# Vanessa Alvarez > Senior Product Designer | Design Systems | Web Accessibility Engineer | UX Engineer Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vanessaalvarez Highly skilled product designer specializing in data-driven interfaces and accessible design systems complemented by a strong ‍front-end background. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Quest Diagnostics Jan 2023 – Present | Remote • Scaling Through Design Systems: Increased the efficiency and consistency of AI development as a core contributor to PRO DS, Quest's enterprise design system. Designed, tested, and documented AI chat patterns that established Quest’s first standardized set of rules for AI conversations, reducing duplicate effort and empowering multiple teams to build quickly and accessibly. • Longitudinal Patient History (LHX): Reduced patient burden and clinical information gaps by designing the physician-facing solution that integrates three years of patient lab history into Athena and eCW. Delivered both table and chart views that surface out-of-range results and allow clinical comparisons, eliminating manual record-sharing for patients. • Laboratory HQ: Improved the turnaround time for patient test results by leading the design of the Laboratory HQ platform. The platform empowers lab technicians to independently track patient tests and fix problems in-house, eliminating reliance on external third-party services and achieving a notable gain in operational speed. ### Senior Product Designer - Design System @ Prudential Financial Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote • Streamlined workflows and product alignment across Prudential internal teams by delivering well-documented reusable components for Evolution, Prudential’s first enterprise-grade design system. Evolution web components have increased productivity through design-to-dev handoffs, built innovative products at scale faster, and ensured a high-quality end-user experience. • Upheld Web Accessibility Standards requirements for our Design System through direct partnership with our in-house accessibility team. • Collaborated with Engineers to establish the adoption of design tokens to support theming. • Improved the usability of Prudential's design system library by transitioning 20+ components from Adobe XD to Figma. Modernized the components with the latest Figma features. • Launched new Data Visualization components (Line, Area, Bubble, Gauge, and Donut Charts) for Evolution’s design system. The result of these components was based on user research needs and using my engineering skills to know the features and limitations the charting library provided. Documented with detailed usage guidelines that teach designers and engineers when/how to use components and patterns with anatomy and examples. • Partnered with developers to ensure designs were accurately and efficiently implemented. • Collaborated with the team to improve quality and consistency to maintain our design system's high standards through critique and feedback through peer reviews. ### Front End Engineer @ PatientPop Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote • Built and delivered well-documented reusable UI components for our internal design system library. The patient's Pop UI component library unified the user experience across products and boosted the delivery turnaround of new platform features. • Provide consultation for Web Accessibility guidelines by identifying and solving accessibility issues in the patient's portal and private practice websites. • Developed and launched a self-serve platform that enables clients to manage their private practice website content. 
The platform provides internal labor cost savings and allows clients to deliver updates to their end-users within hours. ### User Experience Engineer - Design System @ Alkami Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Plano, TX • Increased productivity and product alignment across internal teams by delivering well-documented reusable components for Iris, our internal design system library. These web components have enabled Alkami to build faster products at scale and consistently deliver a user interface that ensures a high-quality user experience for our clients. • Act as subject matter expert for Web Accessibility by mentoring, consulting, and providing teaching sessions to fellow Front End and Full Stack Engineers. Helped to identify, suggest and develop code that meets all ADA compliance and brings solutions for accessibility barriers. • Automated the creation of client’s themes by building a platform where clients can create their branding customization in the application. • Support and maintain the Front End of our digital banking web application using: Razor, HTML, Sass, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js • Collaborate with designers to bring their Figma mockups to the screen in multiple browsers. ### UI Developer @ Apptricity Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Irving, TX • Developed and designed the UI for the company's latest web Expense Application, using: HTML5, Bootstrap, Sass, and AngularJS. • Designed mockups using Sketch and delivered them in a timely fashion to fellow UI developers and the Mobile team. • Worked in an Agile environment using Atlassian products such as JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket. • Responsible for developing a responsive Expense app with cross-browser compatibility. • Integrated third-party libraries such as UI-Bootstrap, UI-Router, drag-and-drop. ### Graphic Designer @ Whole Foods Market Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Coral Gables, FL • Graphic Artist for a high volume and demanding marketing team. • Accountable for the adherence to company brand standards. • Responsible for the creation, design and production of all advertising and marketing collateral store wide. • Increase sales and brand identity by creating captivating displays and menus using chalk ink markers. • Work independently and under the guidance of Regional Art Director. ## Education ### Associate’s Degree in Graphic Design The Art Institute ### Design System Program Memorisely ### UX/UI Design Program Memorisely ### Front End Web Development Devmountain ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vanessaalvarez - Portfolio: https://www.vanessalvarez.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/vanessaalvarez JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vanessaalvarez/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31