Experience
Product Designer
Devbridge/Cognizant Moment, Chicago, IL; September 2023–Present
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Provides a $12 million financial services client with UX/UI design solutions for new feature development and current feature maintenance via documented user flows, low-fidelity designs, and high-fidelity prototypes.
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Collaborates with a large delivery team of designers, product owners, product managers, business analysts, and engineers to bring forth design solutions in an agile environment.
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Draws on product knowledge to gauge client product maturity, document design & technical debt, and provide stakeholders with resources for quarterly planning and user research initiatives.
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Maintains and documents detailed component and pattern libraries for client products within Figma.
Employee Experience Designer
PPL Services, Remote; January 2023–September 2023
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Led and supported workshops with Service Design peers and utilities industry subject matter experts to map processes, informing enterprise application integration and workflow optimization.
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Collaborated with research and product teams to evaluate current employee experiences and provide UX and UI direction on third-party work management enterprise application implementation.
UX/UI Designer
PMMI Media Group, Chicago, IL; January 2019–January 2023
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Collaborated with content, product, and development teams to design and provide strategy for trade media websites, impacting 950,000 users in the packaging manufacturing industry.
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Worked with digital marketing teams to improve digital campaing efforts, boosting end-user acquisition conversion rates by 120% in a quarter.
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Optimized email production workstreams through an automation intitiative, contributing to a 63% reduction in production errors in one year and 81% over four years.
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Advocated for and implemented Webflow into the tech stack for content-driven sites, cutting hosting and CMS costs and enabling support for more complex projects.
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Promoted and led end-user research to enhance insights for multi-channel media products.
Digital Media Art Director
PMMI Media Group, Chicago, IL; January 2018–December 2018
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Designed and maintained multi-media engagement and growth campaigns for publication brands.
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Continued art direction and design contribution for the bi-monthly publication Healthcare Packaging.
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Provided HTML development and design expertise for email production and QC teams.
Associate Art Director
PMMI Media Group, Chicago, IL; January 2017–December 2017
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Designed conceptual covers and editorial layouts for the bi-monthly publication Healthcare Packaging, working with editors, publishers, and print production to deliver aesthetic issues on time and in budget.
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Designed print materials for event marketing, client marketing, and end-user marketing campaigns.
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Provided email HTML development and design expertise to product, email production and QC teams.
Junior Graphic Designer
PMMI Media Group, Chicago, IL; June 2016–December 2016
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Assisted marketing and editorial teams in creating print and digital collateral for trade publication brands including supplemental digests, printed mailers and brochures, logo and branding design, and event signage.
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Provided design and HTML support to email production and QC teams.
Education
Loyola University Chicago
August 2012–May 2016; Chicago, Illinois
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Bachelors of Arts with a Major in Visual Communication and Minor in Drawing and Painting, Magna Cum Laude.
Skills
Software
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Fluent in Figma and Sketch design & prototyping tools.
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Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite including Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
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Fluent in Miro and LucidChart collaboration and flow mapping tools.
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Fluent in Webflow design and development.
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Fluent in Microsoft Office, including Word and Powerpoint.
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Proficient in form tools, including Wufoo, Omeda Dragon Forms.
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Literacy in Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Data Studio.
Code Languages
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Fluent in email HTML development.
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Proficient in front-end HTML and CSS.
Other Skills & Methodologies
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Fluent in Agile Methodologies.
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Proficient in Service Blueprinting.
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Proficient in design systems creation and management.