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.

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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.

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Terafina, Inc.

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

ATB

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

ATCO

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