I take joy in crafting exceptional products. As a passionate Product Designer with 14+ years of experience, I craft empathy-driven, user-centered products. I specialize in translating complex concepts into intuitive, beautiful interfaces and excel in guiding ideas from concept to polished product. Thriving in both fast-paced startups and larger enterprises, my strengths include:
• Empathetic, User-Centered Design: Employing an end-to-end development process, ensuring pixel-perfect, high-quality designs through rapid prototyping.
• Effective Communication: Skilled at collaborating with engineering teams, building design systems, and documenting the design process thoroughly.
• Leadership and Mentorship: A self-starter with a history of entrepreneurial drive, motivated to lead and mentor fellow designers.
Work Experience
2023 - 2024
Lead Product Designer at Wonderment
(contract)
• Designed and built an AI-powered CRM from scratch, including data-driven dashboards, table interfaces, AI-powered filters, and visual interfaces. Applied user-centered design and data-driven design principles to enhance the buyer journey by developing an LLM-powered customer dashboard for e-commerce.
2022 - 2023
Lead Product Designer at Arist
(contract)
• Designed and developed an AI-powered course builder for micro-learning, creating a reusable component library to streamline the development process. Contributed to groundbreaking e-learning features and products, enhancing the user experience with advanced real-time AI feedback and suggestions.
2022 - 2023
Director of Design at Narvar
(layoffs)
• Directed the AI-aligned design vision for Narvar’s suite of commerce products, ensuring cohesive and responsive user experiences. Led a team of 10+ designers to deliver beautiful, easy-to-use applications through cross-functional collaboration and agile methodologies. Launched over 10 new features, revamped the user dashboard, and developed a scalable design system, bringing consistent design across all applications.
2021 - 2022
Director of Product Design at Chartmetric
• Led and mentored a team of product designers at Chartmetric, a music analytics platform. Applied design leadership and stakeholder management to design and ship over 40 features, revamp the dashboard, and create a comprehensive component library. This resulted in enhanced user experiences and a significant increase in revenue.
2013 - 2021
Lead UI Designer & Design Engineer at SurveyMonkey
• Designed and developed multiple applications from the ground up, focusing on user-centered design for SurveyMonkey’s CX dashboards. Integrated NPS analytics and metrics into business e-commerce and polling software, enabling data-driven decision-making and improving user satisfaction across brands by 30%.
Education
• Bachelor of Science, Human-Computer Interaction at Purdue University
• Certified Usability Analyst (CUA), Human Factors International
• Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Awards
• US Patent for Cervical Contour Pillow, Trademark Granted for Lofty Sleep® Logo
• Figma Socks Award for debugging a shadow layering bug in Figma.
• Designed UI for Eddy Award Winning Mac app VMWare Fusion
Industry Experience
• Successfully collaborated with top-tier clients, including Apple, Google Ventures, Meta (Facebook), Walmart.com, VMware, and Disney Interactive.
Skills
• Design: From user research and wire-framing to prototyping and final design, ensuring user-centered and visually appealing outcomes.
• Technical: HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript, React. Experience training AI models including GaNs and LLMs.
• Tools: Figma, Raycast, Sketch, Storybook JS, Adobe CS, VSCode, Framer, Webflow