• Led the design of in-vehicle applications, including radio, media, third-party, SiriusXM, and front passenger apps across multiple platforms such as infotainment displays, steering wheels, clusters, rear passenger displays, and heads-up displays, impacting millions of users in GM vehicles.• Collaborated with major partners including Google, LG, Bose, Harman, SiriusXM, and Spotify to develop new features from concept to launch.• Led change requests, feature enhancements, and ensured partner compliance with design standards and safety requirements.• Created high-fidelity prototypes, user flows, wireframes, and final graphics for software implementation in an Agile environment.• Worked closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, UX researchers, and human factors engineers to balance user needs, technical constraints, and business objectives.• Contributed to and maintained design systems to ensure consistency across product designs.• Facilitated design reviews and presentations with leadership, ensuring final designs met business goals and user requirements.• Validated designs through in-vehicle and bench reviews, ensuring adherence to high safety standards and usability principles.

• Collaborated in an agile development environment with product managers, designers, data analysts, and engineers on a web-based tool created to improve the ideation and analysis of publicly available data• Assisted with product strategy, product management, development planning, and product launching• Translated high-level requirements into wireframes and prototypes for mobile and desktop designs• Created a design system for the 311 platform• Conducted design research and usability testing to optimize current and future product features• Assisted in making the product ADA compliant based on WCAG 2.1 guidelines• Facilitated design thinking sessions virtually with over 50 people

Worked with clients in the beauty, wellness, and retail industries creating, redesigning, and launching their responsive websites. Work included conducting user research, developing prototypes and mockups, creating logos and style guides, and improving the overall digital experience while using design tools like Figma, Adobe XD, Illustrator, and Photoshop to make digital assets.

• Worked with engineers and designers to develop a social network to connect screenwriters, producers, actors, property managers, and investors to create new film productions • Collaborated with designers in affinity and site mapping sessions to ideate new features and flows • Designed medium and high-fidelity wireframes using material design components and guidelines • Created and prototyped new onboarding and marketplace flows that allowed users to rent and reserve property

ProjectsPOC Haus – Responsive Web App • Worked in Agile environment with developers to create a responsive web minimum viable product • Created proto-personas to define target users • Developed user flows and medium fidelity wireframes for desktop and mobile displays • Created and iterated high-fidelity wireframes using imagery, photography, typography, and iconography The La Brea Tar Pits Museum - Native App • Conducted a contextual inquiry to observe how individuals experience and interact within the museum • Synthesized research data with affinity mapping, used key insights to develop a persona and prioritize features • Developed and conducted usability tests on paper prototyped designs • Tested medium-fidelity wireframes and iterated on design for improved usability • Developed a high-fidelity mobile prototype to demonstrate UI elements and vision for the product

• Monitored and communicated the status of projects to management, City staff, granting agencies, and stakeholders, keeping them abreast to project delays and accomplishments• Coordinated the development of short and long term planning documents, providing clear fiscal policy direction• Acted as the intermediary between the City and outside agencies to cultivate and maintain collaborative projects• Provided leadership to senior staff, overseeing a $1.3 billion dollar grant and capital program, ensuring the delivery of capital projects• Applied, accepted, monitored, and audited Federal and State grant funding, meeting all grantor requirements

• Forecasted, monitored, and developed revenue and expense projections for the City's largest revenue sources to assess the City’s economic health and fiscal performance • Monitored and developed City departments’ capital and operating budgets to ensure fiscal responsibility • Coordinated and instructed department fiscal processes across 30 departments • Provided management and executive team with presentations and analysis on special fiscal and budgetary issues

• Provided non-partisan legal and fiscal impact analysis on proposed legislation to policy makers and legislative staff to inform their decisions and constituents• Developed and presented to state senators and representatives fiscal policy recommendations for the State’s $207 billion dollar biennial budget• Collaborated with State agency CFOs and Executive Directors in addressing fiscal policy and budgetary oversight• Acted as lead liaison between the agency and the Senate while researching, analyzing, and negotiating the adoption of $1.3 billion in capital project funding

• Worked on the development of the Chambers education policy to improve college enrollment outcomes to increase the education and skills of the metro area’s workforce to attract new companies to the region• Analyzed county and city level data to asses the effectiveness and amount of workforce development funds in the Metro Area• Aided in the Chamber’s educational efforts and outreach to increase the amount of students applying for college and financial aid

• Created the City’s first budget highlights document to provide increased awareness and transparency of the City’s budget practices• Produced quantitative analysis on the City’s citizen survey, analyzing long term trends on available data to design financial recommendations based on customer satisfaction and need• Researched and analyzed budgetary policies and best practices, informing the City’s CFO on the benefits and disadvantages of biennial versus annual budgeting