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Laguna Niguel, Ca, Us

Orange County, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Leading product design at Crexi, the fastest-growing CRE marketplace and most advanced platform in the commercial real estate industry. In my first six months:- Led the Product & Design team in a Design Sprint that resulted in key strategic initiatives for the new road map.- Updated the design system to more holistically incorporate new web components and our native iOS and Android Apps.- Bridged cross-collaborative relationships with stakeholders in Branding & Marketing to create needed cohesion between Product & Branding.- For the first time in company history, led two winning teams in the annual hackathon.- Guided the design of a break-through technology that was presented to the board of directors and consequently recieved special investment.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Lead and managed Design & Creative in service to all teams and departments, ensuring the highest quality brand and customer experience from advertising and marketing, to the product itself (B2B SaaS) and user success journeys, achieving a 3X increase in GMV revenue, 10X increase in user activity, and 50% decrease in customer churn.

Irvine, Ca, Us

- Lead dedicated designers across multiple disciplines and categories- Managed design processes to ensure timely delivery of designs. - Created and managed policies and procedures for design requests and fulfillment. - Consistently maintained and mentored best practices throughout design process.- Established and oversaw creation of a design system to ensure consistency across customer touch-points. - Implemented the design system in a new product, created from the ground up. - Supervised design disciplines to increase the quality of design output.- Served as liaison between Design, Engineering, Sales and Executives.- As an embedded member of the Product team, contributed to the scope and definition of high-impact product initiatives.- Refined original branding and created a design system, supporting both a $5M A Round and $20M B Round raises.- Created and lead multiple company initiatives: - Design systems - Creation of a sophisticated product taxonomy - Created and led several company-wide committees focused on cross-disciplinary growth and education.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Original designer on the team, designed influencer partnership app for Shopify merchants with a design system based in MaterialUI, gaining over 30,000 customers in under 2 years. Achieved a $5M A Round raise.

Culver City , Ca , Us

Working directly with the owners, partners and executives of the parent company, Topson Downs (private-label manufacturer), I crafted a business plan to bring something new to the women's fashion eCommerce industry. We created AFRM to stand for affirmation of one's self and one's style. Within its first year, AFRM has been worn by the celebrities such as Kendall Jenner, covered in publications including Vogue and Glamour, and become one of Nordstrom's best-selling new brands.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Worked with team on the first significant update to the site aesthetic in five years. Led various blue sky projects through the entire UX process, starting with user research through to prototypes and created promotional/demonstration videos for company All Hands events and presentations for Merchandising executives to utilize with vendor partners. Facilitated Design Sprints with Merchandising teams to develop new site features that supported their core business efforts and met their customer’s and vendor’s needs in unique ways.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Worked directly with Research and Analytics teams to iteratively improve zappos.com, including header, navigation, search faceting and product pages in an environment of extreme change as the Engineering team converted all home-grown ecomm systems to Amazon-built products. Was called on by Merchandising to rebrand Zappos Couture to Zappos Luxury. Revamped the site including homepage sections and product page structure, conducting research with luxury brand vendor partners to determine a new approach to the PDP.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Designed updates in an agile environment to mobile apps: iPhone and iPad, and Android phone and tablet. Work was frequently featured in media such as CNET and Mashable, culminating in collaboration with Apple and Google. Also spearheaded the creation of new Zappos apps for Windows Phone & Tablet, securing funding for development from Microsoft, and was featured at 2014 Microsoft BUILD event.

Leeds, Al, Us

As the sole designer, created end-to-end SaaS products for inventory management, sales management, a Twitter management tool, financial payments tool, a complete rebrand and overhaul of an eCommerce brand, and various mobile sites.

Oregon City, Oregon, Us

Commercial upholstery service company with three branches serving six states, our customers include,- 24 Hour Fitness- LA Fitness- Nike- Multnomah Athletic Club- Denver Athletic Club- Romano's Macaroni Grill- Azteca Restaurants- California Pizza Kitchen- Red Lobster- Providence Medical Systems- Adventist Medical Clinics- Portland VA Hospital- OHSU March Wellness

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Organizational Communication, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy