Jack of all trades; Master of Empathy.
I am a passionate user experience expert, full-cycle product design and development leader, and problem solver focused on finding solutions that are intuitive for the user. I am a great communicator and highly motivated towards building beautiful and useful products that align with user needs and business objectives.
Experience
Sr. UX Designer, Shure Inc. (current)
Work with project manangement in guiding the UX on various hardware and software products, presenting evidence-based insights and UX storytelling presentations
Participated in user research sessions to gather user needs, create personas and scenarios, and ran UX workshops with multi-functional groups to carve out user needs, priorities, and requirements.
Aligned with product teams on user needs and business requirements based on user research and created user flows, wireframes, and other deliverables to help guide the requirements and feature development of the product.
Participated in user testing and synthesis of results into improvements to the product.
Assisted the Prism Design System team on identifying component needs and creating assets to be put into the design system library.
Sr. UX Designer, Abbott Laboratories Digital Health Solutions. (3 yrs)
Defined the UX vision and comprehensive UX architecture for the AlinIQ Insights Platform and it's suite of laboratory analytics solutions
Provided governance and design direction to junior designers on the design and development of the Digital Health Solutions (DHS) design system
Aligned with product teams on user needs and business requirements based on user research and created user flows, wireframes and other deliverables to help guide the requirements and feature development of the product.
Participated in user testing and synthesis of results into improvements to the product.
Sr. UX Designer, HERE Technologies (5 yrs)
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to lead the UX design vision for various products within the organization.
Participated in user research sessions to gather user needs, create personas and scenarios, and ran UX workshops with multi-functional groups to carve out user needs, priorities, and requirements.
Aligned with product teams on user needs and business requirements based on user research and created user flows, wireframes and other deliverables to help guide the requirements and feature development of the product.
Participated in user testing and synthesis of results into improvements to the product.
Assisted the LUI Design System team on identifying component needs and creating assets to be put into the Design System library.
Sr. UX Designer / Prototyper, Rovi Corporation (5 yrs)
Served as the lead UI/UX designer and front-end prototype engineer on a small R&D team, focusing on the creation of next-generation television guidance products
Deeply involved in creating digital and physical user research stimuli and researching new technologies that could benefit our users.
Designed and created prototypes for next-generation products using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Actively participated in and ran ideation workshops and submitted IP disclosures.
Sr. Designer (contract), Streng Design (6 mos)
Created wireframes and visual graphics for touch-screen panels for refrigerators, ovens, washers and dryers for a major home appliance company.
Education
B.A. in Graphic Design, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
M.S. Product Design & Development Management, Northwestern University
Capstone Project: "Collaborative Learning App Design" — Designed a mobile app to revolutionize educational ecosystems, enhancing interactive learning and peer collaboration through user research, ideation, and iterative design to create a user-friendly interface for mobile platforms.
Patents
Systems and methods for enabling an automatic license for mashups
UX 13/630,782 - issued Sept. 28, 2012