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103 County Road 4223, Decatur, TX
76234
Serving as the Creative Director / Lead UX Designer for Simplenight includes
responsibilities such as managing the UX team while also heavily contributing
and “setting the tone” from a visual design standpoint, prioritizing tasks for the
team and emphasizing alignment with the design language and product
roadmap.
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Creative Director, Lead UX Designer, Simplenight
Miami, FL (Remote) - November 2023 to Present
Principal UX Designer, Sabre Spark (Enterprise Design Language)
Southlake, TX - 2015 to November 2023
Played an integral Visual Design role in creating Sabre’s very first Enterprise
Design Language. Full-spectrum of efforts , such as creating core design
foundations and complex components to be absorbed by top-tier Sabre products
along with training / consulting / mentorship tasks sprinkled on top.
In addition to my work within the Spark (EDL) team, the creative direction I
provided to UX design leads and developers within individual product teams
proved pivotal when creating consistency across all Sabre products.
Senior UX Designer, Sabre Airline Solutions
Southlake, TX - 2013 to 2015
Creation of mobile branding options and visual concepts for current (and
potential) Sabre customers. Responsible for the visual design of team-wide
marketing materials related to existing and conceptual Airline Solutions products.
These materials included concept boards, presentation designs and signage.
Provided Creative Direction along with creating visual enhancements across new
and existing desktop / mobile products. This direction stems from a
(design-driven) highly-collaborative team effort, which ultimately, helped bridge
the gap between UX and Development teams.
Senior UX Designer, GetThere (Sabre)
Southlake, TX - 2008 to 2013
Responsible for creating conceptual mockups based on team-wide collaboration
in order to help visually fill the GetThere UX gaps. These Visual Design efforts
ranged from enhancing existing features and products to creating entirely new
looks for the GetThere booking tool (mobile and desktop).
Managed all UX needs among multiple projects, including the Air, Car and Sabre
Virtual Meeting products. These responsibilities include creating mockups,
sketches, prototypes for each product or feature along with frequent coordination
/ communication with the product marketing and development teams.
Actively involved in usability testing of multiple GetThere products and features.
Usability responsibilities include heavy coordination with the Human Factors and
Product Marketing teams to determine the goals and UX efforts for each study,
creating mockups, producing a functional prototype, observing each study and
participating in post-study brainstorming sessions. On average, our team
conducted 10-12 studies per year.
Web Designer, Travelocity (Sabre)
Southlake, TX - 2007 to 2008
Designed several flash-based, destination-specific landing pages for the
Travelocity ExperienceFinder team. Responsibilities included creating the initial
header collage within Photoshop and once approved, animating the header within
Flash to finish the product.
Responsible for creating internal/external promotional sites and materials
including the graphics, animation, iconography and functionality maintenance
associated with each.
Designed flash-based advertisements and components to help increase
click-through rates and improve the overall user experience. The majority of these
advertisements were customer-driven promotional pieces.
Lead Designer, Lankford Media Group
Dallas, TX - 2005 to 2007
Provided key Creative Direction, prioritized projects for each team member and
managed the team budget. Responsible for leading the conceptual work, design
and production of web-based material, marketing materials, logo design,
presentations, motion graphics and video editing.
Creative Developer, New Media Gateway
Dallas, TX - 2005
Designed and maintained several sites, including creating animation and
presentation materials, along with coordinating with the Sales and Marketing
teams to insure the success of each project.
Responsible for the design of several animation-rich multimedia presentations for
DVD and the web. Tasks included designing an overall presentation theme,
creating all supporting graphics to be used within the animation and syncing the
animation to the provided voice-over track.
Freelance Designer, Tp3media
Abilene, TX - 2002 to 2005
Designed and produced print materials including business cards, logo
development, brochures, menus, t-shirts and vehicle graphics.
Responsible for designing and maintaining several sites, advertisements,
flash-based elements and videos for clients located in the Abilene area along with
producing a local 16-page bi-weekly publication which included complete layout
design, ad design and content placement.
Senior Designer, Multimark Communications
Dallas, TX - 2001 to 2002
Designed several sites for high-profile businesses and sports teams, such as the
Dallas Cowboys Golf Club, along with being responsible for the visual design of
several large residential property sites and multimedia presentations.
Senior Web Designer, MetroplexWeb, Inc.
Irving, TX - 2000 to 2001
Designed numerous sites, start to finish, for several high-profile clients in the DFW
area. Responsibilities included visual design, Flash animation, HTML
development and maintenance. Also designed and maintained internal projects,
including sites and print-based marketing materials.
EDUCATION
Texas State Technical College (Waco, TX)
Commercial Arts and Advertising - 1997 to 1999
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Visual Design
Creative Direction
Communicating Design / Best Practices
Web, Mobile and Graphic Design
Motion Graphics
Figma
Adobe CC Apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc)
Sketch
Usability Testing
Information Architecture
And More!
REFERENCES
There’s just too many to list, I’m that popular. Available upon request.
