​SUMMARY
Elizabeth is collaborative by nature, always seeking ways to help her team members, and new ways to engage her clients. She leverages her experience with graphics, animation, interactive prototyping, and analysis to establish a visual language that identifies and defines project scope, highlights application features, and encompasses a whole-system design ethic. She quickly builds trust with clients and works to distill their needs and wants into actionable features and intuitive designs and applications, leading to better products and happy clients.

Lead Designer at Integral GIS 11/2017 - current 
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ERCOT | ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF TEXAS
Elizabeth designed the application interface, tools, and workflows for GridGeo, an application that provides situational awareness for the operators of the Texas Electric Transmission system.

• She served as a liaison between the Business Owner and a team of 7 developers to communicate the desired approach and necessary features.
  
• She designed an extensive icon library that allowed for the visualization of several complicated features.  These included substation types, system violations and outages, and weather variables.
  
• Her designs and functional narratives provided a detailed reference to all teams to ensure consistency and an agreed-upon approach.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS
Elizabeth played an integral role in the creation of Framework, an enterprise solution for the PNWRCC that supports all branches of the organization from Field Reporting, Administration, Contract Management, and Market Recovery.  She worked directly with PNWRCC members to gather requirements, document user workflows, and understand the intricacies of the various departments.  She produced wireframes that were used as an architecture to inform the development and database design and then worked with her design team to refine and define the aesthetics of the application.  Together they created a robust mapping application backed by a powerful customized data repository that streamlines various user workflows into an integrated and intuitive system.
STARBUCKS

Elizabeth managed the design and deliverables for Atlas Next, a location intelligence and analytics platform for Starbucks.  Her team worked with the product owners and business managers to design a comprehensive geospatial application that enhanced the experience of site analysis for existing and potential locations.  Features included site scorecards, portfolio reviews, and tools for reporting and analytics.  Deliverables included a detailed style guide that documented the application styles and the anatomy of components, high-fidelity interactive prototypes, pixel-perfect design files, and documentation of error/feedback patterns.

​EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Visual Communication, Evergreen State College, 1999-2002

Interdisciplinary Art Studies, University of Washington 1998-99

Graphic Design, HTML/CSS, & Illustration, School of Visual Concepts, 2015

Skills

UI/UX Design, Project Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Use Case Development, Visual Communication, Collaboration.