Kunai Co. is a team of developers, designers and product managers building seamless customer experiences that unite digital products with Fintech for Fortune 500 companies.

Generalist jack of all trades part-time contract designer from branding to product for Romio, a limited NYC area series A startup for on-demand local services.

• Creating Romio’s zero-to-one design system with scalable and versatile Figma components.

• Defining brand and style guidelines from the bottom up by collaborating with the CEO and top Directors, leading art direction plus prompt engineering in creating generative AI images and assets.

• Redesigning and rebranding Romio’s major service icons, aligning them to a 24x24 pixel-perfect grid.

• Stepped up as the primary caregiver while concurrently onboarding as a Sr Product Designer Lead.

• Saved my family’s life multiple times by making the executive decisions to call an ambulance or go to the ER.

• Assisted beating cancer into full remission.

Lead designer on the Growth and Design Systems teams for a B2B SaaS platform that welcomes visitors, books desks, and manages offices in over 20,000 locations worldwide.

• Improved product activation by 21% on the Growth team with experiments, user-centered design hypothesis, and A/B tests informed and measured by customer feedback, interviews, and analytics.

• Created and published over 500 atomically designed Figma library components on new desktop web and native iPhone design libraries and design systems.

• Increased product designer efficiency company-wide by heading design system adoption and workshops.

• Authored design system best practices and processes documentation to ensure cohesive and consistent scaling by heading cross-team product, design, and engineering syncs and collaborations.

• Leading the creation of design systems and Figma component libraries on desktop web, mobile app, and tablet

• Partnering with engineering on the development of matching web and native app components

• Managing partnerships spanning cross-functional and multi-product areas from product design, brand design, web engineers, native mobile engineers, engineering leads, product managers, and group leads all the way to the C-level for Design System planning and execution

• Partnering cross functionally with the Brand Design team to strengthen and synergize Design Systems with the Envoy Brand Design look and feel

An enterprise SaaS platform targeted for B2B services that’s like a combination of Salesforce plus Google Maps.

• Improving mobile app satisfaction by over 20% as the lead designer of Find A Contact.

• Strengthening the Design System by creating and refining over 50 design library components

• Improving company-wide communication and collaboration by creating a standardized UX Personas deck.

• Working with the team to develop and refine features. This takes the form of research, user flows, screen flows, wireframes, visual designs, prototyping, and developer handoff.

• Performing competitive audits and general industry research

• Conducting user research to find insights, refine personas, and create hypothesis

• Creating and maintaining component-based design systems

• Specifying documentation for developers and QA designs through development

• Gathering user feedback from the customer success team in order to iterate on features and make them better

The fifth-largest bank in the United States, US Bank is one of the country's most respected, innovative and successful financial institutions.

• Growing 300,000 new Zelle users in a year and creating a 58% year-over-year growth in P2P transactions, by improving the sign-up bounce rate by 13 points with redesigned mobile app user flows, CTAs, illustrations, and layouts

• Improving Ease of Use and Money Movement scores in the mobile app that contributed to U.S Bank ranking 2nd place in Javelin Research's "Mobile Banking Overall Best in Class" among the top 25 U.S. financial institutions

• Elevating the accessibility rating of ATM’s user interface from 2010 ADA Standards to WCAG 2.0 AA with improved UI and screen reader compatible elements

• Largest contributor to in-house design system outside of dedicated design system team

• Delivering end-to-end UX artifacts, including user personas, wireframes, user flow diagrams, user interviews and usability sessions, versioned prototypes, and final hi-fi mockups

• Mentoring and growing visual and UX designers

• Developing team training

Roostify is a digital mortgage SaaS responsive web platform that simplifies and accelerates the home-buying experience. Clients include Chase Bank, Guild Mortgage, and TD America.

