Experience

University of Michigan - Center for Academic Innovation

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior User Experience Designer

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Design, implement, test, and iterate on the Center's portfolio of educational software tools, collaborating with teams of Behavioral scientists and software engineers. Design, implement, test, and iterate on the Center's portfolio of educational software tools, collaborating with teams of Behavioral scientists and software engineers.



University of Michigan

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Art Services Supervisor

  • Oct 2006 - Jan 2022

  Multimedia Designer and Team Manager at the Center for Health Communications Research (CHCR).Manage a team of designers all working on public health interventions built on the web. My team designs, prototypes, tests, renders, illustrates, writes code, and animates to make our interventions and patients lives better. Multimedia Designer and Team Manager at the Center for Health Communications Research (CHCR).Manage a team of designers all working on public health interventions built on the web. My team designs, prototypes, tests, renders, illustrates, writes code, and animates to make our interventions and patients lives better.



InsideOut Literary Arts Project

• Creative Director

  • May 2004 - Oct 2007

  Creative Director, Graphic Designer, Graphic Design instructor, and publication coordinator.Coordinated the publication of 20+ literary magazines filled with poetry from students in Detroit Public Schools. Managed the submission of all writing and artwork. Collected, organized and processed all artwork prior to publication. Supervised independent graphic designers working on literary magazines.Designed and printed The Writer's Handbook to assist writers through their design. Designed and printed annual reports, marketing materials including postcards, t-shirts, posters, web banners for IO.Created animations / motion graphic teasers in Apple Motion and/or Flash and/or javscript for the IO website which showcased the annual collection of poetry by the group "Citywide Poets". Coded and maintained the InsideOut Website. Using PHPBB as a CMS wrote a front end PHP application to access the data (this was prior to Wordpress' popularity). Designed all graphics for the website, and maintained pages with current publications, news, events, staff members.Staff Photographer. Photographed most major events (either alongside or in lieu of Elayne Gross Photography).Ran the Literary Magazine Publication Center (LMPC). Taught high school students the fundamentals of graphic design and coached them to design their school's literary magazines. Taught basic art classes to middle school and high school students in Detroit (sculpture, drawing, collage)Maintained the LMPC's technical infrastructure: networked Macintoshes, maintained a central file server for all publication related files. Loved this job immensely.