Product designer with 8+ years building and scaling enterprise and consumer-facing digital products across fintech, AI recruiting, and healthcare. Expert in design systems, cross-functional collaboration, and data-informed UX that improves adoption and efficiency.
Experience
2022 — 2024
2022 — 2024
San Francisco, California, United States
• Led end-to-end design of the Bakkt Custody web application in close partnership with product and engineering, delivering a scalable, intuitive UI for institutional asset management.
• Built and maintained a reusable MUI-based design system and style guide, reducing design-to-development friction and accelerating feature delivery.
• Established and operationalized a design QA process with engineering, improving visual consistency and cutting post-release design defects.
• Partnered with product to design technical support documentation and help center experiences, increasing self-service resolution and reducing support tickets.
• Collaborated with marketing to produce integrated physical and digital campaign assets (conference collateral, paid social media templates, illustrations), ensuring brand/design alignment.
• Migrated legacy interfaces into the new design system, modernizing the product ecosystem while preserving user familiarity.
• Designed and iterated on new features for the Bakkt Loyalty program, aligning product design with business goals to drive engagement.
• Led the redesign of the public Bakkt website to improve clarity, conversion, and consistency with the updated design system.
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
Remote
• Owned end-to-end product design for both the web app and Chrome extension, guiding the full UX lifecycle from user research and prototyping to final production.
• Established and enforced a reusable design system and UI guidelines, ensuring visual and interaction consistency across surfaces and speeding up design implementation.
• Designed and ran A/B tests and usability evaluations to uncover pain points and validate UI improvements, feeding insights back into rapid iterations.
• Partnered directly with the CEO to define, prioritize, and evolve product requirements, aligning the roadmap with fairness and business objectives.
• Built the brand from the ground up, crafting its visual identity, tone, and positioning to reflect the mission of better and fairer hiring.
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
San Carlos, California
• Developed and maintained comprehensive UX guidelines to ensure consistency and accessibility across patient and provider web portals.
• Planned and conducted user research (interviews, usability tests, surveys) to surface usability pain points and inform design priorities.
• Built interactive prototypes to iterate solutions rapidly and validate assumptions with stakeholders.
• Designed and executed A/B tests to optimize key user flows, driving measurable improvements in task completion and reducing friction.
2016 — 2019
2016 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and maintained 8+ web and mobile applications, ensuring a cohesive and scalable user experience across the HR product suite.
• Created and scaled a responsive, organization-wide design system for web and mobile that was adopted across teams, reducing UI inconsistency and accelerating delivery.
• Developed modular, responsive component templates using modern CSS and JavaScript libraries to shorten development cycles and simplify maintenance.
• Led user research and stakeholder workshops to surface pain points and align product decisions with business goals.
• Championed a design-oriented software development approach for web and mobile, improving collaboration between design and engineering and elevating product quality.
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
• Maintained existing design system.
• Reviewed user-research data.
• Support with partner features.
Education
De Anza College
2016 — Present