Lead Experience Architect & Design Direction for Enterprise SaaS ProductNorthstar Experience Visions: Spearhead design strategy and execution for cohesive, innovative product experiences across the enterprise solution suite.Go-to-Market Product Design Leadership: Lead experience architect for two new go-to-market products, guiding foundational design decisions and setting the vision for user interaction and engagement.AI Pattern Integration Influence: Oversee the development of AI-driven patterns and use cases, ensuring scalable design decisions that meet evolving customer needs.Component & Behavioral Patterns: Champion the creation of new design components and behavioral patterns to enhance user experience and product usability.Collaboration & Feature Prioritization: Work with product leadership and owners to prioritize features and design requirements, ensuring user experience remains a priority in development.User-Centric Design: Conduct concept and usability testing, create research artifacts, and manage user recruitment to gather insights into customer needs and feedback, collaborating with research teams for actionable insights.Platform Design Evolution: Drive the evolution of the design library, ensuring adaptability while maintaining high standards of visual and interaction design.Delightful User Experiences: Advocate for engaging elements within the product, refining the visual aesthetic and overall user experience.Innovation & Design Exploration: Lead workshops and design thinking sessions to identify innovative solutions that enhance product experiences.Keynote & Customer Engagement: Present at demos and customer sessions, showcasing design innovations and providing insights into user interactions.UI Framework & Interaction Design: Guide design direction through reviews, ensuring the UI framework is intuitive, scalable, and future-proof.

Responsibilities Include:Set the creative direction for major product initiatives.Lead the evolution of the Angie’s List product design language.Create and direct the creation of – concepts, detailed design mockups, visual specifications, and production assets.Ensure high standards of usability, consistency and clarity in design.Set standards and disseminate best practices for tools, processes and trends.Present and “sell” design work to leadership.Work closely with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering and Marketing.Collect and synthesize qualitative and quantitative research to inform and validate design decisions.Mentor other designers and shape team culture.

As a UI/UX Designer, I was responsible for overall style, user flow and brand consistency within our apps. I have experience with mobile and desktop UI, graphic design, front-end development with HTML5 and CSS, and illustration. I have an eye for clean and artful design, while maintaining user-friendly design practices and functionally. I possess superior UI skills and am able to translate high-level requirements into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.​My responsibilities include:Collaboration with Directors, VP's and Engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experienceExecution of all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideasPresent and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholdersConduct user research and evaluate user feedbackEstablish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

My responsibilities include:Collaboration with Directors, VP's and Engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experienceExecution of all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideasPresent and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholdersConduct user research and evaluate user feedbackEstablish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

As a UI/UX Designer, I was responsible for overall style, user flow and brand consistency within our apps. I have experience with mobile and desktop UI, graphic design, front-end development with HTML5 and CSS, and illustration. I have an eye for clean and artful design, while maintaining user-friendly design practices and functionally. I possess superior UI skills and am able to translate high-level requirements into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.​My responsibilities included:Collaboration with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experienceExecution of all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideasPresent and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholdersConduct user research and evaluate user feedbackEstablish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

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Travel Authority is the largest American Express Travel Representative. My responsibilities included, but were not limited to:- Managed and Implemented front-end design and content for all corporate websites, utilizingHTML and CSS- Collaborated with vendors to create marketing content for websites and print campaigns - Conceptualized and presented design solutions for print publications - Illustrated icons, logos and other vector graphics as needed