With 12 years of experience creating user-centric innovative and compelling graphic design for the Web, Identity, and Print and in-depth studies of psychology, I am currently looking to refine the focus of my career more toward the User Experience Design area. My background in art/design and advertising, coupled with my studies in psychology and experience in front-end development and programming, provides me with a solid understanding of user behavior and motivation and enables me to deftly translate the client’s objectives, marketing or otherwise, into successful creative strategies and technical products. I further have the skills to communicate these concepts to developers and programmers through verbal and written communication as well as wire-frames, prototypes, and site-maps. It is my intention to further my academic endeavor, eventually to the level of PhD and beyond, in pursuit of the most complete understanding of the relationship between users and the applicatio