I've been working in UX and Product Design for seven years. Prior to that, I worked in account management roles at design agencies. I recently completed my M.A. in Design Systems at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Senior Product Designer (Remote)
GitLab aims to be the single DevSecOps tool for the entire product development lifecycle.
Tasks
As Product Designer for the Monitor:Health group, have helped to introduce the error tracking, alert and incident management features to GitLab. Have also worked on the tool's metric and log features.
Skills/Tools
Figma, Sketch, Marvel, Design Facilitation, Git.
Senior UX Designer (Emeryville & Portland)
MedeAnalytics creates analytics software for hospitals and insurance providers.
Tasks
Defining personas, whiteboarding new product ideas, completing wireframes, coding prototypes, running user tests & updating products based on user feedback.
Skills/Tools
Balsamiq, Sketch, Adobe Suite, Invision, Marvel, WebFlow, WordPress and HTML/CSS.
Project Manager (San Francisco)
Elefint Designs specializes in great designs for good causes.
Tasks
Managing budgets, projects, schedules and client communications for website, mobile and interactive infographic projects.
Skills/Tools
Project, Budget and Timeline Management; Client Communications; GSD.
Visual Brand Manager (San Francisco)
Plum District was a daily deals site targeting the 'mom' demographic.
Tasks
Rolling out the Plum District brand by defining its image guidelines, establishing a process for purchasing and storing imagery, and approving all email images.
Skills/Tools
Photoshop, Photo Library Management, Diplomacy.
Account Executive (London)
Thoburns is a communications consultancy that provides advertising & design services for large corporate clients.
Tasks
Project managing print production for gold mining company Petropavlovsk’s Annual Report suite and steel company ArcelorMittal’s internal magazine, boldspirit (99,000 print run; 6 language versions; 2008 European Excellence Award finalist and a CiB Award winner for ‘Best Internal Magazine’).
Skills/Tools
Project Management, Account Management, Print Production.
2014 Intermediate Graphic Design & Photoshop Essentials, PNCA
2014 Design Studio 1 & Adobe Illustrator, UC Berkeley Extension
2013 Front End Web Development, General Assembly
2012 UX Design, General Assembly
2017-2019 M.A. Design Systems, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2004-2005 M.A. Philosophy, King’s College London
1998-2002 B.A. English, Carleton College (Distinction, magna cum laude)