Résumé

 

Professional Profile

A strategic design leader with 15+ years of experience driving digital transformation and innovation. Proven track record of building high-performing teams, implementing design systems at scale, and leveraging emerging technologies including AI to solve complex business challenges. Demonstrated success in collaborating with executive stakeholders to align design initiatives with business objectives.

Core Competencies

User Experience • Leadership • Design Systems • Product Design • Digital Product Strategy • Mobile Prototyping • Web Prototyping • User Experience • Front-end Development • Creative Direction • Graphic Design • Branding • Usability • User Research • Marketing • Collaborative Leader • Quality Standards • Expert Communicator

Technical Proficiency

Adobe Creative Suite – Adobe Premiere, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Adobe After Effects, Others
Prototyping Tools – Figma, Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch, Principle, XD, UXpin, Others
Programming Languages – HTML, JavaScript, Angular, CSS3, HTML5
Animation – After Effects, Adobe Animate, Cinema 4D, Principle

Career Summary

PERFORCE (Formerly DELPHIX)
Staff Product Designer
Apr 2022 - Current

Delivered exceptional user experiences that drive product success and customer satisfaction.

  • Led the design of the next-generation Data Control Tower product that unified Delphix’s product offerings.

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate product vision into intuitive UI/UX, ensuring alignment with business goals.

  • Created a Figma-based design system to increase the productivity of the entire product design team.

Sammons Financial Group
UX Designer - Principle UX Engineer
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022

  • Designed, built, and managed an Angular-based design system that was integrated into applications through NPM packages.

  • Synthesized, prioritized, and communicated research findings to the project team and stakeholders.

  • Assisted production teams in executing modern user experiences by taking ownership, clarifying the vision, and establishing front-end architecture.

Igor Inc.
UX Engineer
Apr 2018- Nov 2018

Led UX and front-end development efforts for Igor’s web applications by researching new technologies, libraries, and implementation strategies for achieving product goals.

  • Designed, developed, and maintained Igor product web applications

  • Redesigned and rebuilt Igor’s primary IoT web application platform using modern front-end technologies including Angular 7, NgRx, HTML5, and CSS3.

  • Defined and created a scalable visual design language to unify Igor’s branding and software products.

F&I Admin
UX/UI Designer / Engineer
Jul 2017- Apr 2018

Worked closely with product and development teams to create multiple web applications. Was responsible for taking product ideas to development-ready prototypes. Increased user experience in F&I admin’s products by creating a scalable design system.

  • Designed and built a living design system that helped F&I Admin create a consistent product line by defining design and development examples and standards.

  • Facilitated communication across development and product teams creating a more efficient product development cycle.

  • Led overseas team to execute development on a new prominent feature in one of F&I Admin’s products.

Allstate (Contract)
User Experience Architect
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017

EGEN SOLUTIONS
Senior UX/UI Designer / User Experience (UX) Director
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017

Efficiently oversee and coordinate design production from concept through completion. Collaborate with clients to establish a vision, conceive designs, and complete deliverables within project deadlines and requirements. Build, motivate, mentor, and direct design/production teams; manage resources when strategizing client proposals. Enhance user experience while promoting brand awareness.

  • Translate high-level concepts into usable requirements by leading all development phases including validating ideas, researching concepts, writing user stories, building prototypes, creating style guides, ensuring design consistency, and using UX best practices.

  • Leader on several successful projects including creating an event app platform, field service app, enterprise-level application features, and learning platform.

  • Introduced design sprints, guaranteeing that new projects are quickly defined, prototyped, and validated.

DUPONT PIONEER (CONSULTING AT QCI)
UI / UX Front-End Developer / UX Lead
Jul 2014 - Sep 2015

Accomplished creating designs used by product owners to advance business objectives and increase customer satisfaction. Created wireframes and user-interface components for web application development. Used a wide range of graphic visualization tools when developing concepts, designs, and wireframes. Managed several teams always ensuring that high standards and use of best practices were met with a focus on high customer satisfaction. Minimized vendor dependency of UX.

  • Selected to submit a data visualization concept for a design patent.

  • Creating new wireframes, user-interface components, and designs to further refine critical, strategic, customer-facing web applications.

  • Led five scrum teams as UX specialist, adding UX debt stories, ensuring consistency concerns equalized with project priorities.

THE GREAT VOID MARKETING LAB
Owner
May 2007 - Sep 2015

Delivered high-level production design with careful attention to detail in several projects including new website development. Used best practices in creative phases using the latest formats, concepts, and typography. Key point of contact with clients, securing necessary information leading to projects delivered on time and within the established budget.

  • Created websites with the use of several graphic design programs and programming languages.

  • Updated already existing websites by adding new functionalities, and redesigning sites with a more effective end-user feel and usability.

AG LEADER TECHNOLOGY
Multimedia Specialist (Web Developer / Graphic Designer)
Dec 2011 - Jul 2014

Served as a web developer and graphic designer for large website refresh projects. Collaborated with all key stakeholders to design the central communications tool for the organization. Conceptualized a modern, user-friendly product, implementing innovative concepts. Used the latest Adobe Creative Suite software to create online and print graphics. Provided technical skills for editing professional promotional videos.

BIRDDOG JOBS
Web Developer / Designer
Apr 2011 - Nov 2011

Developed and maintained web pages for BirdDogJobs.com. Relied upon for expertise in solving technical and user issues. Corrected several issues outside the area of responsibility, ensuring the best website product for the company.  Efforts led to a large decrease in customer creation of career pages from two days to 8-10 minutes. Assisted with marketing initiatives through graphic design contributions for print advertising.

Education and Qualifications

UX Certification, Nielsen Norman Group Certified, UXC#1011517 (2015)

Associate of Applied Science, Computer Information Systems, Kaplan University (2007 – 2009)

Web Design Courses, Art Institute of Philadelphia (2008)

Graphic Design Courses, Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) (2006 – 2007)