• Principal designer of major new features at Roostify, securing $15 Million+ deals, including new security, and architecture, collaborating with engineering to touch every piece of code

• Increasing overall efficiency by 30% of Roostify's clients through an improved digital application experience

• Redesigning the entire architecture from a max of 2 borrowers to 4-plus on the same loan application, collaborating with engineering to touch every piece of code

• Designer of Roostify Adapt - multiple branch/account management

• Responsible for every step of the design process - including mapping user flows, creating mockups and designing high-fidelity UIs across Roostify's websites and apps

• Developing team training

Vlocity is the first kind of company ushering in the next wave of Cloud Computing. Specifically, creating, from scratch - The Industry Cloud. The Industry Cloud is designed to meet the critical omni-channel sales, service and marketing drivers across healthcare, telecommunications, and insurance for the biggest brands on the globe.

• Securing $35 Million+ contracts with top comms and insurance leaders at Vlocity through delightful sales prototypes and actual implementation

• Leading the charge in creating compelling, high-fidelity, aesthetically pleasing product demonstrations that lead to revenue

• Managing high profile client projects with 4 to 12 team members

• Designing Web plus Native and Hybrid App UI/UX, workflows, QA testing, and usability testing

• Tools: Guerilla UX, Heuristics, User Testing, Wireframes, Prototypes, Mockups, Sketch, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator, Salesforce, Cloud Computing, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Angular, Bootstrap, Lightning Design System, Excel, PowerPoint, Video Documentation, Multi-Browser Testing, App Testing

Designing user-first improvements to a mobile-first website that serves over 4.2 Million members. Integrating best UX patterns and practices on a tech stack including Drupal, SFDC, HTML5, and CSS3.

• Raising the Net Promoter Score by 4 points, by spearheading an improved map ordering experience

• Leading UI / UX Design to serve 4.2 Million members

• Owning overall UX for new responsive design web interface

• Managing cross functional teams of 6-15 members, made of designers, developers, and business admins, utilizing Agile methodologies

• Leading concept creation of wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction design ideas

• Presenting and defending designs and key milestone deliverables to designers, developers, business managers, up to C-level stakeholders

• Tools: Heuristics, Google Analytics, User Surveys, Wireframes, Prototypes, Balsamiq, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, Zurb Foundation Framework, Drupal, Video Documentation, Multi-Browser Testing, Adobe Inspect (mobile-device web inspector)

Leading UI/UX web, app, interactive and marketing design/development following the latest technology and standards, while incorporating tried and true traditional design skills and styles.

Focusing on HTML5, responsive design, and flat UI patterns.

Sample clients:

• Cost Plus World Market, Oakland CA

• UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education, Berkeley CA

• Model N, Redwood City CA

• BrightRoll, San Francisco CA

(UX Designer, Web Developer, Social Media Manager and Graphic Designer)

The Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association (PCFMA) is the largest farmers' market association in the U.S., operating over 70 markets spanning from Santa Teresa in the South Bay up to Vacaville in the North Bay.

• UX and Web development of a dynamic PHP/MySQL website with 1,000-plus pages

• Rocketing mobile redirect from 26% to 100%, based on Google Analytics traffic funnels

• Social media management and content creation across 19 distinctive brands

• Record-setting 833% organic increase (no ads) Facebook Page Likes in a single year through social media management and engagement

• Graphic design in print and digital formats for 70-plus unique markets

Founded in 1964 at Waikiki's International Marketplace, the Crazy Shirts brand has risen to be recognized as an international icon. Innovation is a pillar that the company proudly stands on, pioneering specialty dyed products utilizing exotic materials such as volcanic ash, wine and chiles.

• Conceptualizing illustrations and graphic designs based on seasonal/monthly categories and nonspecific keywords

• Creating rough sketches to be digitized upon approval into compatible Photoshop or Illustrator files

• Separating art files into compatible silkscreen-ready color separated layers

The Department of Art and Art History includes two galleries. They aim to serve as laboratories for the critical exploration of ideas about historical and contemporary art, design, culture, and society; and contribute to the cultural life of the region.

• Planning exhibitions for the University of Hawai'i Art Gallery and Commons Gallery

• Prototyping 2D and 3D scale mockups

• Evaluating user interaction, pace and flow

• Managing teams from 10 to 28 people

• Cataloging and photography of artworks

• Arranging, installation and lighting of artworks

• Constructing custom display cases, shelving and frames

• Coordinating drop-off and pickup of artwork