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United States

Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Helping to grow the official Firefox Design System, Acorn.Specializing in documentation, curation, advocacy, and education.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

As the Beaker Principal, I directed the overall vision, strategy, and roadmap. Additionally; - Created, organized, and maintained the Figma libraries.- Wrote documentation and guidance for the libraries, system governance and process work.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to generate buy-in.- Advocated for Beaker to increase awareness, adoption, and invoke excitement.- Provided consultation to product teams to guide implementation and integration of Beaker.- Presented to stakeholders to advance understanding of Beaker and its benefits across the organization.- Worked with adjacent design groups from Brand and Marketing to ensure brand cohesion and organization-wide consistency with any print and digital initiatives.In addition to my work on Beaker, I provided mentorship for other designers and developers; design consultation on ecommerce projects for the parent organization RiteAid; and championed design best practices and processes across the organization with the intention to improve the design team’s maturity and practice organization-wide.

Memphis, Tn, Us

As the Nitro Principal, I defined the vision, approaches and roadmap for the system. Additionally; - Coordinated, directed, maintained and curated Figma UI libraries.- Wrote the documentation and guidance for the libraries, system governance and process work.- Collaborated with cross-functional and third-party teams to generate buy-in.- Advocated for Nitro to increase awareness, adoption, and invoke excitement.- Provided consultation to internal product pods to guide implementation and integration of Nitro.- Presented to stakeholders to advance understanding of Nitro and its benefits across the enterprise.- Presented to the entire ecommerce org to establish and increase understanding of Nitro.- Worked with adjacent design groups from Brand and Marketing to increase brand cohesion and company wide consistency with any print and digital initiatives.- Provided ROI projections for implementation of Nitro across products, brands, and teams.- Worked closely with a dedicated development team to translate Nitro's Figma components into a reusable and theme-able React library.In addition to my work on Nitro, I managed the mobile app design team; consulted as a floating designer across UX and marketing design initiatives; mentored and coached senior and junior team members with the goal to increase their overall knowledge and skill sets; and promoted design best practices and processes across the enterprise with the intention to improve the design maturity enterprise-wide.

New York, Ny, Us

Helped 10 UX/UI students navigate their courses and projects from orientation through graduation; continued mentorship and coaching during job search for 4 students; conducted mock interviews, and portfolio reviews for all mentees, and other students.

As the Katana Principal, I drove the system’s vision, process and roadmap. Additionally;- Created and maintained visual design guidance. - Coded and maintained UI (HTML/CSS) libraries.- Wrote the documentation and guidance for the libraries, system governance and process work.- Collaborated with internal PHP engineers and external plugin teams to generate Katana buy-in.- Advocated for Katana to increase adoption and excitement across external teams.- Provided consultation to internal and external teams to guide implementation and integration of Katana, to achieve higher cohesion across products and third-party add-ons.- Presented to internal and external teams to advance understanding of Katana.- Maintained brand cohesion and company-wide consistency with any print and digital initiatives.- Worked closely with a dedicated PHP development team to translate Katana's HTML/CSS libraries into our product and website architecture.In addition to my work on Katana, I was responsible for all design outcomes across a variety of disciplines from print to digital; as the product owner for the flagship product ExpressionEngine CMS I helped improve our release schedule from once every 5 years, to a 15 to 30 day cycle, resulting in over 154 releases from 2014–2019; presented several UX/UI focused talks at conferences.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Designer for seven distinct development teams in the Books Technology organization; directed design and front-end development projects for Shelfari, Author Central, @author, and Kindle; created and organized hiring initiatives to grow the design team; offered office hours to provide mentoring, collaboration, and knowledge share for engineers and designers.

Created, developed, and deployed UX, UI, and Front-end solutions for our product. Provided solutions for tough problems like campaign efficiency, flexibility, and control.

Implemented, documented, and managed a design and front-end framework, which allowed the team to decrease time to launch for all website projects; directed design and development for 15+ client projects from discovery through launch; created and implemented marketing and email design and content for 20+ clients; performed code and design reviews for all design and development projects produced from 2008–2010.

Designed and developed high end, high impact web-sites for a wide range of clientele.

Designed and developed the UI, UX, and Front-end for sweepery.com and our product.

Founded and served as Principal designer and developer; produced high-quality designs and code for a large variety of projects and products for 100+ clients; served as an in-house design team for start-ups like Invision Power Services (Director of Custom Services), Sweepery (Creative Director), and Involver (Principal Designer).

Utrecht, Nl

Designed and developed the UI, UX, and Front-end for Involver.com and our product.

Lynchburg, Va, Us

Managed day-to-day operations for the custom services department. Designed and developed custom plug-ins and themes for clients. Designed and developed default theme for Invision Power Board.