Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.
— Jack Handy

Creative Lead | Systems Thinker | Powered by Purpose and Probably Anxiety

Hello!
Thanks for clicking all the way to the end. You’ve found your way to the important stuff… like:
Who is
Em?
Why do they have 11 cats?
And what are their 11 lil names?
Can I have one of them cats?
Is 11 cats too many cats to have?

Anyway!

Em in professional life:
I am a self-taught “coder” with just enough CSS/HTML chops to get from a-to-z in a CMS that thrives on being barely usable. My brain is user experience obsessed and psychotically pixel perfect (but not like, could-be-a-Netflix-documentary kind of obsessed/psychotic). I live in grids, templates, and components. I eat low-hanging fruit for breakfast, deep-dive for fun, and move the needle in my sleep.
Shareholder value? I maximize it.
Bandwidth? I have it.
Circle back? Giddyup partner.
Cats? You guessed, I herd them.

Em in personal life:
I live in Shelton Washington with my wife and a boatload of cats. When I’m not herding cats at work, I am very literally, herding them at home. I lived in Seattle for over 20 years so I have some pretty good brags about concerts I’ve seen. I happily gave up that lifestyle to come and live out in the sticks and mow the lawn on the weekend.

Em living their life in general:
Best

Skills:
Graphic Design
Branding
Typography
Wireframing
UX
UI
User Acceptance Testing
Email Marketing
Team Management
Project Management
Go-to-Market Strategy
Styleguide Creation

Tools:
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Adobe Experience Manager
Adobe Dynamic Media Classic
Bloomreach Experience Manager
Figma
HTML/CSS
JIRA/Confluence
Wrike