Experience and Education
UX Lead, Google
September 2022 to present: At Google I lead UX for visual formats and human voices in Search. Our goal is to organize the world’s information and make it universally useful and accessible. I focus on balancing authoritative results with fresh, relatable, snackable perspectives. Connect with me to learn more.
Product Design Manager, Etsy
October 2020 to September 2022: At Etsy I was a Product Design Manager across the UX Foundations Initiative which includes Design Systems and Accessibility. I provided strategy, leadership, coaching, and design feedback to the teams that build the visual-and-interactive system. Product teams at Etsy rely on this system to build beautiful, usable experiences in a repeatable way. On UX Foundations, we designed, tested, and distributed components, guidelines, and toolkits that enable designers and engineers to quickly-and-efficiently build products for millions of Etsy buyers and sellers around the world.
Lead UED, PNC Bank
July 2018 to October 2020: numo is a subsidiary of PNC Bank, and identifies as part startup, part corporate innovation lab, and part tech incubator. At numo I am led the design team on indi.
As the first designer on indi, I founded the indi brand and pattern library for our mobile application that is built in Flutter. I designed the logo, debit card, marketing website, design system library, and contributed to social and email marketing content.
Design Team Lead, Forever
May 2016 to July 2018: As Lead Designer of the Product Team, you could find me defining providing critical design feedback and direction, validating requirements, leading design sprint-planning on the e-commerce team, creating and pitching mock-ups to key stakeholders including the CEO, iterating on hi-fi designs, preparing prototypes, analyzing usability studies, peer reviewing and writing front-end code and much more!
Forever is Pittsburgh based technology start up that is growing fast. The core product offering is full resolution online storage guaranteed for your lifetime plus 100 years.
UI/UX Developer, RedMorph
July 2014 to May 2016: At RedMorph I was involved in the full product life-cycle, from defining requirements to pushing code to production to QA. My core focus, however, was designing intuitive interfaces under user-centered design principles. Projects include mobile and web VPN, a Chrome extension, marketing website, our user portal and more.
RedMorph is a Pittsburgh based technology start up that offers the ultimate privacy solution so users can discover the freedom to browse the internet without fear.
Graphics Specialist, Stetson
January 2013 to July 2014: At Stetson I had the privilege to design conference signage for USAG gymnastics, GNC, Johnson & Johnson and many more. In addition to large scale print design, I aided in conference floor plans using CAD, and created 3D models and renderings of booths and lounge areas.
Education
B.A.SC. / A.S. / A.S. - August 2007 to June 2014
While pursuing my Associate of Applied Science in Game Programming at Brookdale Community College, I simultaneously obtained an Associate of Applied Science in Digital Media & 3D Animation. I then went on to receive my Bachelor’s in Game Art & Design at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.