I'm a UX designer with a background in art and creative direction with a plastic art career. With my prior experience in working directly with clients as their point person and advocate, I'm highly skilled in identifying and understanding problems that others face and creating thoughtfully crafted solutions to solve them. As a UX consultant and strategist I provide guidance and solutions for creating change and using experience design as a way to investigate business problems and help formulate valuable insights that help solve business problems. I am responsible for defining, improving, and documenting processes, UX strategy, discovery through testing and research, training designers, championing the design team, collaborating cross-functionally, and producing high-quality, informed, customer-focused designs. the user.Some of my accomplishments include:• Advocate and promote the design system. Work with designers and developers towards accessibility and ensure reusable and proven patterns.• Improve communications between teams by leading design critiques, sharing progress, failures, and victories.• Push design to the limit and establish friendship, respect and community within the design department.• Train and support designers to improve skills, confidence, growth, experimentation and persuasion for stakeholder acceptance.• Advocate and gain buy-in for resources to scale design as the organization grows, and ensure the design team is set up for success.Art Director and Creative for 15 years and 20 years of advertising experience in both digital and traditional media. Thanks to the great work of the team, I can also say that I am a winner of design, branding and digital awards.