Résumé

Experience

Product Design Lead September 2022 – Present
Panorama Education – Remote

• Lead product design execution and its alignment to overall product strategy and goals for one of the company’s three major product lines, including design visioning, shipping features, and providing feedback and direction to fellow designers

• With engineering leads and product managers, define high-level requirements, constraints, and goals for complex projects, break down large problems into smaller ones, and identify dependencies to rationally sequence the work in a strategic way

• Collaborate with peer design leads on product-line-spanning design initiatives to integrate those products into a single platform for a cohesive, consistent user experience

• Mentor and coach product designers, leveling up both technical and communications skills to successfully collaborate across functions and build great products
  

Product Designer January 2022 – August 2022
Northstar Money – Remote

• Spun up user research practice encompassing user persona definition and operational processes for continuous discovery and research study execution

• Partnered with product and engineering to define solutions, scope, and product requirements

• Facilitated workshops for business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ideate, align, and make decisions

• Designed consumer-facing features for financial wellness product on web and iOS; contributed to web and iOS design systems and component libraries

UX/Product Strategist June 2020 – January 2022
Vanguard – Philadelphia

• Drove stakeholder alignment on product vision for consumer mobile app serving 2.5M clients

• Facilitated workshops for business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ideate, align, and make decisions

• Led UX strategy with content strategists and user researchers, providing senior leaders with a more cohesive vision of the product’s north star

• Mentored and coached UX designers and strategists to hone their craft and level-up their skills

• Developed operational processes; managed day-to-day project tasks and led collaboration sessions for UX designers, writers, and researchers

Lead Product Designer February 2019 – June 2020
Senior Product Designer January 2018 – February 2019
Product Designer November 2016 – January 2018
Wellframe – Boston

• Designed features and capabilities from end-to-end for iOS, Android, and web SaaS products

• Built design system to create consistent and standardized UI patterns; reduced visual design process delivery time by 40%

• Conducted user interviews and usability testing at client sites with B2B product users; synthesized qualitative data and generated actionable insights for product improvements

Designer February 2016 – November 2016
BEAM Interactive – Boston

• Participated in design sprints to define and explore future digital experience with and for firm clients; performed design thinking exercises, competitive and landscape analyses, and experience audits

• Prototyped working demos with engineering team, observed user testing, and analyzed insights

• Partnered with producers, account executives, strategists, and
  copywriters to execute against objectives presented in client briefs

UI/UX Designer February 2014 – February 2016
Wayfair – Boston

• Led end-to-end creative redesign of iOS app for iPhone and iPad

• Drove initiative to create mobile style guide and pattern library to reduce engineering effort and unify brand across devices and platforms

• Collaborated with UX writers and engineers to bring UI designs to fruition

Additional Experience

Freelance June 2009 – Present 
Select clients include: Catapult Thinking, Creative Somerville, Royal Coffee New York, and The Change Climate Project.

Designer, Go Ahead Tours June 2012 – December 2013 
EF Education First, Cambridge MA

Designer September 2009 – July 2011 
Block Club Creative, Buffalo NY

Graphic Design Co-op March 2008 – September 2008 
Susquehanna International Group, Bala Cynwyd PA