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Work Experience
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Home Partners of America (a Blackstone company)
UX Lead
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Won the Cultural Influencer Award for Innovation for leading the design and creation of a vendor portal that processed over 200,000 work orders, saving the company 28% per order by eliminating reliance on a third-party provider. Additionally nominated for the Teamwork Award.
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Managed a team of designers across the US and China (between 6-10 designers). Accountable for the design work across 15+ platforms, including mobile apps and web apps and websites for external and internal products.
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Improved visibility of UX work, research, and achievements within the company.
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Reduced costs of UX tools by 60% while expanding their functionality.
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
Winter International (Bloom Growth, Traction Tools, meetings.io)
UX Lead (Jun 2021 - Feb 2022)
UX Designer (Dec 2021 - Jun 2021)
UX Consultant (Oct 2019 - Dec 2019)
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Led UX and visual design for 3 companies under Winter International, all related to business processes and meetings, ensuring cohesive and user-focused designs.
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Increased meeting creation 24.4% in our newest meeting-related web app by creating an onboarding process and new meeting creation experience.
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Conducted qualitative and quantitative research and also moderated workshops to understand user and business needs.
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Designed a meeting platform from scratch in just 2 months.
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Established a centralized user research repository using Dovetail, consolidating reports from 4 researchers and fostering data-driven decisions.
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Ensured all designs met accessibility and WCAG compliance standards.
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
VOKAL Agency
UX Consultant
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Designed two WCAG-compliant MVPs in 6 months for two large clients as a part-time design consultant.
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Led workshops with Gordon Food Service, a leading food distribution company, and Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI), a provider of aircraft maintenance and support to define MVP requirements, ensuring alignment between business objectives and user needs.
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Leveraged past research and interviews to create and iterate user-centric, industry-specific products.
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Risekit
Marketing Consultant
May 2017 - May 2018
Clearsettle, Ozan, and SettleGo
UX Designer and Art Director
May 2014 - May 2017
Slack and Company
Assistant Art Director
Education
Class of '13
Columbia College Chicago
Bachelor in Fine Arts (BFA), Visual Communications (GPA 3.95)
Other training
2021
Datacamp
Data science for everyone
Introduction to Python
Intermediate Python
Phyton Data Science Toolbox
2020
Wharton online
Gamification
2016
Ascend Training
Responsive web design
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And more!
Skills & Expertise
Empathize
User interviews
Surveys
Competitive analysis
Behavioral data analysis
Contextual inquiry and shadowing
Social listening
Define
Affinity mapping
Prioritization matrix
How might we
SWOT analysis
Kano model
5 Whys
Ideate
Whiteboarding and brainstorming
Crazy 8s
Dot voting
Reverse brainstorming
SCAMPER
Storyboarding
Prototype
Wireframes
mid- and high-fidelity prototypes
Design systems
Accessibility review
Test
A/B Testing
Usability testing
Metrics review
Heatmaps, recording, funnels, and paths
Companies I’ve Worked With







