Experience has taught me to see the big picture and embrace the small details.

Experience

Consultant, NYC
2014-Present

UX Designer, Content Strategist, and Project Manager. Projects include websites, intranets, marketing videos, CMS user guides, and exhibit designs. Clients include J.P. Morgan, Humanities New York, Moey Inc., PepsiCo, Lumentus, and Vested. 

Fidelity Investments, NJ
2015-2016

Contract Information Architect position. Improved content pathing and user engagement for MyMoney.com, a website that amalgamates financial content for millennials. Used an agile process, created user journeys and clickable prototypes for user testing—then gleaned insights from research and refined designs.

Fusebox, Inc., NYC
1999-2014

Breadth of experience at award-winning independent digital agency—including UX Design, Copywriting, Graphic Design, and Project Management. Projects included websites, demos, banners, apps, and videos. Clients included J.P.Morgan, Discover Bank, GE Capital Bank, USAA, CNN, Time Warner Cable, ESPN, Spike TV, and The Bowery Mission.

Awards

Official Honoree, 18th Annual Webby Awards
Financial Services/Banking, GECapitalBank.com

Standard of Excellence Award, Web Marketing Association
Bank Standard of Excellence Award, Discoverbank.com

Best Non-profit Rich Media Ad, Web Marketing Association
The Bowery Mission

Exhibitions

Artists Space: Squatville (L.E.FT Architects)  
Parsons School of Design: The Floor Show (Homestyle Magazine) 

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Architecture
Barnard College, Columbia University

Design + Environmental Analysis  
Cornell University

UX Design with Irene Pereyra
General Assembly

Improv 101, 201, 301, Musical Improv 101 and Sketch Writing 101, 201  
Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB)

Fiction and Feature Writing Courses  
Sarah Lawrence, NYU, The New School, and Sackett Street Writers

Design and Advertising Courses  
Parsons, Cooper Union, and the School of Visual Arts

Skills

Tools: Adobe CS, Microsoft Office, Figma, InVision, Slack, Keynote
Tasks/Deliverables: User Research, Competitive Analyses, Content Audits, Copy Decks, SEO Keywords, Personas, Site Maps, User Flows, Storyboards, Wireframes, Prototypes
Familiarity with: HTML, CSS, Google Analytics, CRM, French language

Acting: Television Credit—The Americans (Sn.5 Ep.3) Extra, Bowling scene FX Networks

Volunteering Activities

Free Arts NYC: Taught arts and crafts to children living in a shelter
Brooklyn Friends School: Class Parent, Diversity Committee member
Elisabeth Irwin High School:
Class Parent, Anti-racist Community member, Learning Differences Affinity Group member

Contact

jen@jenmurray.com

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