Delivering end-to-end design solutions that are user-friendly and beautifully crafted.

I’m a Product Designer with expertise in enterprise and consumer apps, websites, scalable design systems, and brand direction. Using data-driven design methods and connecting user insights, design patterns, and business goals, I apply human-centered principles to inform decisions, transforming complex information into seamless, beautifully crafted experiences that resonate with users.

Core Skills

  • Design Direction

  • Interaction Design

  • Leadership and Team Management

  • Product Strategy

  • User Research + Testing

  • User Experience Design

  • Visual Design

Work
Experience

An experience design consultancy offering full-stack UI/UX, social media, and branding services for large and small businesses, start-ups, and design agencies. Design and development of apps, websites, content, and scalable design systems, that align business goals with innovation, usability, and accessibility.

Freelance
Nov 2024 – Present
Truckee, CA

Sirris Design

3.5 years
San Francisco, CA

Senior Product Designer
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024 • 1.5 years

Product Designer
Jul 2021 - Jul 2023 • 2 years

Dolby Laboratories

Worked directly with product leadership, marketing, and global engineering teams to define strategy and design vision, empowering SaaS partners and developers to create customized streaming, video, and media solutions using Dolby's proprietary APIs and SDKs.

  • Leadership: Mentored and led design team, enabling personal growth and optimizing impact.

  • Collaboration: Partnered with global teams to align design with business goals and user needs.

  • Design System: Built design system from scratch unifying product and marketing, increasing 
design and engineering productivity by 52% (Web, iOS, and Android).

  • Research: Conducted primary and secondary user research activities with internal stakeholders and 
end-users for requirement and roadmap validation, concept valuation, and usability testing.

  • Onboarding: Improved onboarding through usability testing, increasing traffic by 11% and registrations by 17%.

  • Dashboard: Simplified UX flows, resulting in a 22% conversion rate increase and 2K daily check-ins.

  • Product Features: Led design strategy and execution for 10+ core features – Music Mastering, Live Events, Watch with Others, Stream Monitor, aligning business goals with user needs from inception to launch.

  • Apps: Directed UI/UX for streaming and media consumer apps, delivering 12+ mobile, web, and TV apps showcased in the Apple and Google Play stores, highlighting SDK use cases.

  • SoundCloud: Led UI/UX Music Mastering app SoundCloud integration, enhancing sound quality for creators.

  • Dolby On: Refined design and user experience for award-winning music recording and livestream app.

Digitas

Collaborated with UX team to design innovative digital experiences across various platforms.

  • Gortex: Contributed to the UI/UX e-commerce website redesign, optimizing checkout flow,
increasing checkout rates by 43%, and reducing cart abandonment by 26%.

  • Kellogg’s: Leveraged research to improve Kellogg’s Rewards Program mobile app, 
driving a 21% increase in user enrollment.

Senior Experience Designer
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021 • 1 year
Boston, MA

Drove strategy, scaled UI/UX, visual design, and branding for the entire product.

  • Direction: Led redesign of brand and product website.

  • Usability: Integrated qualitative and quantitative data from user research, beta testing, customer support, and analytics for a data-driven discovery approach.

  • Launch: Shipped product from concept in 6 months.

Lead Product Designer
May 2019 - Nov 2020 • 2 years
San Francisco, CA

Roam Robotics

Led product design initiatives at a fast-growing startup.

  • Insights: Identified and assessed market, business, and partnership opportunities.

  • Design: Created intuitive and visually compelling designs and prototypes, driving a greater UX.

  • Design System: Developed brand style guide and design system.

Lead Product Designer
Mar 2017 - May 2019 • 2.5 years
Oakland, CA

Conductor

Crafted visual design concepts for product and mobile store apps across multiple projects.

  • Usability: Streamlined interactions, improving usability across Apple Store 
products and mobile app.

  • UX Deliverables: Developed wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes.

Senior Art Director
Jun 2014 - Jun 2015 • 1 year
Cupertino, CA

Apple

4 years
San Francisco, CA


Associate Creative Director
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016 • 1.5 years

Senior Art Director
Jan 2013 - Jun 2015 • 2.5 years

Epsilon

Collaborated with UX team to create innovative digital experiences for leading brands and 
enterprises, spanning multiple platforms and emerging technologies.

  • Leadership: Managed team of 7 talented designers, guiding professional growth and skill development.

  • New Business: Led design team to secure new business by winning "pitch work" for Delta Airlines, 
Wells Fargo, American Express, Cooley Law, Hitachi, Service Now, and JCPenney.

  • Delta Airlines: Oversaw award-winning website redesign, branding, and marketing initiatives for Delta's employee reward program, "Uplift,” resulting in 2x enrollment, 10x card acquisition, and $6B in revenue growth following the program's relaunch in 2015.

Collaborated with UX team to create innovative digital experiences for leading brands and 
enterprises, spanning multiple platforms and emerging technologies.

  • Insights: Identified and assessed market, business, and partnership opportunities.

  • Design: Created intuitive and visually compelling designs and prototypes, driving a greater UX.

  • Design System: Developed brand style guide and design system.

