Experience
Work Experience
Below is a short list of my professional and UX Design experience in the retail industry. Each role contributed to both creative and professional growth in design experience and leadership. I have also been involved in several side projects that include non-profit pro-bono work, and "just-for-fun" stuff. For more information on any of my work, please get in touch.
Skills
Relevant Skills and Behaviors
- 16 years of retail sales and inventory experience
- 6 years of metadata craft, strategy, and quantitative user research, including 3 as an Item Data Analyst, before promotion to Sr Product Designer in 2018
- 5 years designing responsive web products, both customer-facing and enterprise
- 1 year designing for Android apps
- 2 years of virtual volunteer work for projects at the Smithsonian, University of Minnesota Mapping Prejudice Project, and digital navigation search support for Black-Owned small businesses in Minnesota
- 2 years as a design mentor for StepUp Achieve Minneapolis and Target Rise UX program
- 4 years as a Navigation Behavior Research specialist, expertly recruiting and conducting search and navigation usability studies, user interviews for discovery research, analyzing quantitative metrics, and presenting all gathered data to Executive-level stakeholders