Resume

Experience

Principal Designer, Design Systems Lead • SageSure • July 2024 - current

  • Evangelize accessibility within the organization while embedding accessibility into the design system at it roots

  • Manage the design system intern program and mentor designers in systematic thinking, accessibility, relationship building and design/engineering best practices

  • Balance and address the needs and priorities of various system consumers, fostering community at every opportunity, resulting in a 233% increase in contributions within 8 months

  • Refactor components and foundations, including deprecation, resulting in a 320% YoY increase in Figma insertions and a .14% detachment rate

  • Shift focus from atomic components to universal patterns, aligning those patterns with high-priority business needs

Principal Designer, Design Systems Lead • Homebase • Dec 2022 - June 2024

  • Align pattern usage across a design team of 13 and 30+ front-end devs

  • Leverage a birds-eye view of multiple products areas to foster collaboration between teams

  • Become a strategic partner between engineering and product management for products on across all stages of the adoption journey, increasing component adoption by 825% and NPS by 17% in 12 months

  • Drive a rebrand within the product, bridging the gap between brand, cross functional product and engineering leads and ICs

  • Partner with teams to up-level accessibility skills in both design and code

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems Lead • Wonolo • May 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Reduced redundancy within silos across product and engineering

  • Cultivated a 75% increase in visual consistency in 6 months

  • Supported the design team through process creation, onboarding and tooling

  • Created components with flexibility that led to < 1% detach rate

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems Lead • Omnicell • Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Created a web-accessible design system with 100% adoption in 3 months

  • Pioneered QA processes with dev teams across multiple timezones

  • Transformed the product design process from a focus on high-fidelity to research-based decision making + low-fidelity UX work

Senior Product Designer • Kunai • May 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Integrated user testing to align with core user goals in the early ideation

  • Managed team of 2 with an overseas client to deliver a prototype in 3 days

  • Reduced call volume by simplifying content + IA for AAA Smart Home

  • Founded a monthly design team meet-up to share ideas and knowledg

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Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts • California College of the Arts

Concentration in printmaking, painting and drawing. Graduated with high-distinction.

Awards

  • Core Value Award - “We are Fountains” • SageSure • 2024 • For ambitious planning and relentless execution, as well as supporting + elevating teammates and coworkers.

  • Primed Award • Omnicell • 2021 • Continued efforts towards design system growth

  • Primed Award • Omnicell • 2021 • Adamant support of design team members, especially during hiring, onboarding and off-boarding

  • Impact Award • Omnicell • 2020 • Leading efforts to establish a web-accessible design system

  • Spot Award • Dell • 2017 • In recognition of user interface design on the Dell Canvas

Skills

  • User experience, User Interface design

  • Various research methods

  • Content Design & Copywriting

  • Information Architecture

  • Design Operations, including: onboarding / off-boarding, facilitating design critiques, process creation, file hygiene, etc.

  • Mentoring

  • Rapid Prototyping

  • Illustration

  • Intermediate CSS/HTML