Experience
TigerConnect2023 — today
Lead Product Designer
- Crafts, refines, implements, and communicates design vision and strategy across the organization and champions user-centered design principles and methodologies.
- Designs intuitive and elegant experiences that project simplicity within a complex system keeping user needs and functional requirements at the fore. Champions consistency, usability, and accessibility across products and platforms.
- Partners with product leadership to visualize the future of TigerConnect products, and collaborates with product managers, engineers, and other cross-functional teams to streamline the discovery to delivery process.
Bigleaf Networks2022 — 2023
Senior UX Designer
- Drove user experience evolution of Bigleaf’s Cloud-first SD-WAN services.
- Designed storyboards and wireframes to accurately convey user experience details to product managers and engineers.
- Oversaw creation, development, and implementation of Bigleaf design system with tools including Sketch, Zeplin, and Storybook.
NuORDER2020 — 2022
Design System Lead
- Drove evolution of design system by defining complex patterns, building modular components, creating documentation, continued iteration, and distribution with tools including Sketch, Zeplin, Abstract, and Storybook.
- Partnered with UX team to iterate and translate design proposals into fully realized and rendered deliverables.
- Worked with other designers to evangelize and enforce new interface guidelines and design patterns.
- Collaborated with front-end development teams to ensure feasibility and fidelity of ideas.
Enservio2018 — 2019
User Experience Designer
- Designed and developed component-based responsive design system library in html and scss.
- Improved review process to reduce review time and redundant errors with highfidelity mock-ups and prototypes.
- Active participant in planning meetings to define detailed user and business requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
Panera Bread2007 — 2017
Creative Services and User Experience
- Transformed strategy, research, UX and UI design, technology platforms, content development, and Google Analytics for panerabread.com.
- Designed coded prototypes to test the site’s user experience responsive and e-commerce designs in browsers to enable early problem-solving and create a more efficient transition from design to development.
- Built and promoted an asset management system to improve local marketing through application of national brand standards generating a 375% increase in approved, brand-sanctioned marketing collateral.
L.L. Bean2004 — 2007
Creative Services
- Directed creative development and production of materials in support of L.L. Bean’s catalog, retail and e-commerce business, as well as support resources for all layout and photography deliverables.
- Developed processes and procedures to standardize image production and optimization.