Experience

Product Designer

Devbridge/Cognizant Moment, Chicago, IL; September 2023–Present

  • 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.
  • Collaborates with a 100+ person delivery team of designers, product managers, business analysts, and engineers to bring forth design solutions in an agile environment.
  • Draws on product knowledge to gauge client product maturity, document design and technical debt, and provide stakeholders with resources for quarterly planning and user research initiatives.
  • Maintains and documents detailed component and pattern libraries for client products within Figma.

Employee Experience Designer

PPL Services, Remote; January 2023–September 2023

  • Led and supported workshops with Service Design peers and utilities industry subject matter experts to map utility processes, informing enterprise application integration and workflow optimization.
  • Collaborated with research and product teams to evaluate current employee experiences and provide UX and UI direction to third-party work management enterprise application implementation.

UX/UI Designer

PMMI Media Group, Chicago, IL; January 2019–January 2023

  • 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.
  • Worked closely with digital marketing teams to improve digital campaign efforts, boosting end-user acquisition conversion rates by 120% in a quarter.
  • Optimized email production workstreams through an automation initiative, contributing to a 63% reduction in production errors in one year, and 81% over four years.
  • Advocated for and implemented Webflow into the tech stack for content-driven sites, cutting hosting and CMS costs, and enabling engineering support for other more complex projects.
  • 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

  • Designed and maintained multi-media engagement and growth campaigns for six different trade publication brands.
  • Continued art direction and visual design contribution for the bi-monthly publication Healthcare Packaging.
  • Provided email HTML development and design expertise to product, email production, and QC teams.

Associate Art Director

PMMI Media Group, Chicago, IL; January 2017–December 2017

  • 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 on budget.
  • Designed print materials for event marketing, client marketing, and end-user marketing campaigns.
  • 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

  • Created print and digital collateral for marketing and editorial teams, including supplemental digests, printed mailers and brochures, logo and branding design, and event signage.
  • Provided design and HTML support to product, email production and QC teams.

Education

Loyola University Chicago

August 2012–May 2016; Chicago, Illinois

  • Bachelors of Arts with a Major in Visual Communication and Minor in Drawing and Painting, Magna Cum Laude.

Skills

Skills & Methodologies

  • Fluent in Agile Methodologies.
  • Fluent in design thinking and product-led design and development.
  • Proficient in Service Blueprinting and user flow mapping.
  • Proficient in design systems creation and management.

Software

  • Fluent in Figma and Sketch design & prototyping tools.
  • Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite including Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
  • Fluent in Miro and LucidChart collaboration and flow mapping tools.
  • Fluent in Webflow design and development.
  • Fluent in Microsoft Office, including Word and Powerpoint.
  • Proficient in form tools, including Wufoo, Omeda Dragon Forms.
  • Literacy in Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Data Studio.

Code Languages

  • Fluent in email HTML development.
  • Proficient in front-end HTML and CSS.