Engineer within the UX/UI Design team.

• Designed and built comprehensive app prototypes using advanced Figma, Spline, and code techniques to validate complex user experiences. This includes a satellite analysis tool and an AI agent.

• Architected a design system from the ground up, personally creating design tokens and Material UI themes while establishing developer-friendly processes.

• Developed custom Figma plugins to bridge design-development workflows, directly improving team efficiency through hands-on tool creation.

• Started a custom AI system, whose backend was a combination of a RAG Orchestration Framework (LlamaIndex), Model (Anthropic API), and Vector DB (Chroma). It also used Pyrdantic AI. The frontend was React.

Led Cox's enterprise-wide Design System strategy across 4 brands, driving adoption and consistency at scale.

• Owned all hands-on design system production within Figma—updating components, building new variants, optimizing auto-layouts, and architecting token sets—while leading the strategic evaluation and planning for future system evolution.

• Established design token architecture that became the foundation for all product development teams.

• Drove organizational change through comprehensive research program (user interviews, surveys, office hours) that informed system evolution and adoption strategies.

• Influenced product strategy through participation in high-level, multi-disciplinary meetings, ensuring design system alignment with business goals.

Subject Matter Expert in Design Tokens.

• Built token systems for two design systems (Cox Communications and Google).

• Created educational materials and conducted user interviews which helped designers and engineers (client & internal) understand the value of tokens and uncover their pain points.

Contract work for a publishing client.

• Designed and built a complete design and token system, handling Figma component creation, token architecture, and front-end implementation.

• Executed end-to-end UX design work while establishing scalable design processes for the organization.