User Experience Designer at Comcast Interactive Media
Greater Philadelphia Area
User Experience Designer at Comcast Interactive Media
Greater Philadelphia Area
Recent graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in industrial design, magna cum laude!
Applied dynamic thinker with a passion for realizing opportunities in the realms of service design, human-computer interaction and user-centered design.
Co-presenter at Carnegie Mellon's Emergence Conference 2007 on the topics of Service Design in Healthcare, Information Visualization and "Designers at the Helm"
Recipient of Electronic Ink's Innovation Award for work on a major Healthcare Service Design Project, July 2007
contextual design modeling
contextual inquiry
contextual research methods
industrial design
information architecture
information visualization
interaction design
personas
research synthesis
service design
service blueprinting
sketching
storyboarding
statistical analysis
(Public Company; CMCSA; Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
(Design industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
A small startup, MOAT Design Studio is a collaboration between the creative minds and idle hands of me, Katie, and Ryan Jahn. We craft internet experiences for entertainment companies, non-profits and other startups. We also explore more tangible ways of creating art through functional sculpture and industrial design. Check us out at www.Moatdesignstudio.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2008 — October 2008 (5 months)
Worked closely with Information Architecture, Design and Management teams to create a dynamic, user centered marketing website and web app for credit card security management as well as web-presences for a household natural pharmaceutical product and brand.
Responsibilities included sketching websites from scratch to create wireframes and inform visual design, present original concepts to clients and see designs through multiple iterations into launch.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)
6 Month Internship concentrating on interaction design, information architecture and service design, rolled over into a contractor position.
Electronic Ink is a leading design firm dedicated to creating and refining the experience for users interacting with digital products. From its offices in New York, Philadelphia, London and Raleigh, Electronic Ink improves the design and usability of software applications, enterprise software and browser-based applications. Electronic Ink is a collection of the foremost experts in the field of user-centered design, who apply proven expertise in areas of Business Analytics, Human Factors, Design and Technology. Clients include the most notable brands in a wide variety of industries, including Astra Zeneca, BP (British Petroleum), Merrill Lynch, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters and Wyeth.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
October 2006 — April 2007 (7 months)
BFA , Industrial and Interaction Design , 2004 — 2008
design, design, design bikes, cooking, reading, yoga, gardening, brainstorming, pen & ink drawing
IDSA, Philly CHI, Emergence 07, EInk Dragonboating
Innovation Award, July 2007, Electronic Ink