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About

Senior UX designer, ten years of asking better questions.

I solve business problems by uncovering the why behind user behavior and adapting the design to lead users toward desired outcome. I have worked across healthcare, education and finance, and I advocate for user research, accessibility and measurable outcomes.

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Experience

  1. 2022, 2023 – Present

    UX Designer

    The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center · Columbus, OH (remote, contract)

    • Support four web properties — wexnermedical.osu.edu, medicine.osu.edu, cancer.osu.edu and health.osu.edu — with over 1.5 million combined monthly visitors.
    • Cut time per page built by 50% on health.osu.edu.
    • Manage sites with over 20,000 pages, working with 20+ marketing specialists.
    • Use Microsoft Clarity behavior data to inform content and layout decisions.
    • Completed WCAG 2.2 training and partner with accessibility coordinators on solutions.
  2. Sep 2022 – Dec 2022

    UX Designer / UX Researcher

    Ingage Partners (client: Possip) · Cincinnati, OH (remote)

    • Led a three-month end-to-end project: discovery, interviews, prototyping, usability testing and handoff.
    • Ran a heuristic evaluation, 15 interviews across 3 user groups, and behavior analysis into personas and journeys.
    • Designed a persona-driven dashboard and universal navigation within the client's existing style guide.
  3. Aug 2019 – Jan 2022

    Marketing Coordinator/Graphic Designer

    Cellucom Group · Columbus, OH

    • Built a B2B knowledge hub: +15% customer retention and +10% toward annual NPS goals.
    • Communication strategy for a compensation change cut related support calls by 20%.
  4. 2011 – 2019

    Business Owner

    Camomint Photography · Columbus, OH

    • Interviewed 20+ customers, identified pain points, built personas and a booking-focused website.
  5. 2006 – 2011

    Earlier

    British American Tobacco · BNP Paribas · Direct Group · Moscow, Russia

    • Media analysis, retail banking launch campaigns across 20 branches, and data-driven catalog production for a $120M direct-mail business.
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Skills

  • UX Research
  • User Interviews
  • Usability Testing
  • Surveys
  • Data Analysis & Reports
  • Personas & Journeys
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Information Architecture
  • Content Strategy
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
  • Human Factors
  • Branding

Tools

  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Hotjar
  • Microsoft Clarity
  • Dovetail
  • Optimal Workshop
  • Otter.ai
  • Zeplin
  • Jira
  • WorkFront
  • Sitecore
  • Airtable

Education & certifications

  • BA with honors, Journalism & Graphic Design
    Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2004
  • Nanodegree in User Experience
    Udacity, 2021
  • Google Data Analytics
    2024

Volunteer

UX designer and researcher at GiveBackHack Columbus (2021, 2022). Team DigiDoula won $5,000 in funding; Team Sidewalk Sidekick won $7,500 and I kept testing and improving the prototype with them for 12 months.

Want to talk about a research problem?

I'm happy to look at a screen, a support queue or a set of interview notes and tell you what I'd do next.