Creative Designer
Visual Thinker
Art Teacher
Metalsmith
Painter
Creator
I'm a designer, dedicated to crafting cohesive brand experiences and intuitive interfaces that genuinely impact how people engage with a product. With a background spanning brand identity, iconography, and product design, I thrive where aesthetic meet usability.
My process is grounded in understanding user needs, championing accessibility, and building scalable design systems. Whether I'm defining the visual language for a new product or refining an existing experience. I believe that great design should be as purposeful as it is beautiful.
Resume
Experience
UX/UI Product Designer
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Collaborated weekly as sole designer with developers and product managers to refine project goals and enhance usability, utilizing Agile methodologies.
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Selected a new color palette for the company that will meet WCAG 2.2 compliance and created a library of 100+ unique icons, enhancing visual consistency and fluency across all company products.
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Designed and implemented a new user interface for OffenderWatch software, incorporating a modern color scheme and ensuring ADA compliance to enhance accessibility for users.
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Enhanced usability and redesigned the verification carousel in the OffenderWatch software, improving user navigation and increasing user satisfaction based on feedback.
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Designed a professional logo using Figma for OffenderWatch's new product, Verify, enhancing brand visibility and user engagement.
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Designed the user interface layout for the new Verify software product using Figma, incorporating company colors and icons to enhance visual consistency and improve user interaction.
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Collaborated on the product concept and design of the Mobile App (Remote Express) for OffenderWatch software, creating 100+ screens that illustrated user flows and developed a prototype, incorporating stakeholder feedback to refine the app's functionality.
WatchSystems, LLC
Mandeville, LA
Art Teacher and Event Coordinator
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Planned and helped coordinate 100's of parties and public events on mobile Art Bus
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Taught art to over 500 students at multiple schools in the mobile Art Bus
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Responsible for creating and implementing art lessons and curriculum for the school year for grades kindergarten through 7th grade
Art Bus NOLA
Gretna, LA
Art Teacher and Computer Teacher
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Worked collaboratively with grade levels for specific joint lessons
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Managed and optimized a budget over $3000
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Established art curriculum for 1st - 7th grades over 350 students
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Established computer curriculum for 7th grade
Immaculate Conception School
Marrero, LA
Design Skills
Software
User Research
Usability Testing
User Personas
User Flows
Information Architecture
Wireframing
Prototyping
Familiar with HTML, CSS
Competitor Analysis
Figma
Marvel
Balsamiq
Canva
Power Point
Google Slides
Keynote
Professional skills
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Collaborating with development, and stakeholders
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Detail-oriented in planning curriculum, projects or events
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Critical Thinking and Problem solver for projects
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Plan spaces and projects to be organized in classroom and on Art Bus
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Strong Visual Art skills: design, color theory
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Coordinated events and multiple plans teaching art and working on mobile Art Bus
Education
Ux Design Certification
Online certification for UX Design, with a specialization in UI Design
Career Foundry
careerfoundry.com
Alternate Teaching Certificate
Curriculum to provide a teaching certificate for grades 1st - 8th
Certified 1st - 12th Art
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts with a metal and silversmithing concentration
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA