experienced, adaptable, and collaborative designer

Accomplished full-stack designer with extensive experience in product design, UX/UI, web design, and design leadership. Collaboratively led K-12 education platform design enhancements at McGraw Hill, developed a scalable design system at Union Home Mortgage, and managed end-to-end design solutions at CBS Interactive. Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, team leadership, and creating impactful, user-centered experiences that drive business success.

My Resume

Work History

McGraw Hill Education

Senior User Experience Designer

December 2022 — December 2024
  • Collaboratively led the Teacher Experience Design team for the Open Learning Platform.
  • Proactively collaborated with instructional designers, academic designers, engineers, and product managers to deliver user-centered design solutions.
  • Developed new features to facilitate more efficient teaching processes for K-12 educators.
  • Iteratively upgraded the user interface, ensuring simple, elegant, scalable, frictionaless, and intuitive experiences that increase user trust and delight.
Union Home Mortgage

Senior Product Designer

April 2021 - December 2022
  • Developed a skeleton design system and HTML/CSS components for internal custom software, enhancing team efficiency and streamlining software development processes.
  • Worked closely with back-end engineers to expedite the creation of new custom software applications through systems thinking and effective collaboration.
  • Implemented design solutions that addressed complex technology problems, contributing to the overall efficiency of the organization.
Robots & Pencils

Senior Creative Designer

December 2018 - April 2020
  • Collaborated with a diverse range of clients across various industries, including financial, construction, and 0-1 initiatives.
  • Provided both on-site and remote leadership to client teams.
  • Worked hand-in-hand with engineering teams in an agile format.
OZY Media

Design Director

January 2018 - December 2018
  • Led design for all interactive initiatives, including all online properties and products, a native iOS application, as well as subscriber email communications.
CBS Interactive

Lead UX/UI Designer & Art Director

February 2011 - January 2018
  • Led the design and user experience for the CNET News product and special feature editorials.
  • Managed all design projects end-to-end; from concept to development.
  • Collaborated with editors, writers, and engineers to ensure business goals were exceeded.
Professional Photographers of America

Graphic Designer

September 2006 - February 2011
  • Part of the internal marketing and communications team promoting membership, producing tradeshow graphics, magazine layouts and advertising campaigns as part of a highly collaborative, small team.
Featured Work
Systems

Create a good baseline foundation for backend focused engineers to quickly, and efficiently spin up custom applications for internal business partners.

Platforms

Terafina, Inc. streamlines onboarding and sales experiences for banks and credit unions across multiple channels.

Applications

A novel application for managing, utilizing, storing, and sharing Personally identifiable Information when you need it most and at your fingertips.

Applications

Being a homeowner is a job in and of itself. Rümi is here to make home ownership a little bit easier.

Collections

A collection of various editorial package identities that take complex ideas and distill them into simplicity through the use of easily understandable visuals.

Imaging USA is the first major photographic convention & expo of the year and is put on by Professional Photographers of America. A campaign to grow membership and expo attendance.

This piece that compares the two iconic comic book franchises and their cinematic universes to determine who does it best.

Various data visualizations for CNET magazine, editorial and online implementations.