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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Orlando, Fl, Us

Design systems, in support of Google Payments UX team.

West Hollywood, California, Us

- Led design efforts for Nitro Design System, enhancing the Pluto TV interface across Smart TV devices, mobile, tablet, and web platforms.- Established a design token framework within our Figma UI kit and code component libraries to streamline collaboration between design and engineering teams.- Conducted interactive design token workshops for designers, engineers, and stakeholders to facilitate comprehension and practical application of design tokens in projects.

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Designed components for the Magnetic Design System, focusing on end-to-end design and documentation.- Developed a sophisticated tab navigation system used by designers to prototype their projects.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Led design efforts and contributed to the Roxbury Design System, guiding its direction and providing support to multiple teams at City National Bank for product development.- Conducted research on internal products to identify ways to enhance designer and engineer efficiency through the design system.- Enhanced the color system documentation with an emphasis on accessibility to ensure inclusivity for all users.

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

- Led and contributed to the Ignite Design System for the Ignite application suite, overseeing and supporting the system's direction and processes.- Developed design tokens, patterns, components, (Angular) front-end production code, and documentation for the design system's UI kit, component library, and Storybook to boost designer and engineer productivity in developing the Ignite application.- Established design and coding best practices for product design and engineering teams to drive design scalability and increase velocity for business initiatives.- Introduced a new color system with expanded hue variations for flexible pairings that align with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility contrast standards.- Implemented a design token system to enhance support for the component library and applications.- Devised methodologies for automating front-end component packaging to improve efficiency.

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

- Converted the Ignite Design System Sketch UI kit to a Figma library UI kit and assisted new Figma designers in transitioning from Sketch to Figma.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Established Boulevard's design system, BLVD UI, which consisted of a Figma UI kit, React component library, and comprehensive design and technical documentation.- Implemented a design systems-driven design and development integration process.- Crafted a documentation website to offer guidance and examples on leveraging Boulevard's APIs.- Introduced a design token system compatible with CSS and Javascript.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Led the transformation of a challenging front-end codebase burdened with technical debt. Established a robust framework featuring reusable and scalable components developed in Angular, Sass, and Bootstrap, enhancing our code productivity and scalability.

New York, Ny, Us

Oversaw product design for the publisher-focused analytics dashboard at Taboola, Taboola Newsroom. Collaborated with editorial teams from reputable publications like Oath/AOL, NBC, and New York Daily News to provide real-time actionable data, performance insights, metrics, and recommendations on their articles.

Playa Vista, California, Us

- Designed and launched Fullscreen's video platform bringing original Fullscreen and licensed content catering to young adults.- Redesigned Fullscreen Go from the ground up, a semi-automated online application that allows YouTube creators to apply and formally partner with Fullscreen in minutes.

Playa Vista, California, Us

- Led efforts on Fullscreen's Ruby on Rails component library and style guide for their web-based products including Creator Platform and Fullscreen video platform.- Bridged efforts between product design and engineering teams as a liaison to help bridge communication and collaboration.

Playa Vista, California, Us

Defined, designed, and built Fullscreen's internal tools utilized to manage content creators and contracts.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

- Oversaw UX/UI design efforts for a high-traffic and multi-faceted e-commerce website, Goldstar.com.- Refactored the front-end code using modern front-end practices, meeting our success criteria by decreasing loading times on virtually all pages with various front-end and back-end optimizations.

Designed textPlus texting app for iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices.

Portland, Oregon, Us

- Lead UX/UI designer in a Ruby on Rails web development shop, working on medium-to-large web projects for clients such as Portland Monthly, Contiki, and AlphaClone.- Conceptualized and designed a publishing content management system for Portland Monthly Magazine's editorial staff following their established editorial process.- Designed and implemented the back-end administration tool for Contiki's trip management and itinerary system.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Managed graphic design efforts and content for individual golf courses listed on GolfNow.com, a last-minute tee time reservation service.

In charge of various web design tasks such as designing brochure-style websites, optimizing websites for search engines, and creating marketing emails.

Digital Media (Interactive Media)

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), General Studies