Experience
Lead Experience Designer, Amor Design System
Signet Jewelers, 2024 – Present
- Leading the shifting toward a scalable semantic token naming scheme.
- Current member of team culture.
Senior Experience Designer, Amor Design System
Signet Jewelers, 2021 – 2024
- Design lead on building out the Amor Design System. Amor is successfully used to power iterative redesigns of the commerce experience and store associate tools — creating consistency, efficiency, and a foundational baseline to rectify accessibility issues.
- Built and maintained the design system documentation by documenting and expanding on its foundational elements, components, and design patterns.
- Responsible for supporting multiple brands under the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry.
- Collaborate with UX designers, researchers, content writers, strategists, product owners, and engineers.
- Design lead for accessibility-related inquiries.
- Participate in user research, working alongside our UX research partners, to gain insights into customer needs, pain points, and behavior patterns.
- Assumed additional responsibility for product feature development; creating interactive prototypes and design specifications to clearly convey design concepts and interactions to development teams.
- Founding member of team culture, initiating instances for team engagement and wellness.
UI & UX Tutor
CareerFoundry, 2021 – Present
- Instructing aspiring UI and UX designers in a comprehensive curriculum covering design thinking, UX research methods, information architecture, cross-platform optimization, persona creation, design patterns, wireframing, prototyping, design systems, responsive design, accessibility principles, collaborative design processes, documentation practices, and portfolio refinement.
Senior Visual Designer
College Board, 2019 — 2021
- Led the design of College Board’s first digital event, overseeing concept development, crafting visual assets for diverse channels, and providing leadership to the design team.
- Served as the visual lead for a website re-platforming initiative involving six distinct properties.
- Collaborated closely with program leads, design teams, and development teams to craft seamless experiences across different digital platforms.
- Managed the establishment of branding and standards for a new international corporate office.
Visual Designer
College Board, 2013 — 2019
- Spearheaded the refresh and implementation of company presentation standards.
- Collaborated with content, communications, marketing, and web production teams across various media platforms including web, digital, print, environmental, and video.
- Provided art direction and visual designs for web pages, marketing collateral, and informational materials.
- Designed and led cohesive experiences for 14 annual College Board events.
- Proficient in mobile-responsive media formats and well-versed in web accessibility principles.
UI Designer
Vuwable, 2018
- Refined the user experience and user interface for their principal website.
Associate Designer
Van Gennep Design, 2012 — 2013
- Worked with nonprofit organizations and businesses to find solutions for their creative needs. Clients included Apollo Theater, The Noguchi Museum, and Planned Parenthood of New York City
Designer
CityPockets, 2011
- Created the user interface for their debut mobile app and worked alongside the development team to deliver assets for production.
Education
Pratt Institute, M.S. in Communications Design
The City College of New York, B.A. in Electronic Design and Multimedia
Continuous Learning
Leadership Academy, Rare with Google
- Built a deeper understanding of leadership through values, purpose, behaviors, resilience, and connection.
UX Design, General Assembly
- Researched, prototyped, and wireframed design solutions. Put together a full set of UX documentation for a digital product.
Improv and Musical Improv, Magnet Theater
- Improved listening skills and honed on-the-spot speaking skills. Gained knowledge in setting scenes, character building, storytelling, directing attention through asking questions and breaking into song.
Dale Carnegie Course, Dale Carnegie
- Developed skills in communicating logically and clearly while creating engaging stories and presentations.
Full-Stack Web Development Intensive, City Tech
- Increased knowledge in HTML/CSS and designing for the web. Created personas and wireframes; coded prototype. Gained better understanding of Bash, Git, MySQL, Javascript, and PHP.