Neudesic, an IBM Company— Senior Product Designer
October 2021 - Present

Neudesic is a business and technology consultancy for enterprise clients making digital transitions. As a lead designer on the Ideation & Design Experience team, I direct the work of cross-functional product teams from Design Thinking through product delivery.

• Lead Designer and design systems manager for ‘Alchemy’ a company wide internal employee growth product.
• Defined framework and foundational documentation, of large Education Company design system.
• Led backlog management, UAT, and go live of large enterprise casino mobile app (Gamefinder, hotel bookings, offers, geofencing, etc.).
• Designed & shipped complex SSO flow & account migration for Casino sports betting app, included backlog for mobile app, kiosk, over-the-counter, & back office.
• Defined design system and token structure for internal insurance application.Discovered, designed, and shipped large energy utility revenue protection product, & data & analytics team center of excellence.
• Work with internal design system & accessibility groups. Facilitate weekly internal Figma upscaling group.
• Mentor associate level consultants.

Freelance — UX Designer
May 2020 - Present

• Design front-end mobile & desktop applications
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, user research, user personas, journey maps, wireframes, high fidelity prototypes, and final designs & assets.
• Provide logo design/branding support, graphic design, and video editing when needed.
• Design Interface according to existing branding.
• Communicate design to developers.

Planetary Care — UX Designer (Volunteer)
September 2020 - October 2021

• Lead design for PC web redesign & assist design of a platform for RegenAg practitioners
• Conduct user testing and analysis
• Ensure products adhere to WCAG 2.0 and color-blindness guidelines
• Design typography with logical easy to follow hierarchy.
• Ideate with other designers to find best possible solution

Koalesce Designs — UX Product Design Intern
October 2020 - February 2021

• Using agile scrum - conduct concept and usability testing and gather feedback.
• Create personas through user research and data.
• Define the right interaction model and evaluate its success.
• Design responsive and mobile (iOS & Android) wireframes
• Work with UI designers to implement attractive designs.
• Be able to communicate design ideas and prototypes to developers.
• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends.
  

Heartland Marimba — Director of Operations
December 2016 - Present

• Manage internal technical needs including, design and maintenance of two websites, organizational documents, assets, processes, and tech stack.
• Design and deliver content for both internal and external consumption including graphic design and photo editing for printed collateral for concert programs, album design, educational materials, social media, and web.
  

Teacher/Educator — Various
August 2009 - October 2021

• Design and deliver learning experiences for students using universal and goal-directed design principles, qualitative and quantitative research to inform curriculum design. This included K-12, Charter School, and Higher Education environments both as a contracted and staffed employee.