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Miami, Fl, Us

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for managing UX/UI design for the Hyphen product team, driving standards across all digital product interfaces and storytelling/presentation assets. Drive collaborative design process engaging with product team leaders and developers, taking ideas from ideation all the way through implementation.Ensure that brand visual standards are translated into product designs, digital components, and custom user interfaces.I also support our Marketing and Client Success teams, helping ensure our brand messaging and visual brand identity are carried through in our visual marketing assets and pitch decks. Actively participate in live pitch demos to increase product adoption and brand awareness for audiences that include hospital executives, healthcare practitioners and policymakers.

Hartford, Ct, Us

Responsible for managing the UX/UI process for the SMC product team, driving standards across all digital product interfaces and storytelling/presentation assets. Ensure that brand visual standards are translated into product designs, digital components, and custom user interfaces. Actively participate in live pitch demos to increase product adoption and brand awareness for audiences that include hospital executives, healthcare practitioners and policymakers. Drive collaborative design process, taking ideas from ideation all the way through implementation. Collaboratively engage with product team leaders and developers.

Hartford, Ct, Us

Lead user experience and user interface design efforts for the new SMC product team. Facilitated design sessions, produced mockups, wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes for all user-facing applications. Participated in 30+ live prototype demonstrations for more than 13 New York City-based hospitals and delivery systems. Established a design process and ensured consistency across design efforts by developing a design system and component library. Worked directly with executive leaders, product teams, and developers from design through implementation.

Hartford, Ct, Us

As a senior-level consultant, I worked directly with clients in the healthcare and health insurance fields on business process and technology solutions projects. Our team recently completed a major system conversion project for the Appeals & Grievances department at a New York City-based non-profit insurance company. I acted as lead coordinator of development, testing, and deployment of over 350 individual document templates, working cross-functionally with the A&G business team, developers, and vendor partners. All templates were delivered 100% on-time, along with supporting documentation to ensure knowledge transfer.

Hartford, Ct, Us

As a business consultant, I worked as an individual contributor at a New York City-based non-profit insurance company, coordinating between the Enrollment & Billing (E&B) department and multiple enterprise-wide correspondence transformation projects. This role required management of multiple workstreams, including: (1) creating an inventory and documenting requirements for all E&B correspondence in support of a major enrollment system enhancement project; (2) documenting mail intake procedures, designing new processes, identifying resources, and supporting trainings as part of an enterprise mail digitization project; (3) documenting processes and supporting management of correspondence on legacy systems.

Hartford, Ct, Us

As a business analyst, I worked on multiple projects for various clients including:(1) Serving as a project manager responsible for tracking and coordinating on-time deliverable submission for over 40 Compliance and Regulatory audits across multiple departments, including Claims, Enrollment & Billing, and Member Services;(2) Documenting user stories, building an interface matrix, and interviewing cross-organizational stakeholders at New York City-based nonprofit insurance company, to inform a project roadmap and UX/UI design of a member-facing insurance mobile application;(3) Designing wireframes for online insurance broker and member portal for a Springfield, Massachusetts-based insurance company to support a brand-new line of voluntary insurance products; (4) Conducting research and providing preliminary designs of an application to facilitate the sharing of sensitive patient data covered under 42 CFR Part 2 for an ACO in Western Massachusetts;(5) Assisting over 30 individual provider practices within one of Connecticut’s largest hospital networks with timely completion and submission of Security Risk Assessments (SRA), and analysis of interoperability performance measures, as a component of meeting CMS Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requirements, both in 2017 and 2018;(6) Testing enhancements for an insurance and medical benefit payment system developed by SMC Partners and utilized by a third-party administrator (TPA) to serve clients enrolled in a state Ryan White HIV/AIDS drug assistance program.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

As legislative aide, I reported directly to Senator Mae Flexer (Windham, CT) and managed her Capitol office in Hartford. I advocated for and advanced the Senator’s legislative agenda, managing submission and monitoring of the Senator’s bills, drafting testimony, organizing advocates and grassroots supporters. I managed intake of all official requests to the Senator’s office, including requests from the executive branch, other elected officials, state agencies, media, industry professionals, and government affairs representatives. I worked with the Senator’s constituents, local organizations, and businesses who sought assistance from federal, state, and local agencies.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

As constituent services aide, I Implemented outreach plans for state Senators, assisted with drafting district mailings, and organized in-district events. Additionally, I monitored daily legislative activity—including committee meetings, public hearings, and Senate debates—and managed the Senate redistricting database, and the Senate research database of bills and issues.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

As legislative coordinator, I supported the government relations team, tracking legislation and coordinating daily coverage of meetings and events at the State Capitol. I also assisted with outreach to legislators on behalf of lobbyists and clients, conducted research and analysis of issues and statutes, and supervised sessional interns.

Bachelor'S, Political Science

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