Who I am

Senior UX & Visual UI Product Designer, experienced creating responsive, platform-based products, native mobile apps, eCommerce stores, and CMS & Admin systems. Tech savvy, Agile trained, Accessibility certified.

User Experience (UX)

Broad UX skillset for full Product Design lifecycle, from Discovery through Delivery
Experienced running User Interviews and conducting Prototype Validation
Lean, Agile-team-integrated, tech-friendly approach
Data-driven mindset (analytics, success metrics, outcome based roadmaps)
Workshop facilitation with internal stakeholders and external users

Visual Design (UI):

Agency-quality visual design skills and global brand experience
Multi-national, multi-language internationalization & localization
Interactive prototyping (low-fidelity through ultra-high fidelity)
Many years design mentoring and directing external agency partners
Design system creation, usage, and maintenance
Accessibility certified (IAAP WAS)

Tools & Soft Skills

Design: Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, InDesign, and many others
Prototyping: Invision, Webflow, Miro, Mural, Figma, Sketch
Surveys & Analytics: Pendo, Alchemer, Mouseflow, SurveyMonkey
Agile: Capable of writing user stories and backlog management
Tech: I speak Programmer (in the past I built interactive websites)
Presentation: Highly skilled at presentations and storytelling

Portfolio

During my career, I've worked in Healthcare, eCommerce, Pharmaceutical, Entertainment, Technology, Finance, and Education. Lately, I've been busiest in these industries.

Design & Design Systems

Current:
Figma (for design), Procreate (for digital sketching)
Past:
Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Muse, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, ImageReady, Zeplin, Abstract
Future:
I'm constantly experimenting with other products, because there isn't one tool to rule them all

Analytics & Process

User Behavior Analytics:
Pendo, Mouseflow, HotJar (website), MailChimp, Marketo, ConstantContact (email)
Agile:
Confluence, Jira, Miro, Various Roadmapping tools

Prototyping

Low and High Fidelity:
Figma, Invision, Sketch, Miro, Mural
Ultra-high Fidelity:
Webflow
Prototyping tools are evolving rapidly, moving closer to my dream of designing in production-ready code

Research & Strategy

User Testing: Invision, Figma, Sketch, Validately, UserTesting.com, Userzoom, Zoom/Facetime
Whiteboarding & Roadmaps: Miro, Mural, Figma, Confluence, Jira, ProductPlanner, AirTable
User Surveys & Recruiting: Pendo, SurveyGizmo/Alchemer, SurveyMonkey, Mouseflow & Hotjar

Experienced using these tools:

UX + Agile = Planning Success

This Product Designer product extremely Agile and Jira Friendly. It's critical for Senior Stakeholders and Technology Partners to have full transparency into what UX is doing, and how we are making the product better for the end user. It not only helps the team stay user-centered, it also gives them a heads-up for upcoming development work, and includes them in technical and business feasibility discussions.

Storytelling is part of the job

All the wonderful UX research in the world won't turn into actual dev work, if you can't effectively show why it matters.

All of your beautiful UI designs and prototypes will be in lost to the ages, if you can't communicate the logic of your decisions.

TL;DR: Being a talented and thorough Product Designer isn't enough!
‍You need to be able to translate what UX knows into the language of business. Only then can UX ensure that end users get the best product possible.