experienced, adaptable, and collaborative designer

Senior User Experience Designer

• 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.

Senior Product Designer

• 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.

Senior Creative Designer

• 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.

Design Director

• Led design for all interactive initiatives, including all online properties and products, a native iOS application, as well as subscriber email communications.

Lead UX/UI Designer & Art Director

• 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.

Graphic Designer

• 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.