I have fifteen years of as a seasoned product and user experience design professional, with expertise in design management, service design, design strategy, design systems, native mobile design, accessibility, and data visualization.
Experience
Advisor, Designer 01/2023–present
Cubiq
•Worked with CEO and development team to transition a personal storage company into a provider of SaaS logistics applications.
•Responsible for developing comprehensive flows, models, and blueprints, as well as designing the fundamental screens for both desktop and mobile web applications.
•Established a design system to ensure consistency and coherence across the applications.
Product Designer 06/2022–01/2022
Ads Guidance, Meta
•Collaborated with designers, researchers, and developers to increase ad revenue for Meta.
•Produced design prototypes for live guidance design experiments, increasing Meta ad placement by 11 percent resulting in multi-million dollar ad sales.
•Member of Ads Guidance Leadership and design ops team, developing team best practices.
Design Lead 9/2021-06/2022
Liberty Mutual
•Led the distribution and CRM design team for Liberty’s GRS Division.
•Produced strategy and roadmap, and managed and scoped design resources.
•Member of the leadership team, and contributed to design ops, recruitment, coached and mentored junior designers.
Principal Designer, Senior Manager 03/2019-08/2021
Fidelity Investments
Created and managed mobile design system:
•Worked with product management, designers, researchers, and developers to champion, design, and develop mobile design systems.
•Reduced developer overhead with increased efficiency with simple, repeatable UX patterns and documentation.
•Facilitated workshops for working groups across the company in the mobile space.
•Increased Accessibility across different platforms and applications with the introduction of dark mode, dynamic type resizing, and QA process that exceeded WCAG mobile guidelines.
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Led mobile personal investing experiences including:
•Working with the business, research, content management, and development to prototype, test and deliver mobile experiences.
•New trade and fractional trade features helped to increase trade volume and contextual help and learning that reducing call volume.
•Advisor experiences for wealth management clients.
Lead Strategist and Designer 2017-2019
Contract
•Lead strategist for Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s website redesign in partnership with Publicis Sapient. Conducted workshops with key stakeholders and presented guidance and design for website architecture, design systems, accessibility, and data visualization.
•Design for Bose and Normatec IoT-connected mobile apps.
•Strategy and design for John Hancock .
Director of UX 2016-2017
Continuum
•Worked with product management and software engineering to created and manage Continuum’s user experience team of designers globally.
•Managed and championed functional design system and pattern library for continuity across multiple product areas.
•Ensured on-time delivery of projects to meet quarterly objectives.
Principal Product Designer 2015-2016
Pixability
•Re-architected product to combine 3 legacy offerings and new product enhancements and features
•Created the design system to support the merger and redesign of multiple products
•Facilitated the creation of a new brand for Pixability with an outside agency
Designer 2014-2015
•Design lead for Google’s Cloud’s Stackdriver cloud monitoring and logging applications
•Worked with research, product management and engineering to continuously release new features
•Created key pieces of data visualization that were a key part of Stackdriver’s acquisition by Google
•Led redesign of application to fall in line with Google’s standards
•Created data visualization library with engineering for Google Cloud’s design system
Senior Critic, 2009-2014
Rhode Island School of Design
•Taught design systems, senior studio, and dynamic media courses for the undergraduate graphic design department.
•Developed and taught digital design courses that focused on bringing digital and service design mindsets to visual thinkers.
Founder and Chief Product Officer 2007-2012
Shapemix
•Raised $2mm to create a cloud-based music mixing platform used by 50k users.
•Head of Boston office consisting of Content Managers, Developers, and Designers.
•Collaborated with Spin to produce a special mixing contest featuring Skrillex and Tiesto.
•Featured in Wired, Mashable, and other publications
Education
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MFA, Graphic Design, 2007 - 2009
Tufts University, BFA, Liberal Arts, 1993 - 1998
Patent
US20110271186A1, Visual audio mixing system, and method thereof