education

New York University
Master of Arts, May 2010
Graphic Communication Management
& Technology

Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 2007
Communication Design

PROGRAMS

School of Visual Arts
Graduate School of Interaction Design: Summer Immersive Studies, June 2015
Visualizing Data/Data Visualization

The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school)
09/2018 - 01/2019

  • Design for Health: Helping Patients Navigate the Experience

  • Design For Pediatric Feeding Challenges

 

Experience

Lead Product Designer, Mortgage services
Blend, 03/2021 - present

Senior Product Designer, Pharmacy Systems
Alto Pharmacy, 06/2019 - 09/2020

  • Product design ownership of supply chain and fertility

  • Launched Alto database revamp, designed solutions for database curation, process flows, and drug search experience

  • Facilitated stakeholder workshops for product roadmap and strategy

  • Led research efforts on fertility patient journey

  • Advocated for user needs and operational improvements

Senior Product Designer (Contract) - Membership Experience
Peloton, 03/2019 - 06/2019

  • Ownership of research efforts on all membership experiences

  • Completed research projects focusing on new members’ delivery experiences, proposed service design & operational optimizations

Lead Product Designer - Internal & Seller Platforms
1sdtdibs, 03/2017 - 06/2018

Senior Product Designer - Internal Platform
1sdtdibs, 09/2014 - 03/2017

  • Product design ownership of transactional features, internal tools and dealer/seller platforms

  • Led design initiatives from research/discovery, concepting, design iterations, execution and user testing

  • Created interactive prototypes and wireframes, illustrating interaction patterns for usability studies, development, and stakeholder discussions

  • Influenced product roadmap with design strategy and next generation concepts

  • Led cross-functional workshops and executive meetings

  • Mentored and supported fellow product designers on the team

  • Planned and hosted company wide design workshops to promote and evangelize design thinking

UI/UX Designer
Adaptly, 04/2012 - 08/2014

  • Created visual concepts, ideas and deliverables from inception to execution for assigned projects

  • Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to generate desired cross-publisher user experience and increase product usage

  • Managed external user recruitment initiative, create, validate and iterate hypotheses, recruit external users for research & testing

  • Partaken in successfully obtaining Twitter Marketing Platform Partnership

  • Collaborated with key stakeholders to design and create an intuitive, easy-to-use and simple-to-understand Adaptly Facebook insights solution

  • Oversaw monthly product metrics reports, provide key measurement of quantitative data for the team and business stakeholders

Lead Designer
Hotlist.com, 02/2009 - 04/2012

  • Supervised art direction on design projects of all scales: monthly usability improvement projects, product marketing initiatives and Hotlist mobile application

  • Managed all PR/Marketing efforts for the mobile app release: concepting & wire-framing of the iPhone and Android apps, collaborating with contractor on concept & design of promotional video

  • Managed and maintained all in-house design projects: creation on brand book, style guides and CSS library

Junior Designer
Questex Media Group, 07/2007 - 12/2008

  • Designed page layouts, front covers, cover stories, special columns and custom ads

  • Redesigned and managed content update for TravelAgent Magazine website

  • Overhauled TravelAgent Magazine weekly newsletter, managed daily CMS updates