Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Demonstrate expertise in applying user-centered design principles, resulting in the creation of intuitive and user-friendly software interfaces that elevate overall user experiences.
Produce compelling Figma prototypes, collaborating closely with clients to visualize product flows and future directions.
Pioneered the development of design principles, style guides, branding guidelines, and component libraries, unifying AutoGrid's visual communication strategies.
A principal creator in the establishment of the Customer Advisory Board, a dynamic forum for user feedback. Quarterly meetings with customers have fostered a culture of feedback at AutoGrid, driving 1:1 discussions to uncover customer goals.
Crafted visually immersive persona and user journey documents that align internal teams with specific customer profiles and their scenario-based requirements.
Demonstrated an unwavering commitment to proactive collaboration across cross-functional teams, including product management, development, marketing, and delivery, ensuring the seamless integration of visually striking design solutions.
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
Greater Seattle Area
Visual design lead on the data analytics team that ensured the Apptentive Web platform stayed engaging for the Product Manager persona type.
Responsible for platform UX research on customer experience, via customer interviews and FullStory observations, that were used to target customer needs.
Focused on building Figma interactive prototypes and worked directly with users to gain feedback on them that influences company roadmaps and OKRs.
Created animation proposals in Figma to enhance the visual design interaction of specific customer personas.
Helped author a new design system from the ground up using Figma components. This on-going work involved constant communication with the engineering team and business stakeholders.
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
Seattle
2019 — 2019
2019 — 2019
Greater Seattle Area
Part of an international team of designers with the ambitious goal of solidifying UX direction for Oracle's complex app-building developer software suite. By working closely with engineers, I helped deliver a
vision that combined several Oracle products into a single fluid experience.
Worked closely with Oracle’s lead element designers and constructed innovative UI elements which not only implemented a responsive strategy for the tool but also incorporated Oracle's new Redwood design system.
Responsible for performing detailed design content compatibility checks on mobile app prototypes and then creating high-fidelity screens based on the findings. The direction improved information absorption and paved the way for a new mobile AR feature and tool library which I also assisted in creating.
2016 — 2019
2016 — 2019
Greater Seattle Area
Lead the UI/UX design efforts on Kymeta’s essential onboarding software that allowed users to manage fleets of antennas, organize their devices and clearly maintain complex account services. The tool was hailed by the executive team as a quintessential bridge for customers to integrate Kymeta’s new antenna technology.
Successfully gathered and maintained an essential user data base by conducting interviews, administering surveys and engaging in pair-programming sessions. These overall findings were developed into clear user-driven strategies that influenced many Cloud Service’s projects.
Based on user feedback, I developed several prominent informational dashboards which not only gave users vast insight into their antenna fleet at a glance but also served as a keen navigation shortcut to needed information.
Became the definitive UX champion of the Network Operations Center for feature development. I hosted group and individual touchpoint sessions to ensure the software experience remained influential and successful.
Created a compelling visual design language for all Cloud Services products that promoted consistency and mitigated confusion with third party software.
Constantly inspired departments with various forward-thinking interface designs. The results was several industry-first app ideas with the potential to create new forms of revenue streams for the company.
Education
University of Washington
BFA
Garfield High School