Resume

Experience

Sr UX Designer
Okta, San Francisco, CA
11/2022 — Present

  • Driving UX strategy and vision for Okta’s enterprise identity governance and access management platform.

  • Design for scalability, extensibility, and cross-product alignment across 3+ product areas and multiple personas.

  • Contributed to a 3X increase in Entitlement Management adoption through delivery of key capabilities.

Sr Product Designer
Smartsheet, Bellevue, WA
09/2020 — 11/2022

  • Spearheaded initiatives across multiple product pillars, streamlining user experiences at scale.

  • Led cross-team collaboration to build reusable, scalable design systems improving delivery speed and consistency.

  • Developed team-wide processes to improve engineering-product-design alignment and elevate design’s influence on product strategy.

  • Mentor junior designers internally and externally (via ADPList), focusing on strategic design thinking, systems thinking, and leadership growth.

Sr UX Designer
NEOGOV, El Segundo, CA
03/2019 — 09/2020

  • Focused on design operations, quantitative and qualitative user research, and high-level UX strategy.

  • Mentored junior Designers to strengthen team capabilities.

  • Served as design lead for Insights and HRIS products.

  • Collaborated closely with developers to ensure alignment and design fidelity.

Product Designer
HR Cloud, El Segundo, CA
09/2018 — 03/2019

  • Collaborated with a team of designers on HR software for web and mobile applications.

  • Initiated and managed projects showcasing product innovation.

  • Led a team of designers and developers to create and implement a new design system.

UX Designer
Metro, Los Angeles, CA
09/2016 — 09/2018

  • Introduced human-centered design practices as the agency’s first UX Designer.

  • Led redesign of the GoMetro mobile app.

  • Developed content strategy for new sections of Metro.net.

  • Created the Metro UI Kit and Style Guide.

Graphic Designer
Still Room Design Studio, Los Angeles, CA
07/2015 — 09/2017

  • Worked with clients including Cal Arts REDCAT, Planned Parenthood, MAK Center, and the Los Angeles Library Foundation.

Education

BFA Communication Arts
Emphasis in Graphic Design
Otis College of Art and Design,
Los Angeles, CA

Graduated with honors

AA Social and Behavioral Science
Santa Monica College,
Santa Monica, CA

AA Liberal Arts, Arts & Humanities
Santa Monica College,
Santa Monica, CA

Licenses & Certifications

NN/g
UX Certification
UX Management Specialty

Interaction Design Foundation
Design Patterns for AI UX

General Assembly
UX Design

General Assembly
Front-End Web Develepment

IBM
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

Interaction Design Foundation
Information visualization

Skills

Design Tools
Figma, Pendo, Protopie, Balsamiq, Dovetail, Adobe Suite

Industry Knowledge
Systems Thinking, Design Systema, Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, Wireframing, Competitive Analysis, Design Sprint Facilitation, Prototyping

Development
HTML, CSS, (Some) JavaScript