Resume
Work Experience
2018 - Present
Designer & Strategist @ KDKAZ Design
KEY CLIENTS
Flourish: Product design, brand development, marketing site design, event booth design
Exponential DeFi: UX Lead re-imagined onboarding and new user experience
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Blueprint Income: UX/UI Lead, responsive product and marketing designs, design system development, white-labeling for partnership opportunity.
2021 - 2023
UX Designer @ NYDIG
UX/UI Lead for internal product. Concept designs for business development. Built the design org from the ground up. Cross-disciplinary teams, built strong relationships with developers.
2017 - 2018
Senior UX/UI Designer @ Keybank
UX/UI Lead for new feature (Guided Conversations, launched Oct. 2018). Integrated rapid user research into product development process. Leveraged design thinking practices to inform and validate product design decisions. Lead strategic innovative product spikes. Collaborated on agile, interdisciplinary product teams.
Education
Sept 2018
Design Thinking Bootcamp
@ Stanford University
Hands on, practical, bootcamp course in the practices of Design Thinking: using empathy, ideation and rapid prototyping to solve real problems for real people and businesses.
2003 - 2007
BFA Graphic Design
@RIT
Bachelor of fine arts in Graphic Design, Associates degree in Industrial Design.Minor in Psychology. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Skills & Expertise
Skills
UI Design
Design Systems
Information Architecture
User Flows
Object Oriented UX (OOUX)
Wireframes
User Research
Usability Testing
Design Thinking
Branding
Marketing
Tools
Figma
Adobe Creative Suite
Project Management Tools
(Jira, Linear, etc)
User Research Tools
(UserBrain, Usability Hub, etc)
Analytics
(Heap, DataDog, etc)
G Suite
Microsoft Office