Collaborate with other product leaders to manage the end-to-end product development process and maintain accountability for user experience quality.

Enable and support my team in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.

Ship world-class security experiences that delight consumers with an emphasis on craft, quality, trust, and positive user and security impact.

Manage a team of world-class designers of all experience levels, supporting their professional growth and helping them to deliver amazing experiences.

Own the user experience for Microsoft Defender and Defender Experts. Lead to ensure that user needs and behaviors are well understood, product requirements are aligned, and the designed experiences enable successful outcomes for their users.

Craft intuitive experiences that empower security professionals to maximize the value of Microsoft Sentinel.

Communicate and build consensus around all aspects of the design direction.

Understand the array of technical constraints, user goals, and business requirements.

Provide continuing, hands-on design support to engineering crews during software development to ensure a high-quality end-product.

Provide guidance and build a network of support system for Chapter leaders in the North America region.

Work with the global leadership team to define and implement processes that help improve the experience of over 20,000 Ladies that UX members.

Lead and grow a women forward UX meetup group in the Seattle area with 3500+ members.

Partner with various organizations such as Google, Amazon, Zillow, BestBuy, Airbnb, General Assembly, and Code Fellows to host and plan monthly UX events.

Recruit Planning Committee members. Mentor and guide planning members to continue to grow and explore different solutions that address the needs of the Seattle UX community.

Work directly with C-level executives and partner with product and engineering teams to align on problems and product direction, evaluate success criteria, and prioritize an efficient roadmap.

Mentor, grow, and recruit UX talent and advocate for user-centered design practices.

Inspire and lead teams of designers in the creation of delightful, easy-to-use experiences and validated through testing.

Lead UX/UI design at Plain Concepts USA.

Develop strategies that are innovative and strategically on-target.

Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks.

Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas largely for Microsoft clients.

Lead Art Director on the AT&T acquisition team.

Concept and strategize on AT&T projects to bring meaningful results through responsive web, mobile, tablet, and print design.

Work with Creative Directors to develop high level ideas and present work to clients external and internally.

Design high-visibility print and digital work for the AT&T customer lifecycle management team including the AT&T eNewsletter.

Manage AT&T print and interactive design from Creative set up to file release to vendor.

Work with Project Managers, Designers and Art Directors to complete comps, designs and edits.

Anticipates problems and opportunities and brings them to the attention of the appropriate team member(s) immediately.

Help non-profit organizations with their design needs.

Work with project managers and external clients to develop and design a variety of illustrative materials such as brochures, booklets, posters, websites, and other marketing and training materials.

Design, develop and maintain the Center for Learning Connection’s web site; recommend and implement changes.

Teach design classes such as:

Digital Imaging - An introduction to digital image editing as used in the graphic design industry (mainly focused in Photoshop). Students learned software, terminology, and photo manipulation techniques through completion of computer design projects for both print and web layout.

Digital Prepress -

Students explored methods used to successfully transfer images from the computer to print and digital media in depth. This was a process-based course that concentrates on the numerous technical design choices that need to be made to produce well-crafted page layouts.