Experience

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  Osmos

  • Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

  • Head of Design

    • Jan 2024 - Present
    • Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

    Working closely with founders, engineers, customer success, and clients to create the next way to move clean, map, and import external data to operational systems.

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  Anchor & Alpine

  • United States
  • Design
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • The Captain & Principal Partner

    • Dec 2019 - Jan 2024

    Anchor & Alpine creates brands, illustrations, print, and web projects for companies that care about creativity, performance, UX, and security. ✓ Beautiful & Hard Working Brands✓ Award-Winning Original Illustration✓ Physical & Portable Print Work✓ Noteworthy Websites & User Interfaces✓ WordPress, Squarespace, & Bespoke Websites✓ Delightful & Efficient UX✓ Security In EverythingWith specific attention to mid-size companies doing good work. We always love to learn new things!

  • Sabbatical

    • Jul 2019 - Dec 2019

    Coming off the Bay Area and Startup lifestyle, I took the summer and fall to explore business opportunities, write another book, and chill out. This time eventually led to the merger and acquisition of Emerson Stone, Sawaya Consulting, and Coast To Coast Studio. https://www.prweb.com/releases/sawaya_consulting_has_acquired_emerson_stone_merged_with_coast_to_coast_studio_and_created_a_new_company_called_anchor_alpine/prweb16767505.htm

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  Zorroa

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • EVP of UX & Product (ML UI Startup)

    • Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    This startup was a longtime client of Sawaya Consulting (now named Anchor & Alpine). ✓ Executive, Officer, and Keyman in the $7M VC Funding through Gradient Ventures. ✓ Joined as the 5th employee and helped grow the organization 600% in just over a year.✓ Headed the UX & Product disciplines (UX, UI, Product Design, and Product Management).✓ Designed the main user interface that would continue as the base for the current product.✓ Created unique search methods called widgets to map searches to users' mental models.✓ Helped form the creative discipline and design thinking of the organization.

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  Anchor & Alpine

  • Greater Salt Lake City Area

  • Partner at Sawaya Consulting (now Anchor & Alpine)

    • Jun 2006 - Nov 2017
    • Greater Salt Lake City Area

    For a little over a decade I ran Sawaya Consulting with my partner. Keeping clients, projects, consultants, budgets and time frames aligned and working smoothly was always central to our business. Beyond the UX, web, and technical skills—we know how to create project success.✓ Created hundreds of projects, supported thousands of people, and made millions of dollars for our clients.✓ Ran an ethical business focused on supporting our community, doing good work for a fair price, and taking care of our clients first and foremost. ✓ Thousands of hours of expertise in UI Design, Product Design, and User Experience—resulting in two patents and several awards. ✓ Worked with an impressive client list including Action Target, Avalanche Software | WB Games, Boart Longyear, HealthEquity, Raytheon, Sharpr, Stanford University, and Technicolor.

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  Galileo Processing

  • Creative Director

    • Feb 2006 - Feb 2009

    Galileo Processing is an industry-leading, credit, debit, and prepaid card and payment processor. We worked with both clients (program managers) and end-user customers. As the head of the creative department, I built and oversaw the team responsible for all corporate and client communications, including websites, card plastic, and printed collateral.✓ Successfully navigated good design with banking regulations. ✓ Built an in-house design agency that became a profit center. ✓ Created full branding and collateral packages for Visa and MasterCard card programs.

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  COGBOX

  • Designer

    • Jul 2004 - Feb 2006

    Fast-paced agency work, involved in conceptualization, production and client relations. Worked on a wide range of projects including brand creation and management, web design and development, print and interactive design and production. Exposed to a wide variety of full-service aspects including production schedule management, search marketing, knowledge production techniques, testing and verification, database set up and administration.

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  AIGA Salt Lake CIty

  • Sponsorhip Chair

    • Aug 2004 - Oct 2005

    As the Sponsorship Chair of the local chapter of the AIGA I was responsible for raising money to keep the chapter solvent. I helped organize the annual golf tournament, 100 Show Dinner and other events. In this position I learned a lot about running and funding a 501(c)3 organization and was also able to meet and work with several of the decision makers in the industry.

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  Workers Compensation Fund

  • Creative Director

    • Sep 2002 - Jul 2004

    Created all in-house and some external communications. Brand management and further definition. Projects included quarterly newsletter to policy holders, annual reports, advertisements.

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  University of Utah Health

  • Graphic Designer

    • Jun 2000 - May 2002

    Create print promotions for five entities housed in Student Health Service. Projects include a semi-monthly newspaper article, posters, logos, letterheads, brochures, and 3-D displays.

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  modern8

  • Intern

    • Jun 2001 - Aug 2001

    Production work, helped with the design of a few projects, dropped off and picked up proofs from the printer and reviewed them with the client, and observed an initial client consultation.