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Detroit, Mi, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Detroit, Michigan

Flower Press is an equitable publishing practice centering womxn, femme, queer, and trans artists and practitioners. We publish books, zines, periodicals, dreams, memories, stickers, magic tricks, instructional manuals, guides, maps, poems, tapes, and more.

In my capacity as Director of Design for Artists and Labels, I defined and executed on strategic business priorities, collaborated with stakeholders across the company to create and drive roadmaps, coordinated cross-company product and platform efforts, and remained a key part of the design team. As Bandcamp became part of Epic Games, I undertook all regulatory and compliance efforts, removing millions of dollars of potential liability and, frankly, shielding the rest of the design team from incredibly tedious (but important!) work. I built out the Accessibility, Design System, and Brand Guidelines working groups, attending regular meetings and contributing to the mission and activity of each group.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

I took up the role of Interim Head of Design overnight, in the midst of the pandemic. During my time in this role, I grew and led a thriving design organization, stepped into company leadership, and led a top-priority feature team. I managed a growing design organization, identifying team needs and making several hires. I familiarized myself with each designer’s working style, strengths, and opportunity areas, providing mentorship and support for individual growth. I ramped up quickly on each designer’s product area and features, gaining enough domain expertise to give regular, actionable, meaningful feedback.I provided sensitive, empathetic leadership to my team both individually and as a whole, managing the ebb and flow of expectations and capacity during a supremely difficult time. I worked to receive, synthesize, and implement feedback to improve job satisfaction, working processes, stakeholder relationships, and to build pathways for growth at Bandcamp. This is exemplified by my formation of three working groups: Accessibility, Brand Guidelines, and Design System, each of which has delivered measurable impact across Bandcamp’s services.I worked with the C-suite and the rest of Bandcamp’s leadership on long and short term planning strategies, prioritizing, estimating, and planning projects, forming and briefing teams, removing roadblocks as they arose, and communicating information between teams and leaders. When a company reorg was announced, I designed the newly-created Director of Design roles and reimagined the design organization in a way that supported the vision of the reorg.I performed all of these duties while simultaneously leading the design of Bandcamp Live, Bandcamp’s live streaming offering. This was an essential lifeline for artists during the pandemic, from both a socioemotional and monetary perspective.After my tenure in this role, it was split into four distinct full-time roles: a head of design, two directors, & a feature designer.

Detroit, Mi

In November 2019, I received a title change to recognize my status as a senior designer.

Detroit, Mi

As a Senior Designer, I led the Discovery and Community feature team along with an engineering and product counterpart. I overhauled the fan onboarding experience, designed desktop messaging features, and advocated for and ultimately led design to unify the search, discover, and tags experiences across Bandcamp’s services.I became a critical resource within the company. I was called on to tackle highly technical, mission-critical projects alongside between my core assignments, provided key insights to help refine our product development processes (e.g. championing the “product triad” model and stable feature team assignments), and fleshed out Bandcamp’s brand, creating company collateral, expressive touches such as product illustration, and pitching and co-designing a zine series that highlighted music scenes in several cities across the globe. Additionally, I started Bandcamp’s design system, which grew into an essential, cross-functional team.

San Francisco Bay Area And Detroit

Victory Kitchen focuses on celebrating collective power through food, craft, and service. We aim to provide a safe, empowering space for all through accessible pop-up dinners, workshops, and community collaborations.

Mountain View

Google Play is an ecosystem of media consumption apps (e.g. Google Play Music, Google Play Books) and includes the Google Play Store, the official storefront for Android apps and games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines, and more. With over 93 million monthly active users in the US alone, the Google Play Store is one of the most used Android mobile apps globally.I led user experience design for significant efforts with broad impact in the Play Store and often across the Play ecosystem. These efforts included a full-scale redesign of the Play Store, a family-focused Play Store experience, an optimized experience for users with low data access, and design for users with physical or cognitive Accessibility needs, art direction for several global marketing campaigns, and rigorous primary design research.In addition to my core contributions, I acted as a bridge from Google to the Bay Area community through several volunteer philanthropic efforts including designing and prototyping an intake process for the SF AIDS Foundation's Strut center, designing the brand materials for the Great Wall of Oakland's Writ Large Festival, leading a gardening project at Theuerkauf Elementary School in Mountain View, raising over $10,000 for SF-based homeless services organization Compass Family Services, mentoring young women through the E-Mentors Program, volunteering with the Shoebox Project, and participating in several Women in Tech and Design programs across Google.

San Francisco Bay Area

Berkeley, Ca

Interactive, brand, and print design, primary research, rigorous concepting, data visualization, creation of wireframes, site maps, proofs of concept, developers’ mechanicals, production, design research, copywriting, vector and hand-drawn illustration.

Green River, Utah

During and following a Fellowship with the Epicenter – a community-based housing organization in Green River, Utah – I created the organization's brand materials including identity, signage, website, and various print collateral. I also initiated a fundraising effort to aid in the construction of a Habitat for Humanity home.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed a curriculum around the predetermined theme of technology, curated activities, and guided middle school students through essential design processes ranging from brainstorming to modelmaking.