About

Experience & Training

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.

GitLab

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.

MedeAnalytics

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.

Elefint Designs

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.

Plum District

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.

Thoburns

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.

Training

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

Education

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)

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