Skills

User Personas / User Testing / User Interviews / Wireframing / Prototyping / Visual Design / Style Guides / Illustration / Painting / Proofreading / Editing / QA

Software

Figma / Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat

Experience

Marvel Entertainment, LLC //  Digital Compositor / Jun 2016 - Present

  • Conduct in-depth QA for digital trades, having ensured quality for more than 800 collections.

  • Improve customer satisfaction by reviewing digital trades in app/on devices for image quality and usability errors.

  • Assemble digital editions of print trades, reviewing 5-10 books a week.

  • Check trade files and layouts to make pages compatible for digital format in order to send high-quality files to vendors.


Freelance Proofreading // 2019, 2021

  • Proofread creator’s self-published editions of Check, Please! (Chirpbook, Check, Please! Year Four).

  • Improved grammar, corrected copy, and noted design errors.

  • Performed rigorous quality control passes to ensure material remained consistent and kept to high printing standards.


Pennoni Honors College STARS Program // 3D Historical Modeler / Summer 2010

  • Worked on a two-person team recreating 18th century colonial artifacts at Independence National Hall as 3D models using Maya.

  • Collaborated with archaeologists to update a 3D model of the historic Dexter House by populating it with our artifact models.

  • Presented findings at the International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies in Vienna.

Projects

5 Minute Fit - Case Study // Feb 2022 - Apr 2022

  • Created designs for a native mobile fitness app that helps people fit exercise back into their daily schedules

  • Built an interactive mobile prototype in Figma and established a cohesive visual branding/UI design for the project across different breakpoints, including mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Open Studio - Case Study // July 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Designed a responsive native mobile app to help people connect with experts to learn new creative skills.

  • Conducted user research/testing, and built an interactive prototype in Figma for both mobile and desktop breakpoints.

Check, Please! Promotional Postcard // Dec 2021

  • Illustrated a commissioned postcard for the creator’s self-published edition of Check, Please! Year Four. Created digitally and made ready for print as a part of the project’s promotional materials.

Education

CareerFoundry UX Design Certificate Program // Online Course / Completed April 2022

Savannah College of Art and Design // MFA in Animation

Drexel University, Pennoni Honors College // BS in Design Arts, Minor in Fine Arts - Digital Media Concentration