
December 2008 to February 2011
Responsibilities:
• Support IU Southeast web presence including all websites, web applications and web initiatives.
• Support and administrate all web, application & database servers.
• Support and lead IU Southeast IT web team.
Websites & Applications Managed:
• ius.edu and sub-sites
• University departmental sites (Campus Life, Career Services, University Communications, Information Technology, etc.)
• Seatfinder (student workstation location app)
Senior Interactive Developer – Doe-Anderson
Doe-Anderson
August 2007 to November 2008
Responsibilities:
• Develop web applications and user experiences.
• Program large-scale, content managed websites.
• Create semantic, web standard front-end code.
• Implement advanced JavaScript effects and interactivity.
Clients Managed:
• Maker’s Mark
• Ohio River Bridges Project of Kentucky & Southern Indiana
• Suntan City
• Greater Louisville Branding Project
• National Center for Family Literacy
• Ryder Cup Media Project for the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Doe-Anderson website
Development Team Leader – Hosting.com
Hosting.com (now a part of HostMySite)
March 2007 to August 2007
Responsibilities:
• Manage team of web and application developers.
• Manage development projects and schedules.
• Create and maintain reporting structure for management and executives.
• Consult and guide corporate decision-making for web and application development.
• Continued responsibilities of all graphic design and web development tasks.
Websites & Web Applications Managed:
• Hosting.com
• Portal.Hosting.com
• CFXHosting.com
• HalfpriceHosting.com
• FocalPoint – Hosting.com’s Intranet System
Visual Designer & Web Developer – Hosting.com
Hosting.com
July 2004 to March 2007
Responsibilities:
• Create print graphics for corporate hosting brands.
• Create web and user interface designs for corporate hosting brands.
• Develop web applications and user experiences for customer control panels and corporate intranet.
Websites & Web Applications Managed:
• Hosting.com
• Portal.Hosting.com
• CFXHosting.com
• HalfpriceHosting.com
• InternetFrog.com
• FocalPoint – Hosting.com’s Intranet System
• Invotion.com
Senior Applications Developer – LeapFrog
LeapFrog, Inc.
May 2000 to June 2004
Responsibilities:
• Implement web development process.
• Supervise application development department.
• Develop web applications and user experiences.
• Design & program large-scale database driven websites and applications.
• Maintain web hosting, email and internal file servers.
• Traffic coordination, collection of client web content.
Clients Managed:
Thomas Industries, Farm Credit Services MA, Fund For the Arts, YUM! Brands, KFC, Ceridian, Louisville Science Center, Louisville Orchestra, ThermoView, Becker Law Offices, On-Line Services, Inc., Regent Group, & Salem Media Group
Education
B.A. in Communications, University of Louisville, May 2000
• Focus in mass media, business communications and internet/web communications.
• Emphasis in interpersonal and group/organizational communication.
• CrossFit Level 1 Training certificate, April 2018
Skills
Specialties
• Web & interface design & development with focus on web standards, usability & findability.
• User experience design & workflow prototyping.
• Responsive and semantic front-end markup.
• Web & interactive production & development processes & procedures.
• WordPress website configuration & management.
• Social media marketing and advertising.
Programming Languages
• Semantic & valid XHTML, HTML5 & CSS 2/3
• Sass/Scss, Jade, Handlebars, Node.js, Gulp
• JavaScript & AJAX methodologies, jQuery, Underscore.js
• Object orientated PHP, CodeIgniter MVC & MySQL
• C# .Net, VB.Net, .Net MVC, VBScript, & legacy ASP
• ColdFusion 8/9
• MS SQL Server 2000, 2005 & 2008
Software
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Sketch (for Mac)
• Figma
• InVision
• WordPress
Operating Systems
• Mac OS X (latest versions)
• Windows (latest versions) & Windows Server (latest versions)
Preferred Development Tools
• Macbook Pro/Air w/ local dev environment
• Sublime Text for code & markup editing
• Gulp task manager for JS Linting, Sass compiling & other code quality tools
• Figma
Portfolio
View more portfolio items from my past work in web, user interface, and user experience, and logo design.