Resumé

ELIZABETH HUNT
1248 Pennsylvania Street #3, Denver, CO 80203
415.816.1880
eh@ezoehunt.com
www.ezoehunt.com

Driven creative leader known for strategic design thinking, asking tough questions, and simplifying the complex. Passionate about possibilities and connections between tangible and digital arenas. Interested in positions where my user experience and academic backgrounds help create meaningful experiences in new (and old) spaces.

STRENGTHS
Strategic design
Creative direction
Storytelling and narrative
Business process design
Prototyping

INTERESTS
Design research and methods
Urbanism
Everyware
Personal informatics
Making new things and thinking about them

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Experience Designer
Crispin, Porter + Bogusky
Boulder, CO
Jul 2009 - Feb 2011
Provide strategic and interaction design leadership for clients. Work with internal teams to conceive and develop innovative cross-channel experiences, including websites, mobile, and instore/retail, and social media experiences, as well as business process design. Clients included American Express Travel, American Express OPEN, Microsoft, and Volkswagen.

Associate Creative Director
AKQA
San Francisco, CA Apr 2007 - Apr 2009
Led teams in transforming insights into strategy and design for interactive experiences for Target, ING, and Visa clients. Managed the interaction design group. Mentored art directors, designers, and copywriters. Led concepting and strategy for agency pitch efforts, including winning the ING business.

Senior Interaction Designer
AKQA
San Francisco, CA Apr 2006 - Mar 2007
Conceived and developed innovative digital concepts for clients such as Target and Nike. Helped establish IxD as a practice/discipline in the AKQA SF office. Provided strategic and creative leadership on multiple projects, as well as represented the IxD practice for new business pitches.

Senior Interaction Designer
Convergys Corporation (formerly DigitalThink)
San Francisco, CA Nov 2002 - Mar 2006
Led teams in designing and implementing custom training solutions for B2B clients. Identified business requirements and objectives and used these to define learning approach, course-level objectives, audience, and requirements.

Information & Web Designer
2Plus2 Partners
Emeryville, CA
Feb 2001 - Nov 2002
Consulted with clients to define architecture, user interface, integration, and design requirements for web-based software and websites. Also responsible for rapid HTML prototyping, production, testing, and review.

Senior UI & Web Designer
Cymerc Exchange
San Francisco, CA May 2000 - Feb 2001
Senior web designer for B2B auction site. Designed and executed new products and features, as well as managed email marketing program.

Web Designer
Smith&Hawken.com
Novato, CA
Sep 1999 - May 2000
Web designer for B2C commerce site. Designed and coded new features, updated existing features, and managed production of email newsletters.

University Instructor
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
Aug 1994 - May 1998
Taught 4-6 courses per year in the English department. Courses included Exposition, Analysis and Argument, Advanced Expository Writing, and Introduction to Literature.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. English Literature
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Graduated with Distinction.
Dissertation nominated for the Popejoy Prize.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Design: In Design, Visio, Omnigraffle, some Axure, Photoshop, Illustrator

Development: PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, some Java

Tools: Content management, version control, bug tracking, project management

RECOMMENDATIONS + PORTFOLIO
Recommendations available at LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/ezoehunt)

Work samples available in my online portfolio (ezoehunt.com/work)

Samples of UX documentation available on request (eh@ezoehunt.com)

Projects by Elizabeth Hunt