It has been my great privilege to experience, learn and problem-solve in a range of environments and cultures: from the wild and wacky experience of a software start-up, to the extremes of Humvees in the desert and boots in the cold mud, to public schools and clinics along the Rio Grande, to financial and lifestyle services for veterans and their families, and even the design of an international professional conference. From start to finish, I am whole-heartedly hooked on UX.
Design - Q-interactive digital experienceDesigned the first digital experience of the flagship speech therapy diagnostic tool in the world.
Instituted quick-turn design studios in a major publishing company evolving from print to a digital world. Learn more |
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Amazon Web Services
Head of UX Research for Compute Rackspace Technology Head of Research Pearson Clinical Assessment Director of UX Design Senior UX Inside Consultant, UX Creative Lead USAA UX Research Lead Practitioner Consultant FalconDay Consulting UX Research, Design, and Consulting Applied Research Laboratories, Center for Agile Technology, and Institute for Advanced Technology, UT-Austin UX Lead for Design & Research |
PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Experimental Psychology HCI Methods, UX design, technology leadership MA, The University of Texas at Austin Experimental Psychology HCI Methods, UX design, team collaboration with engineering BS, University of Houston-Clear Lake Anthropology of Sub-Cultures Ethnography, cultural awareness in intervention solutions AA, Lon Morris College Sociology Disenfranchised groups and interventions |
Inaugural Graduate
Design Leadership Academy Menlo Park, California, 2015 Think: firehose Stanford D-school for leaders! Instructor Software Management Certification School of Engineering, UT-Austin, 5 yrs Professional certification (additional to non-interrupted UX production career) Conference Co-Chair User Experience Professionals Assoc International Conferences, 3 years Award-winning leadership and redesign of annual international event |