Talks & Awards

I speak at local design events in the DC area and have organized the World IA Day DC and UXDC conferences.

Talks

2019

January 12: “Making the Transition to UX Leadership,” moderated discussion at UXCamp DC, Washington, DC

2018

September 20: “What is Information Architecture And Why Does It Still Matter?,” presented at the UXDC Meetup, Washington, DC: Slides | Video (21:50)

February 24: “Good IA Every Day,” presented at World IA Day DC, Arlington, VA

2017

August 17: “A Definition of Populism,” presented at Design Against Populism, a UXPA DC and OpenIDEO DC Design Thinking Workshop, Arlington, VA

2015

June 24: “The Role of Content Strategy in UX,” UXPA and Content Strategy DC Panel Discussion, Arlington, VA

2014

October 14: “A Usability Test is not a Focus Group,” Design for Action Conference, Arlington, VA

October 10: “What Inspires Me (Pecha Kucha),” Sapient, Arlington, VA. All photos taken by me.

2012

October 19: “Intelligent Content: A Case Study,” User Focus Conference, Washington, DC

April 24: “Intelligent Content: A Case Study,” IXDA DC Lightning Talks

2011

September 16: “#UXFAIL: Projects that Have Gone Wrong! Oh! So! Wrong!,” User Focus Conference, Washington, DC

2006

October 13: “Integrating User Experience into the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for Software Development,” User Focus Conference, Washington, DC

Publications

2013

July 23: “Setting the Record Straight on UX Work as a Federal Contractor,” SapientNitro Blog

2005

July 11: Sometimes I enter the New Yorker cartoon caption contest. Here is my winning caption.

Awards

2022

• Publicis Sapient DC Icon Team Award: Executing an Impossible Task

2020

• Publicis Sapient Core Value Award: Engaging with Openness

2018

• Publicis Sapient Team Award for Client-Focused Delivery, TUXD Project at USCIS

2017

• HacktheBanDC, UX Lead on Knowledge is Power Team (Third Place)

2012

• “The 10 Best Federal Mobile Apps” (Government Computer News, for the National Cancer Institute Mobile Website)

• National Cancer Institute Good Team Leader Award for leadership, management, and coordination of the mobile Cancer.gov development and launch

• National Cancer Institute Good Team Work Award for successful and timely development and launch of the Cancer.gov mobile platform

2011

• National Institutes of Health Award of Merit for NCI Shady Grove New Campus website

• National Cancer Institute Good Team Work Award for TCGA Website Redesign

2010

• National Cancer Institute Good Team Member Award (NCI Shady Grove New Campus website launch)

2008

• Lockheed Martin SRA Excellence Award

• National Cancer Institute Letter of Appreciation for website redesign (Office of Management Analysis and Assessment)

• National Cancer Institute Certificate of Appreciation for Clinical Trials Search Redesign and Center for Cancer Training site design

2007

• National Cancer Institute Certificate of Appreciation for four website redesigns