Working within Core to design AI-powered platforms that enable engineering teams to rapidly build and monitor internal systems, increasing productivity while encouraging best practices for security and reliability

• 2023 Eureka! Award: This award recognizes the Googler who thought about a problem differently or conjured a unique solution to a challenge/bug/issue

• Shark Tank 2024, 1st place: Developed winning strategy for intelligence gathering and continuous improvement of engineering well-lit paths

Design Systems speaker and Material contributor

As Design System Lead, my goals were: to shift our culture from siloed designers to a collaborative matrixed design team that shares assets and mental models across products; to encourage a better relationship between design and engineering; and to save the org time in building and maintaining applications while addressing business goals like FAIR data.

• Worked with senior leadership and cross-functional partners to get buy-in for a strategic initiative to improve the quality of our internal products, while supporting more efficient and sustainable design & development processes.

• Led the UI Audit initiative to get an overview of the design team’s current product landscape, encouraging a more systematic way of designing.

• Brought together designers and front-end engineers to create a new vision for software that supported the CIO’s mission.

• Mentored designers in Figma adoption and organized weekly “design swarms” to brainstorm, critique, and collaborate.

• Created contribution process and started Design System community.

• Created a cohesive design system in Figma for use across our scientific research applications with documentation.

Designed web applications for complex drug research and internal services following iterative, user-centered best practices, resulting in software that supports faster workflows with less errors. Advocated for the value of UX beyond aesthetics, creating enterprise software with the quality and care expected of consumer apps.

• Interviewed stakeholders, facilitated design thinking workshops, performed usability tests to determine direction of products.

• Designed and tested UIs using low-fidelity sketches and high-fidelity clickable prototypes. Matured team process from PDFs to InVision, increasing velocity and improving testing & handoff.

• Collaborated with software engineers to prioritize requirements and manage implementation, ensuring cross-functional engagement and a high-quality product.

• Designed and maintained software style guide. Worked with Novartis Communications to adopt branding style guidelines to scientific enterprise applications, giving our team the trust and autonomy to create without oversight.

• Designed and developed team web portal to share our services and UX learning material with the org, significantly improving the visibility of user experience in NIBR.

• Created interface designs informed by UX research and client communications

• Fast-paced environment that demands versatility and the ability to pick up projects with little direction

• Agile development process

Clients: Arbella Insurance, Aqua Products, Bay Path College, Edvisors, iZotope, Money Management International, NYSUT, Rifton, Standard Pacific Homes, Thales e-Security, UMass Amherst

• Designed websites, app UIs, and marketing materials for small businesses and startups in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

• Front end development in HTML5 and CSS3, Wordpress

• Participated in hackathons: GiveCamp, HackFit

Clients: Aquent, MarketMeSuite, Good Measures, Softcafe, SkyNite Privie, Esplanade Association, Sweet Idea!, The Ad Club, Personiform, MIT, Beginex

• Developed complete interpretive graphic systems for exhibits (information panels, interactive elements, and environmental graphics)

• Collaborated with architects, fabricators, clients, and education specialists

• Other functions: content developer, photo rights, photo research, illustration, marketing

Clients include: GulfQuest Museum, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Houston Zoo, Dallas Children's Aquarium, Zoo Miami, National Audubon Society

Komaza Magazine: Designed logo and visual identity for the magazine. Created layouts for 2-4 issues per year. Also had role as copywriter and illustrator (2009-2012)

Battlecode Competition: Created newer, more professional, cooler brand for Battlecode competition to increase participation. Designed web graphics, posters, t-shirts. Assisted with in-game graphics. Redesigned logo. Contracted illustrators to create custom art. (2008-2012)

• Created concepts for signage & wayfinding for a variety of clients: universities, museums, shopping centers, public spaces

• Prepared design drawings, contract documents, sign schedules, and sign location plans

• Assembled client presentations and marketing documents

Clients include: Boston University, WS Developments (Legacy Place Lifestyle Center), Safdie Architects (US Institute of Peace), Tufts University, Gund Partnership

• Designed logos for small businesses

• Set up print production files for albums by Sony Records

• Maintained company website and created HTML-based marketing emails with Dreamweaver