With more than 8 years of experience, I am a seasoned Product Designer who has collaborated with a variety of companies incoming Fortune 500 companies across a diverse set of industries, including retail, entertainment, finance, healthcare, travel, and non-profit sectors creating a variety of B2B and B2C digital...
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
Oakland, California, United States
• Worked with over 33 clients over the course of my career from several industries and built strong relationships with clients, effectively understanding their business goals and translating them into successful design solutions.
• Engage clients and co-workers through presentations, storytelling, demos, and workshops.
• Developed and executed strategic design plans, aligning design initiatives with overall product and business strategies.
• Manage project timelines and design resources, ensuring successful project delivery within scope and on schedule.
• Lead design teams on a project-to-project basis, providing guidance, mentorship, and feedback to ensure high-quality design outputs and professional growth of team members.
• Successfully created multiple large scale design system for clients that ensure consistency and scalability across products and platforms. Established and led a new large scale design system and governance model for a design system that is now being adopted by it’s parent company
• Established myself as a design system SME and evangelize the implementation of design system practices for efficient and cohesive design workflows within the company.
• Oversee the end-to-end product design process, from ideation to implementation, ensuring that user needs, business goals, and technical constraints were addressed throughout.
• Collaborated closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define product vision, requirements, and roadmaps, and to ensure seamless integration of design and development efforts.
• Oversee and manage employees as a lead designer and manager, providing guidance, mentorship, and feedback to foster professional growth and ensure high-performance outcomes.
2020 — Now
2020 — Now
Oakland, California, United States
• Collaborated with clients to conceptualize and bring mobile and web experiences to life, utilizing sketching, wireframing, high-fidelity designs, and prototyping.
• Worked closely with designers, copywriters, and developers to establish and execute scalable and innovative design systems, pushing the boundaries of clients' digital experiences.
• Led the implementation of large-scale design systems, enhancing design team productivity, ensuring product consistency, and facilitating smooth engineering hand-off.
• Conducted comprehensive research and analysis of market trends, user behaviors, and competitor offerings to drive product design strategies and foster innovation.
• Utilized user research, usability testing, and user feedback sessions to gather valuable insights and validate design decisions, iteratively improving designs based on user needs and feedback.
• Produced high-quality designs, documents, and specifications to facilitate development processes.
• Streamlined workflows to increase efficiency in the design process and enhance the governance of design systems.
• Engaged clients and colleagues through impactful presentations, storytelling, demos, and workshops to effectively communicate design concepts and drive collaboration.
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Oakland, California
• Work with clients to conceptualize and bring mobile and web experiences to life through sketching, wireframing, high-fidelity designs, and prototyping.
• Work collaboratively with designers, copywriters, and developers to establish and execute scalable and thoughtful design systems that stretch thinking and capabilities of clients' current digital experiences.
• Produce high-fidelity designs, documents, and specifications for development
• Improve workflows to increase efficiency in the design process
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
Oakland, CA
• Work with clients to conceptualize and bring mobile and web experiences to life through sketching, wireframing, high-fidelity designs, and prototyping.
• Work collaboratively with lead designers, copywriters, and developers to establish and execute scalable and thoughtful design systems that stretch thinking and capabilities of clients' current digital experiences.
• Produce high-fidelity designs, documents, and specifications for development
• Improve workflows to increase efficiency in the design process
2016 — 2017
2016 — 2017
Oakland, CA
• Work collaboratively with UX designers and leads to determine user experience design practices, establish visual design systems, and define interactions
• Produce high fidelity designs, prototypes, annotations, and style guides.
Education
Designlab
UX + UI Design
California State University-Sacramento
Bachelor of Science
University of San Francisco
Biology
City College of San Francisco