• Worked with over 33 clients over the course of my career from several industries and built strong relationships with clients, effectively understanding their business goals and translating them into successful design solutions.

• Engage clients and co-workers through presentations, storytelling, demos, and workshops.

• Developed and executed strategic design plans, aligning design initiatives with overall product and business strategies.

• Manage project timelines and design resources, ensuring successful project delivery within scope and on schedule.

• Lead design teams on a project-to-project basis, providing guidance, mentorship, and feedback to ensure high-quality design outputs and professional growth of team members.

• Successfully created multiple large scale design system for clients that ensure consistency and scalability across products and platforms. Established and led a new large scale design system and governance model for a design system that is now being adopted by it’s parent company

• Established myself as a design system SME and evangelize the implementation of design system practices for efficient and cohesive design workflows within the company.

• Oversee the end-to-end product design process, from ideation to implementation, ensuring that user needs, business goals, and technical constraints were addressed throughout.

• Collaborated closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define product vision, requirements, and roadmaps, and to ensure seamless integration of design and development efforts.

• Oversee and manage employees as a lead designer and manager, providing guidance, mentorship, and feedback to foster professional growth and ensure high-performance outcomes.

• Collaborated with clients to conceptualize and bring mobile and web experiences to life, utilizing sketching, wireframing, high-fidelity designs, and prototyping.

• Worked closely with designers, copywriters, and developers to establish and execute scalable and innovative design systems, pushing the boundaries of clients' digital experiences.

• Led the implementation of large-scale design systems, enhancing design team productivity, ensuring product consistency, and facilitating smooth engineering hand-off.

• Conducted comprehensive research and analysis of market trends, user behaviors, and competitor offerings to drive product design strategies and foster innovation.

• Utilized user research, usability testing, and user feedback sessions to gather valuable insights and validate design decisions, iteratively improving designs based on user needs and feedback.

• Produced high-quality designs, documents, and specifications to facilitate development processes.

• Streamlined workflows to increase efficiency in the design process and enhance the governance of design systems.

• Engaged clients and colleagues through impactful presentations, storytelling, demos, and workshops to effectively communicate design concepts and drive collaboration.

• Work with clients to conceptualize and bring mobile and web experiences to life through sketching, wireframing, high-fidelity designs, and prototyping.

• Work collaboratively with designers, copywriters, and developers to establish and execute scalable and thoughtful design systems that stretch thinking and capabilities of clients' current digital experiences.

• Produce high-fidelity designs, documents, and specifications for development

• Improve workflows to increase efficiency in the design process

• Work with clients to conceptualize and bring mobile and web experiences to life through sketching, wireframing, high-fidelity designs, and prototyping.

• Work collaboratively with lead designers, copywriters, and developers to establish and execute scalable and thoughtful design systems that stretch thinking and capabilities of clients' current digital experiences.

• Produce high-fidelity designs, documents, and specifications for development

• Improve workflows to increase efficiency in the design process

• Work collaboratively with UX designers and leads to determine user experience design practices, establish visual design systems, and define interactions

• Produce high fidelity designs, prototypes, annotations, and style guides.

• Work with design leads to produce high fidelity designs and prototypes

• Establish visual design systems and documentation

• Create internal marketing materials as well as workshop materials

• Developed effective product solutions through a process of brainstorming, sketching, wireframing, and user testing to achieve the desired result.

• Exercised different design tools to create a variety of brand identities and web and mobile designs.

• Executed 4 capstone projects in less than 2 months.

• Completed 12 web pages (2 Responsive) , 3 branding projects, and 2 mobile designs in 5 months.

• Routine operation of large scale bioprocessing equipment and automated control systems relevant to upstream and downstream processing.

• Broad understanding of manufacturing process, compliance, standard operating procedures, and good documentation practices.

• Routinely applied basic chemistry, biology, troubleshooting techniques, and scientific principles necessary for successful operations.

• Actively participated in controlled document revisions, preparation of new buffer batch records, process improvement, and maintainance of livelink databases.

• Successfully executed multiple projects to increase efficiency and functionality of production suites, as well as continuous maintainance of suites for inspection readiness.

• Proficiency in batch recording, data capturing, and data analysis.

• Effectively communicated interdepartmentally to foster symbiotic partnerships.

• Proficient with Microsoft (Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Livelink, Oracle, LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), Pi Processbook, and MODA-EM (MODA-Environmental Monitoring).

• Lend-A-Tech at Facilities Compliance (May 2014- June 2014)

o Regularly operated programs such as Computerized Maintainance Management System (CMMS) and conducted monthly work order audits. Compiled reports for completeness, adherance to GMP regulations, as well as BioMarin policies and procedures.

o Contributed to evaluations, investigation research, and proposed changes of standard operating procedures, records, and material specifications.

o Communicated with specialists and management to ensure timely completion of records pertaining to any deviations, change controls, and SOP changes.

• Routinely prepared buffer and media for process operations.

• Regularly trained new team members on BioMarin procedures, documentation practices, and technical duties.

• Performed daily tasks to support clinical manufacturing operations.

• Ownership of multiple projects: rust mitigation, freezer inventory, and organizational projects.

• Conducted extensive screenings of transgenic lines of Arabidopsis transformed with the promoter of tomato plasma membrane ATPase LHA4:GUS and LHA2:GFP via plant culture techniques, histological detection, PCR, DNA gel electrophoresis.

• Analysis of American River soil to determine relative abundance of Arbuscular Mycorrizal Fungi (AMF) through collaboration with team members to perform TOPO TA Cloning, PCR, and DNA gel electrophoresis of AMF target gene.

• Performed administrative and secretarial support for the manager, executed various projects, routine HVAC scheduling, provided telephone support, and assisted with work order and billing processing.