Accomplishments

• Managed Cincinnati Art Museum 2010 public website redesign resulting in a 200 increase in site visits, 65 increase in ecommerce and increased donations. End user research and user experience design practices were key to the experience strategy.
• Directed redesign of the Cincinnati Art Museum's graphic identity. Worked with the high profile graphic design firm Thonik to create a brand manual and style guide for the institution.
• Managed the design and development of the museum's first mobile app, 6,000 Years of Art. Led user research, prototyping, UI design and usability studies.
• Managed the acquisition and implementation of enterprise digital asset management
• solution. This platform is used to push data to the public website and iphone/ipad app.
• Served as a member of senior management of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Responsible for all creative services and working with multiple stakeholders to create vision and execute projects. All projects were delivered on time and on or under budget. Team of 6 averaged 500 projects annually.
• Efforts contributed to the museum's 2nd highest annual attendance in 130 years of

skill set

• Site Maps, Wireframes, User Research, Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Personas, Archetypes, Use Cases, User Stories, Content Analysis, Content Inventory, Competitive Analysis,
• Comparative Analysis, Card Sorting, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, HTML/CSS/jQuery Prototyping, Creative Briefs, Mobile User Experience, Adobe Creative Suite, Publication and Studio Photography, Offset Printing, Color Management Workflow, Html, CSS, javascript, jquery, json, ajax, PHP, Wordpress, Joomla, SEO, Balsamiq, Axure.

employment history

Confidential

NetLaw Group Inc., UX Architect

• NetLaw is a technology company in Louisville Kentucky developing web application products for the legal field. I was hired on to help bring the products to market. Web application and mobile UX research, experience strategy and design.
• Performs system evaluation current state, report issues and suggest fixes based on analysis of research data
• Conducts A/B testing to compare effectiveness of different User interfaces

3. Experienced in conducting user surveys to gain more product insight

4. Ability to develop wireframes and higher - fidelity prototypes preferred tools: Adobe Photoshop, Lucid Charts

5. Skilled at using core Adobe Design products Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, etc. .

6. Ability to develop user flows to demonstrate user movement through a system

7. Experienced in Storytelling to engage emotions of users in context of UX

8. Familiar with design patterns and possess the ability to develop custom patterns specifically for Netlaw product offerings where applicable

9. Experienced in developing user profiles and personas

10. Familiarity with methodologies and tools that assist in content inventory, content style guides, wire framing, prototyping, A/B testing, and user experience analytics.

11. Prefer background in Bronto template design

12. Experience working with Office products PowerPoint and Word and designing sleek presentations and documents, whether exporting from a Word product to an Adobe product or using the native Office application.

13. Strong communication skills: Ability to communicate ideas effectively in laymen's terms.

14. Preferential treatment will be given to candidates with marketing experience in the financial services and/or non-profit industry.

• Tactics used to accomplish these goals include user research, persona development, archetype exploration, user experience design, content strategy, information architecture, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, search engine optimization, collection digitization and digital asset management.

Confidential

Director of Design and Dissemination

Senior management charged with the development of creative and experience strategy, project management, execution, and streamlining internal processes. Managed a staff of 5 6 full time employees to facilitate all digital and print creative, serve as art museum brand champions and direct all public/front facing technology in gallery interactives, information centers, website, microsites, mobile applications .

Website Redesign,

• Envisioned Cincinnati Art Museum digital experience, proposed a user centric public website to executive staff and board of directors. Secured 250k in funding to produce site.
• Conducted front end focus groups with internal stakeholders, members and the public. Developed user archetypes, analyzed data to develop user-centered site architecture.
• Directed wireframe development and internal prototype testing. Directed contractors on user interface UI and user experience UX design. Facilitated internal usability testing and ongoing end-user evaluation

Confidential

Served as UX Lead on this project.

Mobile app development,

• Developed RFP for iPhone/iPad searchable collection mobile application
• Worked collaboratively with developer to design UX/UI
• Served as UX Lead on this project.

Confidential

Tied to design explorations related to the website redesign, I collaborated with world class design firms Pentagram and Thonik to develop the museum's graphic identity, system and style guide. User research contributed to the creative strategy of this project.

Digital Asset Management Implementation

Developed RFP for institution's digital asset management contract

Developed specifications and workflow for system implementation

Integrated DAM and developed workflow for ingest of 60K digital assets

Confidential

Cincinnati Art Museum, Chief Photographer

• Scheduled/Prepared/Planned: Photography:
• Permanent collection, temporary exhibitions
• Building and grounds, marketing and general photography
• Managed departmental budget.
• Production Supervisor: Museum's exhibition catalogs and publications
• Established full life cycle workflow: Promoted quality control from photography to print
• Developed in-house copyright and intellectual property policies
• Managed full time employees and photo studio
• Grant writing resulted in an overall total of 900K over a 5 year period.
• Co-Chaired Project Access cross divisional committee
• Developed/Directed collection digitization and access program Project Access
• Timeline plan for collection digitization
• Developed scanning and digitization workflow
• Created image licensing program
• Sales model: Resulted in 40 increase in published collection works
• Senior Project Manager - film to digital transition
• Designed Art Museum digital photography studio
• Developed digital photography workflow and guidelines and equipment specifications
• Facilitated: acquisition/installation of digital studio equipment 150k

Confidential

Owner, Hisey Mitchell Photography LLC

Hisey-Mitchell Photography LLC provides photographic services to the cultural heritage community and private collectors of art. Aside from traditional photography services, HMP provides consultation on rapid digitization, graphic design services, website and mobile UX/UI development, gallery interactive development and book production services.