Career Experience
March 2023 - Current
December 2022 - February 2023
March 2020 - October 2022
June 2008 - March 2020
October 2006 - June 2008
Life/Career Coaching
Taking some time to explore other career paths and am currently working on obtaining Life/Career Coach Certifications. I feel it adds a level of communication and understanding to my existing UX/Product credentials, while helping others.
Crown Castle
Senior Product Designer
Assessed current UX Maturity level by surveying internal and external stakeholders and teams.
Identified blockages and pain points, creating plans to alleviate meeting fatigue.
Successfully eliminated unnecessary meetings and increased meeting productivity using Figjam for better communication efforts.
Obtained Agile Certifications.
Helped engage cross functional teams to envision an Agile based methodology to create better structure with project kick offs.
KCF Technologies
UX Lead Product Visionary Ui/Ux Designer
Championed and advocated for a stronger UX presence and helped to guide UX integration into internal Agile practices.
Collaborated with CTO, VP of Product and Engineering Stakeholders to articulate a Product Road Map.
Conducted User Research via user interviews, shadowing, surveys and brainstorming workshops.
Bridged gaps in taxonomy via an Atomic Approach based Design Management System; first implemented via InVision DSM and then migrated to Figma
Transformed complex and raw vibration data outputs into actionable data visualizations.
Worked cross functionally with engineers, project owners, stake holders and higher ups to coordinate efforts and implement features.
Served as UX Lead guiding and enabling my team to own their projects and work collaboratively.
Created learning plans and workshops to transition to Figma and Figjam for the UX team and engineers.
Used FlowMap, Optimal Workshop and Figjam to articulate user flows, site architecture, user personas, feature mapping, conduct user research and demonstrate insights.
Created wireframes, lo and hi-fidelity prototypes and functional prototypes to drive vision.
Conducted hand-off meetings with engineers, attended Scrum meetings and performed testing.
Successfully deployed Machine Learning and AI based features to gain continuous feedback loops within enterprise software.
Schoolwires / Blackboard Inc
Marketing Web Designer Front End Developer Ui/Ux Designer
Continuously managed multiple client facing projects from Kick off through Deployment, utilizing SalesForce.
Learned how to develop for front end web using HTML, CSS, Flash and some Javascript.
Aligned business values and how to leverage emerging technologies to create unique offerings to our client base; Schoolwires was the first in K-12 CMS to offer responsive/adaptive.
Worked with Product to offer Mobile Applications in tangent with responsive.
Formed relationships with over 100 different school districts and their stakeholders to bring forth web presences that met both internal and external needs and goals.
Collaborated cross functionally to create web application, widgets and tools that our client base needed to be successful.
Created branding and marketing materials for both internal and external clients.
Continuously sought methods of improving internal and external communications and ways to improve design processes. Implemented and championed InVision.
Created over 200 unique web presences for large and small school districts; including San Diego Unified, Fairfax, Houston ISD and Dallas ISD.
Link Computer Corporation
Marketing Web Designer Front End Developer
Internal company graphic designer, responsible for all marketing pieces both digital and print.
Lead Designer for the Web Communications Department.
Attended sales calls and meeting to onboard clients.
Worked on a variety of web interfaces, both internal and external across a multitude of varying businesses. This includes, OshKosh intranet, Hite Company ecommerce site, Seamens touch screen interface and Rich Coast Coffee ecommerce and web presence.
Presented at LinkUp and Learn and created banners and marketing materials as well as developed an online sign up form for vendors and participants.
Collaborated on Link’s CMS prototype, generated research, wireframes and graphics.