Dreaming up colors never seen before

I am currently the Director of Creative Services, Brand, Trademarks, and Licensing for Miami University. Formerly a Creative Strategist and Creative Talent Lead at TiER1 working across a variety of clients and projects. Traditionally trained as a print designer and self-taught interactive designer with experience in UI/UX. I have worked across multiple mediums, helping to solve problems and grow businesses using intelligent collaboration, creativity, and innovation. With experience in everything from design and photography direction to social media campaigns and responsive websites.

I attended the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati during which I completed 6 co-op quarters of design internships. I’ve had the opportunity to intern at Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, D3, Inc., Walmart.com, and FS Creations and work at POSSIBLE (now known as Grey Midwest), Miami University, and TiER1 Performance.

I am also working at Miami University (OH) as an adjunct professor where I taught UX/UI fundamentals to Communication Design majors covering topics from UX basics, wireframing, site maps, persona development, color contrast accessibility, and more. Inspired by teaching, I turned my creative drawing prompts from class into a drawing prompts website.

I’m an annual designer for the Southwest Ohio GiveCamp, regular at NACDA meet-ups, and was a panelist at the 2018 Cincinnati Design Week EMERGE workshop. I am a certified Enterprise Design Thinking: Practitioner (IBM) and have a certificate in Conducting Usability Testing from the The Interaction Design Foundation.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Creative and Art Direction, Branding, DAM Systems, UX/UI, Print Design, Brainstorming, Design Thinking, and Creative Talent Development