Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
2009 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
Experienced Senior Designer developing next-gen mobile and desktop experiences for startups and corporations, delivering on:
• Leading information architecture and user interface development from the ground-up
• Rapid wireframing, flowmapping, and creating interactive prototypes for mobile and desktop interfaces
• Defining and auditing interaction systems and conducting real-world research
Example projects include:
• UX Architect & Interface designer for publicly-launched Dwelo, the smart apartment platform for property managers and residents to control and manage their homes at scale.
• Founding Lead Designer for MobileCoin, the privacy-first payment platform, including establishing their newest app Moby, establishing the design and specs for our payment integration in leading messaging platform Signal, and creating the design system and components for web and mobile app.
• Founding Designer and experience architect for Learnstream, the knowledge curation and sharing platform, including flow maps, wireframes, design system and coded microinteractions.
• Branding, Content strategy, , visual identity, branding, and content strategy for 5x leaders in biotech and financial services, including VersoFinancial.com and Calithera.com.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
Core member of the Product User Experience Strategy & Research team, influencing Climate DFS’s business strategy and FieldView product development direction
• Defined research projects’ scope, recruitment screening criteria and process, interview discussion guide, and created research activity materials for remote moderated co-creation sessions
• Performed industry pattern analyses competitors and broad-scope analogous consumer and B2B platforms
• Established our Team’s Figma Design system and continuously iterated as projects developed
• Established department-wide reference documents (ready-to-use templates with integrated when, how, and why guidance text) use by the team to rapidly create and articulate our research and strategy across multiple customer segments: Service Blueprints, Jobs To Be Done JTBD Maps, Journey Maps, Moment Maps, Research-Narrated Wire Flows, Wireflow Maps, and research findings and project summary whitepapers
• Led 7-week Figma instructional workshop, increasing competency levels for 8x teammates with guidance sessions, with hands-on activities for beginners and edge-case challenge exercises for advanced users
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
Sr Product Designer at Climate, a platform which analyzes real-time satellite imagery into data visualization and actionable insights for farmers globally. We're helping farmers sustainably improve their yield, enhance land and water efficiency, and manage increasing climate risks.
• Designing consistent multi-channel solutions across our platform's 3x iOS apps, 2x iPad apps, 2x Android apps, and responsive webapps. (FieldView Yield Analysis, MarCom Management, Vehicle Fleet Data Sync)
• Responsible for conceptualization, validation, design ideation, and documentation of UX and UI to launch features for precision planting agricultural operations (Advanced Imagery Global Rollout, Operation Reporting)
• Conducting ongoing research with Growers, Farmers, Dealers and Agronomists (Climate.com, Next-Gen Platform, Next Gen Reporting)
• Collaborating with our science and engineering teams to translate ML-based advanced analysis and mapping into features our farmers can use (FieldView App, Weather Tool)
• Establishing a cross-platform design system, and team component library to improve Climate's design language and accelerate prototyping (FieldView Design System Data Tables, Global Navigation, User Settings)
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior UX Designer for BOLD’s mobile capabilities, producing improvements for our current shipping apps and leading our future-state initiatives.
• Delivered new solutions and iterative improvements for our mobile app lineup, from inception to feature launch across iOS, Android, and our Responsive Web apps.
• Led longterm future-state research and envisioning initiatives, defined our core mobile differentiation strategy.
• Established our mobile apps design system which integrated our multiple sub-brands’ visual styles, while rolling out a brand-agnostic “white-label” library for rapid concept design and prototyping.
Education
California College of the Arts