Experience

Lead UX Engineer

Planning Center, Carlsbad, CA
June 2024 — Present

Senior Front-End Designer

Planning Center, Carlsbad, CA
July 2018 — June 2024

• Designed and developed Church Center App — a congregant-facing React Native app for Android and iOS

Graphics/Multimedia Editor

The New York Times, New York, N.Y.
July 2015 — July 2018

• Designed and developed enterprise and multimedia story presentation
• Contributed to internal tools used by Digital News Design and the Graphics desk

News Application Designer

NPR, Washington, D.C.
April 2013 — June 2015

• Designed visuals and interactions for Visuals team projects
• Authored HTML, LESS, CSS, Javascript and Python to realize project designs in code
• Tested interfaces to improve user experience
• Contributed to the NPR Visuals app template, dailygraphics rig and other open-source tools used in our project stack

Senior User Experience Designer

NPR, Washington, D.C.
April 2011 — April 2013

• Led user interface design for StateImpact editorial platform and news applications
• Contributed to the front-end development of StateImpact’s Wordpress theme and special projects
• Collaborated with NPR user testing group to improve user experience

Senior Web Designer

Las Vegas Sun, Henderson, Nev.
February 2009 — April 2011

• Oversaw visual design and front-end development of LasVegasSun.com and its mobile counterpart
• Contributed to visual design and front-end development of LasVegasWeekly.com and 702.tv
• Developed user interface prototype for Las Vegas Weekly’s iPhone app

Design Producer

Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.
March 2008 — February 2009

• Led front-end development in Django, ColdFusion and Movable Type environments
• Collaborated with corporate user experience group to make site improvements based on usability testing
• Refined site markup and information architecture to reach search engine optimization goals

Webmaster

Wildwood Guitars, Louisville, Colo.
May 2006 — March 2008

• Oversaw design, front-end development, and content management of WildwoodGuitars.com

Photo Intern

The Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.
May 2006 — August 2006

• Shot photo assignments on deadline, edited images in digital darkroom for print reproduction

Online Content Producer

The Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.
January 2004 — May 2006

• Created web components for special reports with Flash graphics, audio, video and standards-based HTML/CSS design

Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

Bachelor of Science, News-Editorial Journalism

Colorado State University

Pre-Journalism

Skills

Fluent in Javascript, React, React Native, Node, HTML, CSS, SASS, Git, Visual Studio Code, Vim, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Lightroom

Proficient in Python, D3, Wordpress

Awards

2018 SND Best of Digital Design

Silver Medal
Story Page Design: News Features or Planned Coverage
The New York Times: Kidnapped as Schoolgirls

2016 SND Best of Digital Design

Silver Medal
Features: Single-subject project
The New York Times Magazine: The New York Issue

Award of Excellence
Features: Coverage
Inside Death Row

2014 SND Best of Digital Design

Gold Medal
Personal Portfolio

Silver Medal
Organization Portfolio
NPR Visuals

Silver Medal
Special Events
Election Party!

Silver Medal
Features, Single Subject
Songs We Love

2013 SND Best of Digital Design

Award of Excellence
Features Single-Story Project
NPR’s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2013’s Great Reads

Award of Excellence
Data project (Features)
Playgrounds For Everyone

Award of Excellence
Features Single-Story Project
Previously, On ‘Arrested Development’

2012 SND Best of Digital Design

Award of Excellence
Dried Out: Confronting the Texas Drought

Award of Excellence
Getting By, Getting Ahead: Voices of the New Hampshire Economy

2012 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

Silver Baton
StateImpact Pennsylvania

2011 EPpy Awards

Best Community Service on a Media-Affiliated Website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over
Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas

Best Business/Finance Website with 250,000 to 1 million unique monthly visitors
VegasInc, Greenspun Media Group

2011 SND Best of Digital News Design

Award of Excellence
Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas

Scripps Howard Awards

Investigative Reporting
Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas

2011 Goldsmith Awards

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas

2011 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards

Silver Baton
Bottoming Out: Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas

2010 Online Journalism Awards – Online Journalism Awards

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium Site
The Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Media Group

2010 EPpy Awards

Best News Website - Less than 1 million monthly visitors
LasVegasSun.com

Best Web Special Feature – Enterprise, Less than 1 million monthly visitors
Bottoming Out: Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas

2005 Online News Association – Online Journalism Awards

Outstanding Use of Multiple Media, First Place
Mission to Mante