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San Francisco, California, Us

Gig Harbor, Washington, Us

Projects: Contributed and led UX to deliver a private preview of a all-new technology that enables organizations to simulate and solve hugely complex, planet-scale problems using artificial intelligence run in the Cloud and visualized using the latest in Gaming Technology.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Projects: Store Development Resource Center Global Online Catalog and Starbucks Store Design Online ResourceLead UX design supporting the modernization of the Store Development Resource Center, which is a global catalog tool supporting store personnel to locate, design and price out merchandise and construction for stores globally. Starbucks Store Design was developed to communicate best practices around how to design Starbucks stores.

Edmonds, Washington, Us

As the Special Events and Development Associate, I am working as a key team member in support of Cascadia Art Museum’s signature benefit event, which is the 2020 Summer Stars Gala and Auction and five year anniversary. This position serves as a vital project management role, contributing to the success of the gala by keeping records of committee meetings and discussions, tracking and following up on volunteer tasks, and ensuring clarity and follow-through on all procurement and planning activities. This position also supports donor cultivation leading up to the gala, assisting with the planning and execution of engagement events to ensure the thoughtful stewardship of prospective gala attendees. Last of all I am providing assistance with Cascadia’s online customer interface and software for the gala and I report to the Executive Director and worked closely with the Gala Committee.

Projects: Planning and development of the Creative Advantage Arts Festivals for the South Seattle Schools. In addition, developing and implementing communications campaigns through photography and short blog posts on the Office of Arts and Culture social media sites including messages of advocacy of the arts and why arts are important; informational interviews and the results contributed to the learning about the planning process for the report that feeds into getting the grant (Paul G. Allen Family Foundation); and archival documentation process of the arts festivals. As an events coordinator, I contributed to the pilot of regional arts festivals for the Creative Advantage program. This program’s goal is to provide the opportunity to celebrate arts learning taking place in the Seattle Public Schools. In the pilot year there will be three festivals highlighting arts disciplines within the schools participating in the Creative Advantage program. The original idea stemmed from the focus groups from students whom wanted more opportunities to publicly showcase their arts learning.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Projects: Skytap Power Options, Auto-Suspend, VM Settings, and Power ProLead UX design supporting the modernization of traditional applications with cloud-native development and services by shaping and shifting to new patterns, code, branding, and work flows. Identified many opportunities of modernization on the Skytap Cloud application and successfully, partnered with product management and engineering while attracting new customers and decreasing time setting up new environments and updating settings.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Projects: Creation of Roadway, Trips, Speed, and Autonomous Vehicle Historical Analytics, OpenCar and Mobile apps and Real-Time Analytics.Lead UX design for INRIX Analytics, a suite of transportation SAAS applications, by shaping and owning the direction of the product, evangelizing UX with infectious results, coaching and managing assignments for UX designers, and partnering with product management and engineering to identify product opportunities. I contributed to the increased revenue from $3 -$25 million for 2016-2017.

Projects: Creation of MMS, SMS, Push Notification, and Reporting ToolsDeveloped overall UX strategy shaped by KPIs and customer success metrics, and evangelized the strategy to leadership and product teams. Discovered, analyzed, and interpreted results about customer goals and needs and communicated insights to product and program managers. Successfully created MMS, SMS, and Push Notifications and SMS reporting tools as well as an updated marketing website which doubled the user base.www.openmarket.com

Projects: Redesign of T-Mobile, Thompsons WaterSeal, The List (competitor to LinkedIn), and Health AdvocacyCreated the vision for the development, communication and implementation for the user experience for T-Mobile, Thompsons WaterSeal, The List (competitor to LinkedIn), and Health Advocacy by working cross functionally to evaluate, design, build and test the product. Achieved results that exceeded client expectations.

Projects: Redesign of MSDN and TechNetProvided design consultation and acted as an internal consultant by providing a redesign for MSDN and TechNet by working with web development, users, stakeholders, and product managers by creating a world class user interface that supported and reinforced product vision, brand and business objectives.