Senior Art Director
Jun 2011 - Jan 2013 • 1.5 years
Palo Alto, CA

IDEO

Certifications

+ Education

2025 – Certification, UX Design
UX Design Institute
Dublin, IRL

2021 – Certification, Product Design
Thinkful
San Francisco, CA

2000 – Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Design
Minor in Sociology
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

Awards

2000 – Student Addy Award, 1st Place Editorial Design

2000 – ESPRIT Design Publication

2000 – Student Honors Show

1999 – Student Honors Show

1998 – Student Honors Show

Skills

(UX) User Experience Design
Accessibility
Business Analysis
Engineering Specs
Human-Centered Design
Information Architecture
Journey Mapping
Marketing Research
Personas + User Flows
Product Audit
Product Strategy
Product Strategy + Discovery
Site Mapping
Storyboarding
Usability Testing
User Flows
User Research & Analysis
UX Writing

UX + Research Methods

(UI) User Interface Design
App Design
Branding + Identity Systems
Component Libraries
Design Direction
Design Systems
Illustration
Interaction Design
Pattern Libraries
Photography
Prototyping
Sketching
Social Media
Style Guides
Visual Design
Wireframing

Design Methods

Tools

AI Tools
Adobe Suite
Canva
Figma + Figma Jam
Framer
Sketch
Shopify
Squarespace
Webflow

Design Applications

Project Management + Collaboration

Asana
Confluence
Google Suite
JIRA
Miro
Notion
Slack
Storybook
Zeroheight

User Testing + Analytics

Full Story
Google Analytics
Hotjar
Maze
User Testing
User Zoom

Awards + Achievements

2023 – DX Innovation, DevPortal Awards
Nominated for ”Best New DX Innovation”

Dolby Laboratories

2023 – Onboarding Experience, DevPortal Awards
Nominated for “Best Onboarding Experience”
Dolby Laboratories

2023 – Live Streaming, Readers’ Choice Awards
Finalist 
“Live Streaming Services”
Dolby Laboratories

2022 – Live Streaming, API Word
“Best in Media APIs”
Dolby Laboratories

2016 – Uplift, Delta Airlines, WMA
Outstanding Achievement Award “Best in Class Website”
Epsilon

2016 – Uplift, Delta Airlines, Horizon Interactive Award
“Gold Winner"
Epsilon

2015 – ProSight, IMA
Outstanding Achievement Award “Best Mobile App”
Epsilon

2014 – Teachability, WMA
“Outstanding Website”
Epsilon

Agencies
+ Brands

Apple
Blast Radius
Digitas
Dolby
Epsilon
IDEO
Organic
Solution Set
The Buddy Group
Questus

Design Agencies

Adobe
American Airlines
American Express
Amgen
Apple
Astral Shoes
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Bank of America
Blue Shield of California
Blue Trails + Oceanic Scales
Celebrity Cruises
Conductor Tech
Cooley Law
Delta Airlines
Dreyer's Ice Cream
Duke University
Estee Lauder
Flowerhouse Cannabis
Flylow Gear
Glissade Snowboards
Gore-Tex
Hitachi Data Systems
Horizon Organic
Jamba Juice
JCPenney
Kelley Blue Book
Kelloggs
LeapFrog
LG Electronics
Lorien Powers Jewelry
Macy's
Medicine Box
PayPal
Ring Central
Roam Robotics
SAP
Service now
Sweet Protection
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
The Economist
UBS
United Airlines
Victoria's Secret
Virgin Airlines
Vizio
VMware Software
Wells Fargo Bank
Zinio Books

Brands

Product Design • UI/UX • Interaction Design • Human Centered Designer • Leadership + Team Management • Design Direction • Design Strategy

Product Design • UI/UX • Interaction Design • Human Centered Designer • Leadership + Team Management • Design Direction • Design Strategy

Capabilities

  • (UX) User Experience Design

  • Accessibility

  • Business Analysis

  • Engineering Specs

  • Human-Centered Design

  • Information Architecture

  • Journey Mapping

  • Marketing Research

  • Personas + User Flows

  • Product Audit

  • Product Strategy

  • Product Strategy + Discovery

  • Site Mapping

  • Storyboarding

  • Usability Testing

  • User Flows

  • User Research & Analysis

  • UX Writing

01

UX + Research Methods


02

  • (UI) User Interface Design

  • Design Direction

  • Visual Design

  • Design Systems

  • Component Libraries

  • Application Platforms

  • Mobile App Design

  • Responsive design

  • Social Media

Design Methods


03

  • Brand Strategy

  • Brand Style Guides

  • Editorial Design

  • Event Branding

  • Identity

  • Identity Systems

  • Illustration

  • Logo Design

  • Product Packaging

  • Sketching

  • Typography

Branding + Identity


04

  • Agile and Iterative Design Processes

  • Competitor Analysis

  • Design and Product Strategy

  • KPIs and Metrics Alignment

  • Market Research

  • Problem-Solving and Innovation

  • Roadmapping and Prioritization

  • Trend Analysis

Strategy


05

  • Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion

  • Mentorship and Team Development

  • Positive Relationships

  • Stakeholder Collaboration and Alignment

  • Team Collaboration

Leadership + Team Management

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