About me

I am an experienced user interface designer who has worked in the energy industry for the last 15 years. I have a wide-ranging skill set that includes design tools (Illustrator, Sketch) and development languages (Javascript, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Xamarin/C#) and I have a solid basis in core front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design).

Responsive Design
95
HTML5
95
CSS3
90
User Interface Design
90
JavaScript (jQuery, Bootstrap)
70

Skills

User Experience

I believe User Experience (UX) must pervade the entire application development process, from conceptualization to wireframes, through coding and Quality Assurance (QA), all the way to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and rollout.

User Interface Design

I design visually clean, responsive interfaces using modern tools (Adobe Creative Suite and Sketch) and approaches.

Web Development

I build what I design. I am fluent in HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap on the front-end and work with software teams using Agile processes.

Mobile Applications

I understand native user-interface design languages and controls for Android and iOS and have experience designing and building for both.

Content Management

I have developed content for several Content Management Systems (CMS), including WordPress and SharePoint.

Internationalization

I design for multiple languages and audiences first. I18n cannot be an afterthought.

My colleagues

My work

I have been designing and coding internet sites and applications since 1998. These are samples of just some of the work I've done in the past few years.

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MyEnlighten Overview

MyEnlighten Overview

Home energy management dashboard

The MyEnlighten Overview gives users an interactive window into their home energy management by showcasing the relationship between solar production, energy use, and the home battery in almost real time.

My role was to design a high-affordance interface to give users a clear picture of the watt-hours used or produced in the home, and to display which direction energy was flowing in relation to the home. For example, a house with a solar installation might produce more electricity than is being consumed. A primary goal was that users understand that this excess energy may be used to charge the battery or be exported back to the power grid.

MyEnlighten

MyEnlighten

Solar production and monitoring

MyEnlighten debuted in 2012 as a friendlier, environmentally-conscious solar monitoring application than the original Enlighten app which was targeted at solar installers. Together with UX and Marketing, I designed over 25 iterations that underwent user-testing to reach a field-ready product.

Built with backbone.js and Bootstrap, MyEnlighten is responsive and highly modular. Since initial launch, I have designed several new modules and user-views to accommodate energy consumption monitoring, solar array views, and energy reporting.

Note: The website link below goes to a non-logged-in view of MyEnlighten absent many of the features of the full view.

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>Enlighten Systems API

Enlighten Systems API

API gateway website

400,000 solar arrays reporting every 5 minutes, sunup to sundown. In 2014, Enphase opened the Enlighten Systems API so developers could harness solar production data and build their own applications.

My role was to work with a API vendor on a gateway site to manage API accounts and billing, and also host API documentation. While the site is on a hosted platform, representing the Enphase brand and experience was an important goal.

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Enlighten Manager

Enlighten Manager

Professional solar monitoring

Designed for the solar professional, Enlighten Manager enables efficient management of multiple Enphase solar systems. I have been the principal User Interface Designer for Enlighten since 2011 and am responsible for web, mobile, and admin interfaces.

Solar installers use Enlighten Manager both on and off the rooftop, on handheld devices and in offices, to provision, build, and administer solar monitoring for customers worldwide. It is the #1 solar monitoring tool in America.

Envoy UI

Envoy UI

Embedded web application

The Envoy UI is a mobile web application that allows solar installers to connect to the Enphase Envoy communications gateway over a wireless AP network. This is typically done to configure the Envoy for reporting to Enphase and confirm a successful installation.

The app is embedded onto the Envoy gateway and accessed via mobile device. The app is responsive and lean, powered by Bootstrap and backbone.js.

JocoWeather

JocoWeather

Weather icon set

Jocoweather is a set of over 90 weather icons in SVG for use in Enphase's MyEnlighten web application. The set corresponds with the Weather Underground API.

Array Builder Prototype

Array Builder Prototype

Mobile wireframing

This was a series of wireframes for a mobile app solar installers could use to build a solar installation map. The client for these wireframes was the developement team at Enphase Energy. The gestures in the margins demostrate available actions users might expect when using the app.

ExxonMobil United Way website

ExxonMobil United Way

2009 campaign intranet site

Designed for the 2009 United Way campaign at ExxonMobil's Upstream Research Company, this Intranet site helped achieve a large fundraising goal. The design was used for all of ExxonMobil's Houston campuses for the 2010 campaign.

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Elearning

Elearning for geoscientists and engineers

From 2004-2010 I was the Learning and Development Systems Analyst for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, where I designed and coded over 50 post-doctoral courses on Geophysics and Engineering.

Each course was self-paced but usually involved classroom coursework at a later date. I also developed a SCORM-compliant pre-and-post course testing suite for course coordinators to use in evaluating student performance.

Digital Signage

ExxonMobil Digital Signage

Training Center Displays

From 2004-2010, I produced all of the digital signage at ExxonMobil's Upstream Technical Training Center. This included static and interactive displays throughout the building, designed to educate visitors and guide students to the correct classroom.

The displays were powered by Omnivex Server and Omnivex Display 3, which I also programmed, and included current weather, cable television feeds, daily class schedules, and Houston traffic information.

Upstream Technical Information

Upstream Technical Information

Intranet Presence

Upstream Technical Information, the research and library science arm of the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, requested my assistance in designing a new intranet site in 2008. The primary goals were to present a clean and appealing design and to place the most common online reasearch tools within easy reach of the user.

Upstream Technical Training

Upstream Technical Training

Intranet Presence

Upstream Technical Training, a department within the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, needed a new intranet presence in 2008 to go along with a new branding effort. The design process lasted some time, and I produced several concepts from which a final design was chosen. I am including the final product and three concepts.

Contact me

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