Projects: Microsoft Homepage Redesign, Microsoft Homepage Holiday Carousal, and Download Center RedesignEffectively collaborated and project managed the redesign of the Microsoft Home page, Holiday display, and Download Center in an agile, multi-disciplinary team. Successfully developed, user tested and released an experience that retained existing users and increased the user base.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Projects: Redesigned the Casey Foundation search and primary navigationRedesigned the search and primary navigation for the investor internal tools using SharePoint as a platform. Worked effectively with product management and engineering beginning with the development cycle from early usability studies to IA design, creating an experience highly adopted by their user base.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

Projects: Talent Development Software including Compensation, Succession, Attrition, Goal Setting, Performance Review, 360 Review, and Learning Software.Set the vision and design for a performance and talent development software while working with teams of product owners and development that were entrenched in the old way of building products. Collaborated, facilitated meetings, and lead teams located several time zones away. Successfully created the Compensation, Succession, and Performance Review Tools which doubled the user base.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Projects: MSN Video Website RedesignDeveloped, managed and redesigned the user experiences for MSN Video and internal tools. Coached and mentored interns and worked cross-functionally with project management and development to create and maintain a roadmap for product features. The redesign maintained and increased usage of the video tool.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Projects: Infospace Portal WebsitesDesigned user experiences for InfoSpace and portal websites. Experience included wire diagrams, new site maps, creative design, creation of presentations, working with project management to release website features.

Projects: Redesign of the ColdWater Creek website, Redesign of the Washington State Education Website (OSPI)Led the redesign effort for e-commerce Web sites (ColdWater Creek), and education website OSPI (Washington State Education site), while with stakeholders to help define the information architecture. Increased the ColdWater Creek user base and provided a complete redesign of the OSPI website improving navigation, design, accessibility, and ease of content download.

Projects: Expedia Travel, Microsoft brand standards, Vista application designs, and MSN Event designLed the integration of Expedia into MSN Travel which helped reach record sales of $16 million, the highest reported weekly sales figure for the online travel industry. Also, maintained brand standards for Microsoft & MSN, creation of Microsoft HIG Guidelines and Vista applications, and daily client management.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Projects: Vendor boutiques, Email campaigns, Redesign of the Nordstrom website IA and brand, Beauty and Fashion pages.Designed marketing and website content, created vendor boutiques for industry-leading fashion brands, inspirational and promotional content, banner ads for leading portal sites such as MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and Amazon, direct marketing emails and navigational design. Supported a 44% increase in demand and 14.5% revenue growth over the previous year.

Projects: Drugstore.com and Beauty.com website design and website print design collateralLed online web content for merchandising and marketing programs increasing retention and gaining customers by 50%. Developed the visual presentation style of merchandising promotions, department landing pages, and boutique shops including BEAUTY.COM by providing photo art direction, designing page layout and web templates. Improved the new user base and retention.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Projects: Product, marketing, web and print design projects

Projects: Tech event websites, event collateral and environmental designLed world-class creation of collateral and websites for high tech events. Directed designers and worked closely with development and event planners to set the vision and direction for the event. Also, handled tight timeline and budget constraints. Planned and successfully designed the 10th Anniversary event for Microsoft.

Projects: Briazz website design and POP in store designsArt directed and designed the in-store promotions creation of POP for all stores rollouts which occurred every 6-8 weeks. Maintained the Briazz web site and other sites that carried Briazz products, increasing customers by 50%.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Projects: Nintendo Magazine DesignPrint design, graphic production, and magazine design

Seattle, Wa, Us

Projects: Designed and managed the Food and Kids sections of the Seattle TimesDesigned and illustrated the front pages of the major sections of the newspaper

Projects: Wine bottle and event design

Projects: Act theater poster and guide design

Mafal-Graduated With Honors: 3.9 Gpa, Arts Leadership

Competent Communicator And High Performance Leadership

Bfa, Graphic Design And Illustration