Work

Acting Lead UX Designer

Leads our external design team by contibuting to high-level strategies, coordinating execution, and mentoring designers to uphold UX standards and best practices
Delivers user-centric design solutions by leveraging responsive design, accessibility, design systems, and ensuring alignment with business and customer needs
Articulates design concepts to leadership and stakeholders through storytelling and using clear rationale
Partners with product managers, developers, and other cross-functional team members to translate insights and requirements into functional designs

Senior UX Designer

Bath & Body Works

January 2022 - Current

Accelerate, a HIMSS Solution

January 2021 - January 2022

Accelerate was a social network for the healthcare industry.

Collaborated with the business, product, development, and the team of UX designers around me to create a valuable platform for users
Conducted research and analyzed user feedback and analytics to create features that users actually needed
Prototyped concepts from ideas to production-ready designs
Effectively communicated my ideas and reasonings on features and areas that I owned
Participated in creating a design system for our application
Advocated for the users and what they needed to succeed

Mindset Consulting

October 2016 - January 2021

Mindset’s focus is using Design Thinking to transform enterprise software.

Co-Facilitated Design Thinking workshops with clients to build delightful experiences for enterprise users
Observed users to learn about their pain points and challenges
Collaborated with users, developers, and business stakeholders to brainstorm and create innovative experiences that would improve time and efficiency of day to day work functions
Designed device-independent applications for enterprise users, based on provided devices and physical needs
Followed SAP Fiori Design Guidelines to ensure all custom applications were consistent with out-of-the-box Fiori apps to create a seamless experience

McCann Worldgroup

November 2015 - October 2016

Optimized General Mills’ core user-facing sites (Pillsbury.com, bettycrocker.com, tablespoon.com, quericavida.com)
Restructured Browse Path architecture and Recipe Landing Pages to create an effortless experience for users
Instructed UX best practices based on research data and user testing
Created detailed and annotated wireframes to the design team and development team
Collaborated with developers and stakeholders to create the best solutions for users
Restructured the information architecture of the core sites to improve user navigation
Partnered with Marketing for ad placement and revenue-builders, while also keeping the user experience in mind

Class of 2014

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Graphic Design

with a study abroad and internship program focused on User Experience