Hello and welcome!

I've been a web developer since graduating from Purdue in 2001. After falling in love with UI design and UX, I decided to pursue my Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University (still a few classes away from graduating - hopefully this year!) Currently I'm working for an Ed Tech startup in Chicago, ThinkCERCA, in a combination role of both engineer and UX designer. Prior to this position I worked at the University of Notre Dame libraries and Discover Financial Services.

My most recent (publicly available) design and development work is available at http://www.the-apps-of.com.

Work experience

Sr. UX Engineer
ThinkCERCA
(5/2015 - Current)

Sr. User Experience Analyst,
Sr. Software Engineer
Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
(2007 - 2015)

Marketing ETL Developer,
Cardmember Database Developer,
Discover Financial
Riverwoods, IL
(2001 - 2007)

Full-Stack Developer

Education: 2001, B.S., Computer Technology, Purdue University

Technologies I'm currently using:

2 years	Ruby on Rails
5 years	PHP
5 years	MySQL (incl. scripting and optimization) / PostgreSQL
10 years	Javascript / jQuery / Ajax / Coffeescript / Angular JS / Ember JS
5 years	CSS / SCSS / Bootstrap / Material Design Lite
1 year	Mobile via Ionic/Angular/Cordova and jQuery Mobile/PhoneGap
10 years	Data modelling, advanced and warehousing
5 years	ETL and Report Development

view some of my software work

UX-er

Education: (2015), M.S., Human-computer Interaction, DePaul University

Techniques I use:

Advanced	Personas, storyboarding, scenarios
Advanced	User Inquiry (via Interviews, Surveys, etc)
Intermediate	Comparative Research
Basic	Google Analytics
Basic	Information Architecture
Intermediate	Wireframes/Prototyping using Axure
Intermediate	Mobile/Responsive Design
Basic	Usability testing with Morae

view some of my UX work