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User Experience Designer
Vodori
Chicago, IL
Aug 2013 - Mar 2014 (7 months)
Digital marketing firm that specializes in website design and user interface execution.
- Design user experience and user interface for enterprise-wide websites.
- Create information architecture to then design wireframes for web devices.
- Research competitors and implement QA testing.
- Redesign websites, online catalogs, internal and client intranet databases/tools.
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UI/UX Design Intern
Sprint Nextel
Overland Park, KS
May 2013 - Aug 2013 (3 months)
World headquarters of this $35B global cellular operator with focus on cell phone applications and service plans.
- Worked on a team to conceive a portfolio of new home automation system applications.
- Created new mobile device application ideas for a Sprint TV service that will enable in-home
health monitoring, smart home/predictive behavioral applications and personalized gaming.
- Designed and presented the final service prototype to the product development team.
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Industrial Design Intern
R2FACT INC.
Kansas City, MO
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012 (3 months)
Industrial design firm that creates new products from concept through design, engineering, prototyping and manufacturing.
- Translated conceptualization briefs into ideation drawings to progress onto 3D computer models.
- Directed Asian manufacturers and local suppliers to create working prototypes for new products.
- Critiqued existing products for potential design enhancements.
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Product Development Intern
The Bradford Exchange
Niles, IL
May 2011 - Jul 2011 (2 months)
Product development intern for a $200M manufacturer and marketer of holiday décor and collectible goods.
- Conceptualized products, completed product drawings and presented new holiday tabletop ideas to senior management.
- Critiqued product sculpts versus two-dimensional product drawings (using Photoshop), resulting in modifications to finished products.
- Conducted market research on competitors and new trends in the holiday décor and collectibles industries.