Education

Skills

Experience

• Ford Motors Design System
• Conducted secondary research on components to establish interaction and usage guidelines.
• Primary research on components to ensure design aligned with user behavioral patterns.
• Produced wireframes and prototypes to inform UI exploration by visual designers.

• Designed and coded front end messaging experience.
• Organized and conducted primary and secondary research that informed the design of the messaging experience.
• Designed conversational UI for the messaging experience.
• Responsible for creating artifacts for the team members such as journey maps, conversation flows, wireframes, prototypes and personas.

• Designed and coded an Engaged for Success system that is used to engage faculty and advisors with their students, helping to ensure success in the classroom.
• Project lead for redesigning and coding of the institution’s Intranet application myLWC. https://portal.lindsey.edu
• Using Coldfusion, designed and coded REST APIs for B2B transactions. https://api.lindsey.edu
• Utilizing surveys, research and usability studies I was able to create a basis for redesigning Lindsey Wilson’s public website and strategically aligned the design by targeting prospective students.
• Worked with in-house developers and coded Lindsey Wilson’s website. http://www.lindsey.edu. The site is responsive using Bootstrap and media queries.
• Coded Lindsey Online’s website using Bootstrap: http://online.lindsey.edu
• Designed a RaiderBucks system whereby students could add funds to their student ID and utilized by various vendors on campus.
• Created a card scanning system that is used in the Dining Center and Wellness Center to ensure proper access into these facilities.
• A POS and Inventory Management system was designed and developed. This system integrated with Student Accounts, Financial Aid and Finance modules of the institutions ERP.
• Designed and developed a web application called myReports which allows individuals to build reports using data warehouses and data marts that have been created in-house.
• Responsible for developing data warehouses and data marts that brings together relevant data used by executives and key members of staff to analyze data for the support of critical decisions.
• Designed and developed a wide range of reports and utilities that make business units across campus more efficient.
• Responsible for setting up and managing nightly processes using PL/SQL.

• Web Applications I – an introduction to Web application development using HTML, CSS, Responsive frameworks, JavaScript, jQuery and ColdFusion.
• Web Applications II – focuses on web application framework and advanced ColdFusion techniques. Topics covered include ColdFusion components, user defined functions, AJAX, JSON, APIs, advanced database techniques, user interface, and banded report writing.
• Capstone Project – students build a functional web application which includes the design of the database and user interface components.
• Interactive Programming – students extend beyond static code construction and are introduced to the fundamentals of interactive dynamic programming practices. Topics include orchestrating multiple languages, PHP programming and introduction to open source databases.
• Computer Graphics I – an introduction to the creation of art within a digital environment. Students investigate basic digital illustration techniques, image manipulation, principles of graphic design, and other digital image editing software applications.

• Mainframe – While at FTL I developed and utilized my skills with Cobol, CICS, DB2, IMS, SAS and VSAM by developing and maintaining systems in the following business areas: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Sales, Marketing, Marketing Research and Invoicing. In addition to this, I was able to develop a corporate forecasting system using Lotus 123/M and DB2. This system was deployed to the sales and marketing divisions in Europe, Japan, Canada and the United States.
• PC Software – I used Clipper, Foxpro and Visual Basic to develop applications for the PC. One of these applications, Activewear Order Entry, was deployed to the salesmen in the field which provided them with the ability to take orders from their clients and transmit them to FTL via the IBM Network/EDI.
• Client Server Architecture – The last 1.5 years at FTL were spent developing client server applications using Powerbuilder. The most significant of these was our Activewear EIS system. This system reported sales, orders, point of sale as well as forecasting information to our Activewear division. This application was also used by our Customer Service department to track orders for our customers.