UX Lead with a background in psychology, designing complex, data-driven products people rely on to make decisions. I balance empathy with structure, turning how people think into clear, intuitive systems.
Experience
2025 — Present
2025 — Present
Chicago, IL
• Own UX strategy across high visibility, bankwide initiatives, partnering closely with CFOs and senior leaders to shape product direction and decision making.
• Lead the design of unified executive dashboards that replace fragmented reporting and give leadership a clear, consistent view of performance across the organization.
• Build and scale a shared design system, data visualization language, and accessibility standards used across multiple internal products.
• Act as a trusted design partner to executives, product, and engineering by translating complex business problems into clear, actionable experiences and repeatable UX practices.
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Directed the design strategy for cross-functional teams, ensuring a unified vision and efficient execution that drove product adoption and market differentiation.
• Led the design and product roadmap, collaborating with business stakeholders, product management, and engineering to ensure user-centered solutions that align with overall product vision and business objectives.
• Built and scaled a design system, ensuring consistency and reducing time-to-market by enabling streamlined workflows across teams.
• Drove user engagement by 30% through scalable design solutions, aligning design strategy with business goals across web and mobile platforms.
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
Chicago, IL
• Drove user engagement by 40% through scalable design solutions for web and mobile platforms.
• Led the design and product roadmap, collaborating closely with engineering to ensure seamless execution and alignment with business objectives.
• Built and scaled a design system, improving cross-team collaboration and reducing design debt.
• Aligned product vision with business objectives, delivering impactful user experiences that boosted product adoption.
• Led accessibility-first initiatives, achieving WCAG compliance and enhancing usability for diverse audiences.
• Led user research and usability testing, refining designs and enhancing product usability and performance.
2021 — 2024
2021 — 2024
• Led a Design team, fostering creativity and collaboration, while executing user-centric strategies.
• Revamped the Web platform, directly contributing to an increase in customer retention and growth in revenue
• Designed a mobile app that expanded the company’s market share, driving user engagement and business scalability.
• Acted as a Product Owner for key projects, managing roadmaps, user stories, and iterative development.
• Leveraged strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams to align design solutions with business requirements and user needs.
• Applied user research and usability testing expertise, resulting in data-driven, user-friendly product designs
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Led a diverse creative team driving innovation and effective collaboration.
• Increased conversion rate by 25% through strategic UX design enhancements.
• Exceeded business goals with the design of clean and intuitive user interfaces.
• Client praise for the extensive research and use of empathy tools for potential users to achieve a more mindful and user-friendly design
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Certificate
Stony Brook University