“Jason is an established Design Sprint Facilitator in my experience. He was my associate during Global Virtual Design Sprint and it was a delight working with Jason. He was very considerate while he mentored me being a co-facilitator. Moreover, he always went the extra mile to shepherd the remote teams, as well as worked extra hard to bring consensus with a highly energetic team. Our GVDS team was successful, mainly due to the professional way Jason facilitated the process. I am looking forward to joining Jason for the next GVDS. ”
About
An accomplished UX leader with over 20 years of experience growing user experience teams…
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What are some effective ways to gain leadership experience outside of work?
Become a youth sports coach. By doing so, you are having a positive impact on your community, but you are also mentoring young athletes. This allows you to flex your leadership muscle by properly planning and working with people to hold them accountable while helping them achieve their individual goals. As a football coach for over 15+ years, I've found these skills to be directly transferable to leading teams in the corporate world. The best part is working with a young athlete and watching them develop their skills over the course of the season while their self-confidence flourishes! It's a great feeling following my players at the next level knowing that you played a small role in their development.
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We must live our lives with a sense of urgency, in how we love, give to and serve others. Our time here on earth is limited!
We must live our lives with a sense of urgency, in how we love, give to and serve others. Our time here on earth is limited!
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Illinois Wesleyan University
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Activities and Societies: Varsity Football, Rescue Scuba Diving/Cave Diver, Kappa Pi Art Fraternity, Photography
• Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Graphic Design and Photography.
• IWU Titan Football student athlete.
• Member of the Kappa Pi Art Fraternity.
• Graphic Designer for the Argus school newspaper.
• Certified PADI Master SCUBA Diver, Assistant Instructor, and Rescue Diver.
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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volunteer
Mended Little Hearts of Chicago
- 6 years 9 months
Health
Since 2004, Mended Little Hearts has provided heart families and caregivers of children with heart defects an outlet through which they can find answers, education, resources and access to local-based peer-to-peer support – building hope for the future. With Mended Little Hearts, children with congenital heart defects (CHD) and their families find strength and understanding from those who share the same experience. We let them know they are NOT alone.
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Support Volunteer
Pediatric Congenital Heart Association
- Present 6 years 10 months
Health
PCHA serves to raise funds for families affected by congenital heart disease. CHD's affect 1 out of 110 births making it the leading cause of birth defects in children born globally. PCHA is a leader in research and support and offers a yearly fundraising walk and monthly meetings at area hospitals for families.
Patents
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System and method for facilitating the purchase of products determined to be useful in the performance of a task
Issued US US20120150681 A1
A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented…
A retailer computer system facilitates the purchase of products that are determined to be useful in the performance of a task by presenting to a consumer a first user interface by which the consumer may select a task from a repository of tasks, each task stored in the repository of tasks having documented instructions, such as a recipe, for performing the task, by presenting in a web page the documented instructions of the selected task, by using one or more keywords within the documented instructions of the selected task to select at least one product from an electronic product catalog, the selected at least one product being one or more of a part, such as a recipe ingredient, and a tool, such as an appliance, usable in performing the task, and by presenting to the consumer a second user interface for allowing the consumer to purchase via use of an online retail channel the selected at least one product.
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Grainger.com website redesign
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See project*Challenge*
Grainger recently launched grainger.com on Hybris, retiring it's outdated BroadVision solution. During the transition, collection of user feedback began to consistently surface several growth opportunties. Most feedback centered around significant gaps in design and performance.
*Solution*
Further investigation identified key areas of focus. Utilizing strong collaboration, the visual design team paired closely with web development to create a new, scalable style guide…*Challenge*
Grainger recently launched grainger.com on Hybris, retiring it's outdated BroadVision solution. During the transition, collection of user feedback began to consistently surface several growth opportunties. Most feedback centered around significant gaps in design and performance.
*Solution*
Further investigation identified key areas of focus. Utilizing strong collaboration, the visual design team paired closely with web development to create a new, scalable style guide that systematically addressed gaps provided by resarch. The following global improvements were made using rapid iteration within 2 week sprints:
• Font size and readability
• Removal of Dojo library and replacing with jQuery
• Consistent color palette
• Establishing of a patterns and standards library
• New utilitarian approach to header/footer
• Improved navigation and navigation visibility
• Improved search
•Results•
An incremental lift in site conversion by 4.7% and an overall drop in page load time by +.5 sec. Additionally, the refactoring process resulted in sub-1 second perceived page loads.
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Toastmasters
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