Qualio

2021-2022

As the first hire and founding designer, I was tasked with setting the vision of the future for Qualio, and build the team to support the growth of this and ongoing functionality.

Design Manager 2021 - 2022

  • Hired and mentored 3 Product designers between Austin TX, Brazil, and Poland
  • Established the first UX practices such as internal and external usability testing as well as measuring the applications top task completion rates
  • Contracted Sr. UX Researcher (later hired) and Sr. UX Writer

Founding Product Designer 2021

  • Created vision for future of Qualio app experience.
  • Collaborated with Brand team to build a cohesive experience from logged-out to logged-in.

Symphony

2018-2021

Symphony.com is a $2.5B fin-tech startup providing a collaboration platform to optimize trading workflows. My current focus is a full re-design of the product with the goals of solving user pain points and up-leveling the holistic experience.

Senior UX Designer 2020 - 2021

  • Re-designed the content tagging system within the desktop client, including new ways to manage, explore and discover hashtags and cashtags
  • Led the standardization of Figma across our entire Design organization and helping the team transition from past tools
  • Extensively traveled internationally to gather insight into customers needs, visit product development sites, and collaborate with the design team abroad

UX Designer 2018 - 2020

  • Crafted the Information Architecture for our 2.0 desktop client through a user-centered design process, prioritizing primary user actions in the UI
  • Re-designed Symphony’s search experience through ethnographic user interviews and competitive analysis
  • Collaborated with UX and Engineering to create a UI for the core Symphony desktop client rooted in simplicity, optimized for a multi-monitor, high-frequency trading environment
  • Established our design system framework for a XFN design team

Visual Designer (Contract) 2018

Apple

2018

Up-leveled onboarding flows for the customer side of apple.com/business.

UX Designer (Contract) 2018

  • Built on-boarding flows, wireframes, and UI mockups based on established customer storyboards
  • Presented my progress in weekly syncs with Apple Business teams where I learned to bring all stakeholder concerns into the work with each iteration
  • Delivered pixel perfect red line documentation to development

Western Kentucky University

Bachelor of Fine Arts, focus in Graphic Design