Skills and experience

Skills

Product + User Experience Design

Design Systems + Interface Design

Discovery Research + User Testing & Synthesis

Visual + Graphic Design

Mediums

Desktop + Mobile Sites & Apps

iOS + Android Apps

Squarespace + Webflow Sites

Industries

Financial Services + Asset Management

Healthcare, Wellness + Personal Care

Social Impact, Nonprofit + Philanthropy

B2B2C, B2B, B2C + E-commerce

Daily tools

Figma

Miro

Airtable + Notion

Jira + Shortcut

Education

Bachelor in Fine Arts: Communication Design (Graphic Design Concentration)

University of North Texas • College of Visual Arts & Design

3.6 Graduating GPA / Cum Laude Graduation Honors

  • Deans List (4 years)

  • Communication Design Top Portfolio Nominee (3 years)

Experience

Senior Product Designer

Contractor/Freelancer • Apr 2021 - Present

I aid my clients and their teams throughout various stages of their business initiatives, and offer support across the entire product design and research process. Industries include: Kids Education, Heath-care/tech, Social Impact and B2B/B2C.

Senior Product Designer

Papa • Healthcare • Apr - Sept 2024 (Contract)

Papa is a service that helps people on Medicare and Medicaid get access to companionship, assistance and transportation. While contracting at Papa, I was a part of the team establishing the self-service scheduling experience for their members via Papa’s new web-app (prior this service was over the phone). I also led creating a centralized home and password-less login experience for the new scheduling and related tools.

Senior Product Designer

Prime Matter • Beauty & Personal Care • Nov 2021 - Feb 2024 (Contract)

While contracting at PML, a personal-care manufacturing company, I designed tools for both their internal employees and current/prospective clients. Internal products often involved streamlining and improving upon processes that existed offline, while client products aided users through project onboarding and product development tracking. I led and moderated all user research and testing efforts, and established design systems for both the internal and client products.

Senior Visual & UX Designer

Redesign Health / Keen Health • Healthcare • Jul 2021 - Jan 2022 (Full-time)

I initially collaborated closely with the internal design and research team at Redesign Health to launch the MVP of Keen Health, a newly incubated digital product connecting individuals with unique needs to Medicare advisors. After the MVP launch, I transitioned to an in-house contract role at Keen as their solo product designer, working directly with the CEO and CoS on iterating Keen’s product offerings as the company adapted its ethos and strategy with the evolving Medicare landscape.

Founding Senior Product Designer

Fern Health / BCG Digital Ventures • Healthcare • Oct 2019 - Apr 2021 (Full-time)

I joined Fern Health's founding product team during the seed stage and helped build their pain management app from the ground up through the Alpha, Beta, and MVP phases. After the MVP launch, I led product design and strategic initiatives on the Digital Therapy team, which focused on the delivery of a member's care plan, while concurrently spearheading design system efforts and governance across the app. I partnered with our in-house clinical experts, product owners, engineering and executive stakeholders on features such as: login, enrollment, onboarding, health assessments, appointment scheduling, chat, exercise video player, educational content, notifications general care plan delivery and maintenance.

Senior Product Designer

Catchafire • Social Impact + Philanthropy • Oct 2018 - Oct 2019 (Full-time) / Apr 2021 - Sept 2023 (Contract)

I crafted experiences across all audiences of Catchafire’s platform, a marketplace that connects individuals and nonprofits on remote volunteering projects. This included enhancing volunteer profiles and project searching features, as well as developing tools for nonprofits to assess their needs and overall impact. Additionally, I led product initiatives for corporate social responsibility programs, assisted in a site-wide design system rebrand and introduced the MVP concept of “team volunteering.”

While at this job I transitioned from “UX Designer” to “Senior Product Designer” when I returned to work for them the second time.

Senior Visual & UX Designer

Pow Interactive / Morgan Stanley • Financial Services • Oct 2014 - Oct 2018 (Full-time)

At Pow Interactive, I was involved in the creation and oversight of designing interfaces and experiences for complex financial products for Morgan Stanley. This included a suite of internal products that financial advisors used to assist in client wealth management and self-service robo-advising tools for clients.

During this experience, Morgan Stanley relocated me to New York City to work on-site with their stakeholders, design and tech teams. I transitioned into a Senior role at this job, originally joining Pow right out of college.

UX Research & Design Intern

Tekzenit • January-August 2014

In this multidisciplinary position, I was exposed to and practiced a comprehensive range of design research methodologies, helped create/moderate user testing, and developed wireframes and UI elements for a redesign of AT&T's official website. 

Freelance Illustrator

Rosetta Stone • December 2013-April 2014

In this role, I created minimalistic digital illustrations to help communicate objects and actions that could communicate across languages.

Interaction Design Student Teaching Assistant

University of North Texas • August - December 2013

While a senior at UNT, I assisted instructing communication design juniors in their interaction design class. Position included providing students with feedback and guidance on their mobile apps and assisting the instructor in the class structure.

Web & Interactive Design Intern

D Magazine • May-August 2013

As an intern, I conceptualized and executed illustrations for different digital environments and created web banner ads for D Magazine’s clients.

More tools I use…

Design

Figma

Zeplin

Sketch

Zeroheight

All the Adobe goods ☻

Prototyping

Figma

Principle

InVision

Axure

Overflow

Research + Testing

Lookback

Validatley

User Interviews

Grain

Usability Hub

Management + Collaboration

Jira

Clubhouse

Miro

Airtable

Notion