My goal as a UX Strategist is not unlike the goal I had when I taught third grade: simplify complexity and use that to build something amazing. With my students, I simplified concepts and used that as the basis of more learning. In UX, I seek to understand complex organizations: their goals, their users, and their challenges and find a way to use those insights to create a better experience for both the organization and their audiences.
My background in sociology and design gives me a way to breakdown problems, understand them quantitatively and qualitatively, layer in human-centered solutions with an eye on how that solution might look and feel like to a user.
Over the last decade plus, I’ve served as Adjunct Professor of Typography at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University from 2012-2013. From 2010-2011, I served as Vice-President of the Boston Chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild. I am co-founder of Creative Relay, an organization dedicated to providing professional development opportunities to the local and national creative community. In this capacity, I worked closely with partner organizations such as Massachusetts College of Art and Design, AIGA Boston, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Rhode Island School of Design. I’ve also developed original presentations for Massachusetts College of Art and Design and for national webinars.
The personal bits
I’m a native Floridian and before my life in design and UX, did everything from spending two years teaching third grade in a small border town in South Texas to making fried rice and loose meat sandwiches at a restaurant slightly smaller than most bedrooms.
I currently reside in Melrose, MA and spend my spare time cycling, cooking, homebrewing, and scoring baseball games the old-fashioned way.
