Experience
2022 — Now
Monterey, California, United States
Lead the design overhaul of UCAT, a multi-application platform utilized by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) for curriculum development and teaching foreign languages to personnel of the United States Armed Forces.
Crafted a modernized design language for the platform to reconcile a variety of applications with a diverse user base using Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud products.
Composed documentation for design systems and proposals, codebases, and tutorials for onboarding new users to the redesigned platform.
Created new products such as administrative panel and a revamped reporting system, primarily using AGGrid.
Implemented deliverables with core web technologies—e.g. HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/JS libraries like ChartJS, jQuery, GSAP, AGGrid etc.
Collaborated heavily with back end developers and government stakeholders.
Sacramento, California Area
Collaborated with SeeClickFix to develop two apps for the department’s Division of Boating and Waterways—a public-facing app for reporting invasive aquatic weed species, and an internal app for managing inventory—with a broader goal of creating an in-house operation for all future apps the division may need.
Primarily using React Native, with mockups and prototyping done using Figma and HTML/CSS/JavaScript respectively.
Duties expanded to managing our division’s website and addressed optimization issues, upgraded user experience, and ensured web pages and documents conformed to the division’s accessibility standards.
Sacramento, California Area
Recruited by co-founder Damian Patterson to design templates for the company’s social media handles—e.g. Instagram, LinkedIn.
Designed a variety of templates that conformed to TalentWeb’s brand identity, providing them with in-house assets to obviate the need for generic templates.
2017 — 2018
San Jose, CA
Helped with the design and development of the company’s website by first building a strong visual language—namely, constructing a strict color palette, information architecture, and typographical configuration.
Built prototypes using this visual language, and deployed using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.
Developed an SCSS library of custom UI components, thereby providing other developers and designers with reusable components which they could experiment with and modify for their specific needs.
2017 — 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
Tasked with researching comparable and competitive products. By analyzing their strengths and weaknesses across a variety of parameters (e.g. UX, onboarding, visual language, user base), providing the company with a more accurate measure of where their app was positioned relative to other products.
Used data acquired from research to devise onboarding strategies for converting new users, as well as recommendations for features which would help the app stand out from its competitors
Education
University of California, Davis
Bachelor's degree
James Madison High School