Product Experience
Collage Director of UX/UI
DEC 2022 – PRESENT | BETHESDA, MD (REMOTE)
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Led the end-to-end design of fluen.ci, Collage’s first SaaS app used by clients to access cultural insights at scale, working with internal and external stakeholders to concept, design, and launch; saw MAUs grow 50% from Nov 2023–May 2024.
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Continue to design and ship new features across Collage products that steadily increase user adoption, including an AI-powered tool that gives clients faster, deeper access to insights and data—increasing MAUs steadily .
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Created a scalable design system for to help R&D move faster and build consistent experiences, collaborating with engineers to implement Mosaic, our React component library.
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Overhauled the company’s brand identity and websites (logo, client-facing content hub, marketing site) to better match the quality of our products.
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Partner with product, engineering, and marketing leadership to shape the product vision, plan roadmaps, and keep brand and product in sync.
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Lead product demos and regularly communicate design updates to Leadership Team, on company meetings, and occasionally to Board Members.
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Weave data into design decisions using FullStory and Google Analytics to spot friction points and track adoption.
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Help make a remote company feel more connected—creating a #design-chatter channel, mentoring teammates, and sharing design inspiration across teams.
Optimizely Staff Product Designer
APR 2021 – DEC 2022 | REMOTE
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Owned UX for Optimizely Data Platform following Zaius’ acquisition—quickly learning new systems and shipping improvements without slowing the team.
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Designed the Real-Time Segment Builder, making it possible for enterprise marketers to intuitively target audiences in minutes instead of hours.
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Helped evolve the Axiom design system and align patterns across multiple product teams, modeling best practices for giving and receiving feedback.
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Worked with the VP of Design to unify navigation across Optimizely’s entire SaaS suite so it felt like one platform, not a collection of separate tools.
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Mentored designers and developers, sharing best practices in goal-setting, interaction design, accessibility, and cross-team communication.
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Evangelized design thinking company-wide through talks, and supported ERGs like Mentally Forward, Out@Opti, Women of Opti, and Green Team.
Zaius (Acquired by Optimizely) Senior Product Designer
MAR 2018 – APR 2021 | BOSTON, MA
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Drove UX design for enterprise marketing automation tools—from early research and concepting to polished UI and usability testing—working closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Success teams.
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Created our first component library and style guide, cutting design-to-dev time and making the product more consistent and accessible.
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Partnered with Product Marketing to produce product visuals that explained complex features clearly and on brand for prospects and customers.
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Assisted Marketing Graphic Designer in updating brand look and feel, occasionally helping with additional graphic production.
DZone (Now Devada) Lead UX/UI Designer
JUN 2015 – MAR 2018 | CARY, NC
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Took business vision from concept through to research, design mockups, and often to front-end development across DZone’s two business: theDZone.com website and AnswerHub software product.
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Began as a Graphic Designer, working on the Marketing team to create graphics and ad collateral, lay out publication content, design infographics, and help establish & maintain the branding through a website redesign.
Design Experience
Boston Sings [BOSS] A Cappella Festival Website, Graphics & Social
NOV 2016 – PRESENT (VOLUNTEER)
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Coordinate social media and email marketing, creating all graphic and video content.
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Design and manage festival website and submission forms.
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Produce print material such as badges, signage, and certificates.
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Redesigned festival branding for a more modern, polished look (2017).
Freelance Graphic Designer
2014 – 2020
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Provided personal and product-specific branding; logos; illustrations; business infographics; graphics and content for web, email, and social media; graphics for print collateral; and packaging design for small businesses and non-profit clients.
EDUCATION
NC State University
Bachelor of Graphic Design
MAY 2013
Introduction to Web Accessibility
EdX Certification
NOV 2021
Unconscious Bias
LinkedIn Certification
AUG 2022
SKILLS
UX · UI · Visual Design · Branding · Accessibility
Information Architecture · Design Systems
AI · HTML · CSS · Responsive Web Design Audio/Video Editing · Vocal Arranging
Social Media Management
PROCESS
Collaboration · Concept · Sketching Wireframing · Interactive Prototyping
Research · Usability Testing · Documentation
Leadership · Project Management
TOOLS
Figma · Illustrator · Photoshop · Canva
Jira · GitHub · FullStory · Google Analytics
Docs · Sheets · Powerpoint · Wordpress
INTERESTS
Music · A Cappella · Crafts · Baking · Cooking Crocheting · Weightlifting · Yoga · Walking
Video Games · Puzzles · Board Games · Anime Psychology · Culture & Language
RELEVANT READS
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People –Susan Weinschenk
The Design of Everyday Things –Don Norman
Don’t Make Me Think –Steve Krug
Lean UX –Geoff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
Radical Candor –Kim Scott
Simple and Usable –Giles Colborne
Sprint –Jake Knapp
Storytelling With Data –Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Think Again –Adam Grant
When Coffee and Kale Compete –Alan Klement
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