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Lead UX Designer
LCvista
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 7 months)
• Led the redesign for their Saas application with a focus on accessibility and solving user pain points.
• Worked with the business and leadership to introduce new design processes.
• Created wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user flows with the latest tech in Axure, Figma, Figjam, and Whimsical.
• Mentored and coached an entry level junior designer.
• Conducted design reviews and workshops to incorporate feedback from the business, product, and engineering teams.
• Performed research to better define user needs with user observations, user interviews, usability testing, and other analysis.
• Analyzed the data from research and usability test findings to iterate on designs and provide solutions.
• Created company UX Standards, a style guide with code examples in HTML and CSS for developers, and a design system in Axure.
• Created an Atlassian Confluence space for the company full of UX best practices, reports, test results, personas, and a database for all design and prototype work.
• Worked in an agile scrum team to release the redesign of UI components alongside feature improvements.
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Lead Frontend Designer
Arist
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021 (7 months)
• Led and completed the frontend design in this early stage startup using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Advocated for the user to make sure WCAG accessibility standards were a priority when creating the application.
• Created wireframes, user flows, task flows, and other artifacts using Figma and Whimsical.
• Delivered pixel perfect functional prototypes in code.
• Provided detailed design guidelines, instructions, and technical documentation in Notion.
• Mentored and coached junior level developers on writing and breaking down user stories in Jira, estimating tasks, and best scrum practices.
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UX Designer and Developer II
Total Quality Logistics
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 5 months)
• Worked within a UX team to help design internal and B2B external facing applications.
• Created wireframes, mockups, and prototypes in the latest Axure.
• Produced designs for data heavy internal apps for scheduling, bulk upload functions, vendor maintenance, and customer facing forms.
• Regularly conducted user observations and usability testing onsite and remotely.
• Gave large scale demos and company-wide presentations to drive change in UX procedures, processes, and to provide clarity for complex problems.
• Created a component library as part of the design system using npm, Azure, Angular, and Typescript.
• Enrolled in a Leadership Program where I learned to mentor and coach junior designers and developers.
• Won IT Innovation Award for internal npm libraries.
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UI/UX Designer
Dee Sign
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 1 month)
• Worked directly with the CEO and engineers to plan and execute all UX projects.
• Created wireframes and mockups on a whiteboard and in Whimsical.
• Gathered requirements from users and stakeholders through observation, user interviews, and task analysis.
• Regularly conducted in person user observations in order to test designs and diagnose user pain points.
• Created internal applications such as a new point of sale app, vendor rebranding, and apps for warehouse processing.
• Updated their AS/400 legacy technology using HTML, CSS, Angular, Typescript, and Angular Material.
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Software Developer
Stack Construction Technologies
Dec 2013 - Feb 2018 (4 years 2 months)
• Lead contributor for all UI implementation for their B2B Saas platform and marketing sites.
• Worked with another designer to rebrand and redesign the marketing site and Saas application.
• Performed A/B testing on landing pages to improve conversion rates and increase sales.
• Worked embedded in an agile team to refactor and replace Silverlight with Angular JS.
• Created key features that are used to measure areas based on scale using Angular JS and Konva.
• Made sure all applications and websites were responsive and mobile compatible using HTML and CSS.