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I am a digital product designer with over 10 years of experience, specialized in user-centered design to create holistic digital and physical platform solutions that cohesively deliver on consumer experience, customer value, and business impact.

I do my best work on teams driven by curiosity and deep problem-solving, who apply (or adapt) best practices to create innovative and scalable design solutions built for lasting impact.

For the past 10+ years, I have been immensely fortunate to have worked across various design verticals and across multiple industries, with human-centered design always at the core of my practice.


roles & responsibilities

UXUI Design Manager (2021-present) | PepsiCo, Global Design Innovation

End-to-end digital product design processes; leading concept development and collaboration with business owners and cross-functional stakeholders, rapid prototyping for usability and user research, executing on ux/ui/ix designs and creating design systems, and leading design hand-off and guidance for software implementation and sustain efforts

UXUI Designer (2021) | Maiden Home, Ecomm

Site improvements, digital GTM assets for site and social

UI/UX Designer (2019-2021) | CHEF iQ, mobile app and hardware interface

Digital platform development, user research, ux/ui/ix design execution, and design system strategy, implementation, and management; cross-functional collaboration with business owners, internal design (brand, industrial), and engineering (software, firmware)

Product Designer (2014-2018) | littleBits

UX research and development, interaction design, physical and digital rapid prototyping, instructional design and copywriting, educational content development

education

Master of Product Development Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

tools

Figma, Sketch, Adobe xd/ai/in/ps, laser cutter, Jira, Asana, UserTesting.com, MS & G Suite

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