Senior Web/Interactive Designer: Chief Manufacturing
Savage, MN – 2007-2010

Designed and maintained a variety of different sites for an industry leading manfacturing company and its partners including Best Buy, Dell, and Sony. Worked in a leadership role focused on improving user experience and planning new sites.

• Designed sites for different audiences including investors, customers and employees including Chief's site featuring thousands of products and around 500,000 page views per month.
• Found creative solutions for code, usability and scalability issues.
• Implemented usability improvements discovered through user testing, analyzing statistics and industry research.
• Led design meetings, managed web projects with tight deadlines and coordinated deliverables from team members and external vendors.
• Used social media to increase customer involvement and reach new users.

Designer/Project Manager: TC Websites LLC
Eden Prairie, MN – 2004-2010

Founded a partnership focused on building professional websites for small businesses. Worked with business owners to plan, design, host, market and maintain their web presence.

• Managed, designed and coded a variety of web projects from planning to completion.
• Created a reseller hosting account and maintained websites and services (email, SEO, WordPress) for clients.
• Consulted with clients to provide new ideas to effectively communicate their company's message through websites, social media, email and print.
• Founded an LLC and took on responsibilities including accounting, filing taxes, sales and writing contracts.

Web Assistant: CLA-NET University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN – 2001-2003

Worked with a team of designers to create departmental websites for the University’s College of Liberal Arts. Collaborated with department chairs and professors to plan designs and then created web standards compliant sites using Dreamweaver.

• Assisted a variety of departments to create web sites conforming to the University's specifications.
• Learned how to create accessible web pages with CSS, semantic HTML code and tested them using a screen-reader.

User Experience Design Intern: Techies.com
Bloomington, MN – 2000-2001

Interned with the User Experience Team at Techies.com to design websites and banner advertisements. Learned web-industry tools and techniques from experienced professionals while working at a large .com start-up.

• Earned the opportunity to be chosen as the design intern at Techies.com after graduating from high school.
• Participated in planning meetings and worked with designers and developers to learn the process of designing a large website.
• Designed banner advertisements, an internal site for posting design projects and the Techies.com media kit site.