An award-winning technical manager with over 13 years of experience analyzing business requirements, designing, building, and directing highly-trafficked web sites, portals, intranets, and web-based and mobile applications.

• Experienced Executive
  Excellent organizational, people management, communication, finance, and problem-solving skills. Professional, diplomatic, and tactful.
• Exceptional Business Experience
  From setting strategy and vision to managing budgets and resource planning; from establishing partnerships and negotiating contracts.
• World-class Information Architect
  Expert in delivering high-quality interaction design artifacts for complex, global, interactive web applications.  Excellent visual design skills.
• Well-rounded
  Varied experience across technologies – application development, technical instructor, product management, and corporate IT – and industries – finance, advertising, fashion, film, manufacturing, digital agency, and consulting.

University Education

Miami University

Oxford, OH

• Bachelor of Arts – Psychology
• Minor in Marketing
• Developed and maintained Department of English website

Continuing Education

Edward Tufte: Presenting Data and Information

December 2007

New York, NY

• Fundamental strategies of analytical and interface design.

Jacob Nielsen: Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability

May 2006

New York, NY

• Understanding user behavior on the web and developing guidelines for improving usability.

Parsons The New School for Design: Graphic Design

Summer 2005

New York, NY

• Completed a 12-week course studying design fundamentals and concept development as they relate to typography, composition, and color.
• Studied under Luba Lukova, an internationally renowned graphic artist and designer.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

October 1999

Philadelphia, PA

• ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) Certification for SAP R/3
• Certification topics include: ABAP Memory, ABAP Open SQL, Authority-checks, Background Processing, BDC, Data, Dialog Programming, Field-symbols, File Processing, Flow Control, Functions, Internal Tables, Logical Units of Work, Macros, Reporting, Structures, Subroutines, Tasks/Change Requests, and Variables.

Time Out Chicago (Time Out Guides)

Penguin Press.

Researched and authored two chapters of an internationally published travel guide to Chicago, Illinois.

Euromoney Magazine Technology Awards

Lead Interaction Designer (Lehman Brothers 2003)

• 1st Place: Best Electronics Equities Post-Trade Services
• 1st Place: Best Electronic Services for Repo
• High commendations for firm's electronic equities, FX post-trade services, online FX research and analytics and online research.