Product Designer, Strategic and Creative Thinker
General Motors
Senior Designer, HID Enterprise
February 2021 - present
While at General Motors, I have worked on a variety of innovation projects, including new business ventures such as an online marketplace for classic car owners and a mobile companion application for non-traditional vehicle owners. In my current role, I am designing applications to ensure high-quality vehicle production right off the line, as well as software to streamline vehicle repair and maintenance, and experiences that ensure vehicles on the road have the latest software updates.
Literati
UX Designer (contract)
October 2020 - July 2021
As a contractor, I worked with the design, product, and engineering team to deliver a V1 of the Literati application for the web and larger screen resolutions. I also helped out with checkout workflow and design refinements, and presentation updates to account management.
Duo Security, Cisco
Senior Product Designer
April 2018 - June 2019
In my role at Duo, I worked together with Product and Engineering leads and other Designers on enhancing the end-user-focused touchpoints of the Duo Security zero-trust security platform. These included the web authentication prompt and the Duo mobile application for both iOS and Android.
Idean
Senior Interaction Designer
March 2017 - April 2018
As a Senior Interaction Designer at Idean, I focused on creating intuitive interaction designs on digital projects for clients ranging from international industry leaders to local clients – on desktop, web, and mobile platforms. The projects I contributed to, either as design lead or solely as an interaction designer, also helped me enrich my design research skills – from stakeholder and user interviews to concept validation and usability testing.
YouEarnedIt
Product Design Lead
June 2015 - March 2017
Throughout my time at YouEarnedIt, I worked across multiple teams as the Product Design Lead to evolve and scale both the web and mobile experiences to support the growth of our business, the needs of our growing customer base, and the efficiency of our team.
YouEarnedIt is now Kazoo.
Mass Relevance, Spredfast
Principal Product Designer
November 2011 - May 2015
When I first joined the team, I designed custom social experiences—powered by the Mass Relevance social integration and curation platform. I moved on to product strategy, user experience design (visual and interactive), and future concept ideation for products within the Spredfast Social Media software platform—publishing, redisplay, and analytics SaaS.
Spredfast is now Khoros.
frog design
Senior Interaction Designer
March 2004 - November 2011
During my time at frog, I moved from a Designer 1 to a Senior Interaction Designer.
My focus was on innovative user-focused interaction and visual design solutions for complex design problems for various digital media projects: media entertainment televisions, digital cameras, mobile phones, and handheld devices, embedded product interfaces, websites, and software applications.
My roles included project and product concepting, creation of interaction workflows and wireframes, visual designs, UI design system documentation and specifications, and future strategies.
ABOUT ME
Since the beginning of my career, I've focused on providing value for users and stakeholders. I love jumping from research to product strategy and creative vision, to UX/UI design, to production in a highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary team environment.
Along the way, I have delivered digital products and services—from embedded device UI, 10' UI, mobile UI, interactive social media experiences, to SaaS platforms. I can also match a Pantone at a press check, illustrated some mean gig posters, once bowled a 200, and I’ve been known to create art featuring a Lucha Libre rock band.
My toolbox currently includes Figma, Google Suite, Cursor, Notion, GitHub, Microsoft 365, Glean AI, Adobe Creative Suite, and many more – and as always, paper and pen.
In my current role with General Motors, I design software applications that ensure successful vehicle software delivery, enable production-line testing, and deliver performance and quality metrics from across our plants, all with the goal of optimizing manufacturing efficiency and supporting high-quality vehicle production.