Web, app and software design for social, financial and security related efforts.

Senior Lead Design Architect focused on Figma design systems, risk averse working processes and rapid, high-fidelity prototyping.

Accountable for:

• Defining, teaching/mentoring and advocating for rapid, iterative prototyping as a delivery model for project teams across the organization.

• Interaction design leadership, specification, prototyping and strategy.

• Developing design ecosystems & governance models.

Direct outcomes:

• Numerous large-scale design refreshes and enhancements across multi-platform digital customer experience (over 20 million users).

• Supporting organizational changes with design toolsets, asset migrations, documentation requirements, general design process, and operation refinements.

• Training and mentoring of many designers/analysts to advance their skillsets and career growth.

I worked through the middle of my career as a consultant, delivering professional design services to fortune 500 - healthcare, financial, retail, social media, government, transportation, and tech companies worldwide (this included a ridiculous amount of travel, 70% at peak).

The high volume of work and exposure to numerous business situations gave me unique insight on the general similarities in our software experiences across industries.

Common engagements:

• Project leadership/augmentation

• Software and methodology adoption programs including training/mentoring, and center of excellence development

• Organizational change management

Consulting tempered my soft skills and sharpened my professional lens on:

• How design efforts integrate in waterfall, agile, and hybrid methodologies.

• Design communication for cross-functional teams (research, analyst, dev/QA, sponsor/stakeholder)

Design strategy and facilitation:

• Simulating with business stakeholders ‘at the speed of conversation’.

• Facilitating weeklong design-sprints with business stakeholders to achieve MVP prototypes.

• Working with varied business teams at Protothons – delivering clickable prototypes of fresh concepts.

• Building component libraries and design systems