In my 20+ years of digital experience, I've had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small mom and pop shops. I have a strong background in concept development and interaction with a focus on visual design.

2023 — NowSeekOutPrincipal Product Designer

2023 — Now

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Owning experiences across all SeekOut products and AI incubation projects.

Aligning with leadership and multiple disciplines.

Fine-tuning the design process and finding new ways to enhance efficiency.

Mentoring more junior designers.

Developing a comprehensive design library that includes fonts, colors, tokens, icons, illustrations, components, and patterns.

2022 — 2023SeekOutSenior Product Designer

2022 — 2023

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Owning the design for SeekOut Recruit product.

Designing intricate end-to-end workflows and features that cater to customer needs and alleviate their pain points.

Utilizing data to validate designs through monitoring metrics and conducting user interviews.

Collaborating with the Customer Success team to comprehend user pain points.

Working with Product Managers to define product direction and business objectives.

Collaborating with Engineers throughout the design process to assess technical feasibility, implement new features, and update existing ones.

2020 — 2022MicrosoftSenior UX/UI Designer

2020 — 2022

Redmond, Washington, United States

Lead the Store Studio team on the Adobe Experience Manager migration.

Worked with PMs and engineering team to build internal tools.

Content strategy for new page templates and component configurations.

Collaborated with engineers on resolving bugs, feature requests, automation tools, and user acceptance testing.

Worked across multiple teams to support the roll out of new features.

Ensuring that components and page builds are a11y compliant.

Trained team members on template creation, page authoring best practices, and new

features/capabilities.

Documented process, template creation, and build specifications.

Designed and prototyped new user experiences and presenting to key stakeholders.

Articulated design decisions and advocating for optimal user experiences.

2014 — 2020Fell SwoopDesign Director

2014 — 2020

Seattle, Washington, United States

End-to-end UX and visual design lead on responsive e-commerce websites, responsive web apps, device UI projects, and native mobile apps.

Established design standards, defined design process, and mentored designers.

Developed visual design systems, components, and pattern libraries.

Defined project scope, goals, developed personas, use cases, created user flows, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, annotated rules, interactions, behaviors, and design documentation.

Collaborated with developers on implementation and QA.

Writing test cases and observing user testing.

Estimated projects, team resourcing, and managed budgets.

Presented work to and collaborated with clients.

Worked on new business pitches.