• Collaborate with producers and editors to identify new opportunities for website product offerings, features, and functionality that reach the changing needs of the Journal audience.
• Design and develop online interactives from concept to production. Create sketches, wire frame diagrams, and prototypes in support of new and ongoing projects. Work in concert with developers and project managers.
• Ensure design solutions match brand and user expectations, are innovative, standards-based, and on time.

Interactive Production Artist, The Wall Street Journal Online, New York, NY
August 2003–June 2006
Projects and Accomplishments: Series Logo, Federal Reserve Monitor Page Re-design.

• Created and coordinated visual graphics that illustrate news stories and other editorial matter for use in daily news, breaking-news and long-term enterprise projects. Integral in the development of high-profile interactives on topics ranging from avian flu to the battleground polls.
• Designed and developed WSJ.com chart styles and templates
• Improved efficiency of evening production

Intern/USPS Domestic Mail Manual Project, CMU School of Design, Pittsburgh, PA
June 2002–June 2003
Project employed a user-centered design approach and an interdisciplinary team to improve the efficiency and clarity of a key USPS operational manual.

• Intimately involved with development of early prototypes for "A Guide to Mailing for Businesses and Nonprofit Organizations". Researched and assessed customer needs; developed information architecture; created artwork, typography and page design.
• Contributed art work and development of visualizations for representation of physical requirements for mail pieces (meters, stamps, permit imprints) and complex concepts like "sortation". Prior to the manual re-design, USPS used text only and not a visual display.

Explanatoids/Family Communications Inc., CMU School of Design, Pittsburgh, PA
January 2003–May 2003
Project objective was to help young people, particularly girls, explore math and science through real world questions.

• Created 30-second video clip, "Curveball Kitty" that illustrates the science behind a curveball and demonstrates that science can be fun. This video was shown on the PNC Park Jumbotron before each Pittsburgh Pirates' home game.

New Balance Advanced Fit Studio Project, CMU School of Design, Pittsburgh, PA
August 2002–December 2002

• Identified product opportunities for New Balance Advanced Fit System.
• Developed and implemented promotional concepts for a new product, including communication system, point of purchase and packaging.