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Experience

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  Principal User Experience Designer

  Rapid7 • Oct 2015 - Dec 2023 • 8 yrs 3 mos

  Lead UX designer working on a small nimble in-house creative team focused on producing digital design efforts across marketing and other company wide projects.

  • Redesigned 10+ global company websites and supportive sites with a focus on solving customer and user needs, resulting in increased trials in website engagement.
  • Identified key pain points through user research and implemented data-driven design solutions based on user testing, session recordings, and heat map analysis to make thoughtful improvements to help drive revenue growth.
  • Revamped landing pages, email templates, and event booth designs, aligning with current branding guidelines working within CMS systems like Marketo, Goldcast, and EpiServer.
  • Developed a robust design system for all websites, digital projects, and print/event collateral.
  • Operated seamlessly with development teams to implement designs using modern design techniques and practices to enhance user experiences.
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  Principal UX Designer/Developer -
  (Acquired by Rapid7)

  Logentries • Feb 2014 - Oct 2015 • 1 yr 9 mos

  Lead designer and developer for all digital design efforts across marketing and company wide projects. Designed product UX applications interfaces and feature enhancements based on user research.

  • Grew website and marketing revenue to build momentum for the acquisition of Logentires by Rapid7 in 2015 for $68 million.
  • Expanded the design and development of responsive UI/UX for company websites and SaaS applications scaling to over 35K users.
  • Built out and launched user onboarding and adoption efforts using Pendo to increase user engagement and enablement for new and existing users.
  • Designed and developed for over 5 marketing and company websites using Wordpress; landing pages and email templates built within Hubspot and other digital properties.
  • Managed a creative team of 2 designers and 1 developer and organized design efforts across the company working closely with management to conceptualize and execute innovative design projects to increase product adoption, trials, and brand awareness.
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  Senior UX Visual Designer

  Monster • Apr 2011 - Feb 2014 • 2 yrs 11 mos

  Senior Visual Designer on the UX product team partnering with other UX team members, development, and product owners to build out both job search and employer hiring UX design experiences.

  • Core UX designer who built innovative design solutions with teams worldwide for 40+ global websites.
  • Redesigned and developed customer email layouts with a focus on responsive design techniques to improve mobile and tablet user experiences and engagements.
  • Simplified design outputs by operating on a cross-functional agile Scrum team to accelerate project delivery and deployment of code every 2 weeks vs every few months.
  • Mobile designer for m.monster.com and native applications for iOS and Android.
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  Senior Interactive Designer

  JAZD Markets • Oct 2010 - Apr 2011 • 7 mos

  Lead designer focused on supporting all marketing, product, and company wide design efforts. Partnered closely with leadership and development to roadmap projects and execute on company OKRs and goals.

  • Sole designer and front-end developer for a MaaS (Marketing as a Service) directory service platform.
  • Created product interface solutions for applications featuring efforts for our directory listing with a focus on listing performance with visual dashboards featuring direct funnel ROI conversion from a single view.
  • Produced informative email templates and other marketing strategies to build well informed clients and gain expanded application users.
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  Senior UI Designer

  NameMedia • Sep 2005 - Oct 2010 • 5 yrs 2 mos

  Senior designer working within a small design/development team that supported all company initiatives to bring projects to life through thoughtful and user centric design solutions.

  • Primary designer for the domain name division of the company which managed hundreds of thousands of unique domain names. Designed UIs for users to build custom website pages for portfolios of domain names to earn passive revenue.
  • Built UI design efforts for 10+ high-profile enthusiast sites including Photo.net, Geek.com, and Photography.com partnering with development teams.
  • Collaborated with product and marketing managers to enhance user experience and corporate branding; resulting in an increase in user engagement, revenue, and user base.
  • Maintained the design of all digital based marketing, company trade show collateral, and event booth printed design items.

Education

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  Keene State College

  BA, Art, Graphic Design • 2005