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• Automated updates and deployments across 42 component repositories using Docker, Bash, and Bitbucket pipelines, saving about 15 hours over an average 6-month period and ensuring the documentation website is always up.
• Established roadmap & vision for internal design system based on feedback collected from project teams. Led knowledge-sharing sessions and worked with teams individually. Led efforts to improve component testing &.
• Migrated to true semantic versioning with automatic enforcement and changelog messaging using SemVersioner, Bash, and Bitbucket pipelines, ensuring consistent versioning standards and basic documentation of changes.
• Isolated and reproduced a core architectural problem with CSS in internal micro-frontend framework, collaborated with the owners to explore fixes, build out a POC and Python script to automate configuration changes.

• Advocated for and implemented improved cross-browser compatibility, responsiveness, and AA accessibility within legacy SCSS-based codebase. Worked with developers to refactor and improve their SCSS skills as part of.
• Collaborated with design and development teams to help define standards and build out a design system, which provided consistent styling for both Sketch design files and a variety of web and mobile applications.
• Built interactive prototypes in React for user research and testing purposes, as well as smaller SCSS-based prototypes to refine animation and other micro-interactions.

• Led design projects from early exploratory research, user interviews, and scope definition to implementation and successful launch, including a three-month redesign of a semi-internal dashboard & reporting portal. Hit.
• Onboarded new designers by helping them set up their development environments and pairing with them to help them learn to work with Rails and our local database configuration.

• Designed and developed features for custom Ruby on Rails ecommerce platform and marketing site. Served as liaison between business stakeholders and developers to lead creation of performant solutions. Coordinated.
• Designed, developed, and deployed conference website (third consecutive year). Worked with marketing to incorporate updated branding on the site, and streamlined the creation process to save time in the future.

• As part of the product design team I was able to dig more into usability testing and prototyping, and continued to grow my visual design, SCSS, and Rails skills by working on our e-commerce site.
• Continued to own the design, development, and deployment of company conference website for a third year, this time with a focus on modularizing the design to reduce time spent on it in the future.
• Maintained our old marketing site, including hotfix deployments, as our new marketing and e-commerce platform was finalized.

• Maintained sole ownership of yearly company conference website (visual design, copywriting, front-end development, and deployment) for a second year, this time focusing on improving CSS structure, using new branding.
• Designed and built marketing and campaign pages, emails, and ad imagery.

• Designed, developed, and deployed company conference website (using Ruby on Rails). Also handled creation and execution of all branding and printed materials for the event.
• Wrote and designed emails, blog posts, video tutorial scripts, customer help articles, and other media content.
• Established voice and tone guidelines as part of our internal style guide.

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• Collect, proof-read and edit submissions
• Responsible for daily posting of submissions

• Designed targeted mail pieces and managed multiple projects, often on short deadlines with a constantly changing workload
• Standardized equipment within design department, increasing efficiency and saving money
• Fixed computer problems
• Trained new designers

• Designed logo, PowerPoint template and related brochure for a new organization, establishing a distinct visual presence.

• Improved web content organization
• Created new content to showcase the department and a unique visual web presence within limitations from the CMS
• Designed additional promotional materials for the department

• Redesigned brochures to work with existing design standards
• Improved readability and organization
• Gained experience designing as a team, collaborating and splitting up tasks as appropriate

• Worked with organization leaders to design an updated and cohesive visual identity