Hope my passion for UX/UX & Design Strategy can help your team.

Skills

• Strategic leadership at different stages of the design process: from discovery to delivery
• Design Thinking & Service Design
• Experience doing user research to inform digital strategy and roadmaps
• Collaboration to help define and align KPIs & OKRs
• Product, Tech & Design collaboration
• Experience building large scale digital products
• Leadership in translating technical requirements, business logic & customer value into UX solutions
• Experience working in a regulated environment
• Creating efficiencies for UX within agile process
• Working knowledge of Figma, Adobe CS, CSS, HTML, Sketch, InVision, Flinto

Experience

Deloitte | Senior UX/UI Design Consultant
3.2020 - present
• Lead UX research, UI design and user testing for supply chain management web based solution
• Collaborate with Product & Tech Leads to establish product strategy, requirements and timelines
• Lead Service Design works and User Testing sessions to ensure desirability and viability of the product
• Collaborate with Product Leads to create marketing materials

Capital One | Principal UX/UI Designer / Design Strategist
5.2015 - 3.2020
• Contributed to UX/UI for award winning large scale service platform on web & native for over 140 million Users
• Lead UX Strategy: Design Thinking workshops & brainstorming sessions
• Facilitated collaboration with Product Managers, Data Analysts, Designers & Tech Leads
• Provided UI/UX for 20+ features
• Supported and mentored 17+ Designers to co-create features on Capital One Financial platform
• Planned, created and documented UI libraries, design patterns & buildbook components, user flows, and prototypes

The Washington Post | Creative Director at Digital Innovations
11.2014 - 4.2015
• Lead a small team of Designers 
• Established timelines, design process and transparency to facilitate the creation of templates that support unique content

USA Today | Gannett Digital | Principal UX Designer
9.2010 - 11.2014 
• Collaborated to redesign USA Today website redesign on native & web
• Provided mentorship to Designers and Vendors
• Worked closely with Product Managers to help establish a solid strategy

ReVerb Networks Inc | Senior UX Designer
12.2009 - 9.2010
• Provided UX/UI & front end for an online Analyst tool
• Collaborated with Engineers & Senior Managers to solve complex information and data visualization problems

AOL | Lead UX Designer
11.2006 - 12.2009
• Provided UI for external consumer facing, large scale news web portals
• Collaborated with web engineers to establish timelines, ensure quality, 508 compliance and SEO standards

Education

GW / The Corcoran School of Art and Design: BFA in Interaction Design
Interaction Design Foundation: UX Management: Strategy and Tactics, Design Thinking & Service Design
Duarte: Communication Strategy
AOL U: Agile Product Development
Maryland College of Art and Design | AFA Visual Communications