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Resume

Resume

Casey is a highly knowledgeable, collaborative, and energetic user experience designer who uses the power of research and empathy to design and develop great software experiences. By combining her knowledge of design, development, and accessibility, she strives to show that anything is possible to make other lives better.

Design career

Design specialties

  • Universal design (accessibility)
  • Design and content strategy
  • Health and wellness
  • Financial/insurance
  • Web and mobile app design
  • Software development assistance and prototyping

Experience

Senior User Experience Designer, 2017-present

At ActiveHealth Management, I:

  • Provide design and product research and direction for five product teams
  • Provide input and feedback into web and mobile style guides
  • Provide hands-on assistance to improve software development and accessibility design practices
  • Work across the organization to build relationships with different internal product teams
  • Champion accessibility across the organization, helping teams design and build in an accessible way

UX Specialist, 2015-2017

At Sandia National Laboratories (contracted with AIS), I:

  • Provided user research for five product teams
  • Provided input and feedback into corporate intranet style guide and user experience standards
  • Designed and developed prototypes used for usability testing and design guidance
  • Conducted usability testing and provide recommendations for improving products
  • Championed accessibility and mobile-first design

Interface Design Specialist, 2012-2015

At State Farm (contracted with Blackwell Global Consulting), I:

  • Provided design direction from project inception to deployment for seven product teams
  • Provided input and feedback into corporate style guide
  • Mentored and assisted fellow designers on how to use the design system to create pixel-perfect, accessible designs

Experience Designer, 2010-2012

At Lexmark International (contracted with AeroTek), I:

  • Provided design direction, code snippets, and quality assistance for five agile development teams across the world
  • Unified experience of printer applications with the out-of-the- box experience
  • Worked across the organization to build relationships with different internal design organizations

Lead Web Designer, 2009-2010

At GameZombie.tv, I:

  • Led design strategy and execution of GameZombie.tv
  • Led the company to win two 2010 Student Webby Awards

Additional relevant experience

  • Research Assistant, Shareable Interfaces Research Group, 2009-2010
  • Design Consultant, Hanapin Marketing, 2009
  • Associate Instructor, Indiana University, 2008-2010
  • Writing consultant, RPI Center for Communication Practices, 2007-2008

My skills and tools

Skills

Design:

  • Content and design strategy
  • Mobile apps
  • Paper prototyping
  • Responsive web design
  • Sketching
  • Storyboarding
  • Whiteboarding
  • Wireframing

User research:

  • Affinity diagramming
  • Card sorting
  • Competitive analysis
  • Contextual design
  • Heuristic evaluation
  • Interviews
  • Journey mapping
  • Paper prototyping
  • Participatory design
  • Usability testing

Tools

Rapid prototyping:

  • Axure
  • Adobe design suite
  • Affinity designer
  • Balsamiq Mockups
  • Microsoft Office
  • Sketch app

Software development:

  • Aria
  • Bootstrap
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
  • PHP
  • React
  • WCAG 2.0, 2.1
  • WordPress

Additional information

Education

  • MS, Human-Computer Interaction/design: Indiana University, 2010
  • BS, Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008
  • BS, Computer Science: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008

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