Supporting the Hawkins design system team.

My work involved leading numerous initiatives for Okta’s Odyssey Design System, focusing on

component design, strategic planning, and cross-functional enablement. Throughout my time at Okta, Odyssey's adoption grew from 0-80+ teams across the company's core platform.

Project highlights:

• Built a Figma plugin that automated the migration of 500+ legacy

components and styles to Odyssey, resulting in adoption by five internal teams within

three months.

• Helped define and scale intake, contribution, and governance frameworks that aligned

Odyssey with platform teams and enabled them to ship consistent, system-compliant

designs faster.

• Designed and developed four new components end to end in 2024

• Launched a quarterly design system newsletter reaching 1,000+

employees and executives, increasing system visibility and accelerating adoption.

• Developed AI-powered automations for system intake and documentation updates,

reducing manual touch points by approximately 50%.

At Gem, I partnered with cross-functional engineering and product partners on the company’s Analytics products.

Led the revitalization of Gusto's design system, rebranding it as Workbench and

driving strategy for both the public documentation website and Figma library.

• Rebuilt the product design Figma kit, achieving 100% adoption across design in 4

months.

• Introduced new components and comprehensive documentation for 50

components, including usage guidelines and accessibility standards.

• Established governance models, contribution frameworks, and design spec docs

• Documented Gusto's design language and token system, creating

supporting Figma plugins and templates for implementation.

• Developed intake processes and automations for system requests and updates.

• Created a real-time dashboard to track adoption metrics and report system health to

EPD leadership.

• Implemented cross-functional working groups and team rituals to boost collaboration

and system adoption.