Resume

I am a hybrid product designer and front-end engineer specializing in design systems design and development — helping teams level up their design system.

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Recent Experience

Senior Design Systems Designer at Pluto TV

Aug 2023 — Sep 2024

Led design efforts for Nitro Design System, enhancing the Pluto TV interface across Smart TV devices, mobile, tablet, and web platforms.
Established a design token framework within our Figma UI kit and code component libraries to streamline collaboration between design and engineering teams.
Conducted interactive design token workshops for designers, engineers, and stakeholders to facilitate comprehension and practical application of design tokens in projects.

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Cisco

May 2023 — Sep 2023

Designed components for the Magnetic Design System, focusing on end-to-end design and documentation.
Developed a sophisticated tab navigation system used by designers to prototype their projects.

Senior User Interface Designer, Design Systems at City National Bank

Nov 2022 — Mar 2023

Led design efforts and contributed to the Roxbury Design System, guiding its direction and providing support to multiple teams at City National Bank for product development.
Conducted research on internal products to identify ways to enhance designer and engineer efficiency through the design system.
Enhanced the color system documentation with an emphasis on accessibility to ensure inclusivity for all users.

Senior Design Technologist at First American

Mar 2021 — Nov 2022

Led and contributed to the Ignite Design System for the Ignite application suite, overseeing and supporting the system's direction and processes.
Developed design tokens, patterns, components, (Angular) front-end production code, and documentation for the design system's UI kit, component library, and Storybook to boost designer and engineer productivity in developing the Ignite application.
Established design and coding best practices for product design and engineering teams to drive design scalability and increase velocity for business initiatives.
Introduced a new color system with expanded hue variations for flexible pairings that align with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility contrast standards.
Implemented a design token system to enhance support for the component library and applications.
Devised methodologies for automating front-end component packaging to improve efficiency.
Converted the Ignite Design System Sketch UI kit to a Figma library UI kit and assisted new Figma designers in transitioning from Sketch to Figma.

Senior User Interface Developer at Boulevard

Sep 2019 — Feb 2021

Established Boulevard's design system, BLVD UI, which consisted of a Figma UI kit, React component library, and comprehensive design and technical documentation.
Implemented a design systems-driven design and development integration process.
Crafted a documentation website to offer guidance and examples on leveraging Boulevard's APIs.
Introduced a design token system compatible with CSS and JavaScript.

UX/UI Engineer at Brainbase

Oct 2018 — Sep 2019

Led the transformation of a challenging front-end codebase burdened with technical debt. Established a robust framework featuring reusable and scalable components developed in Angular, Sass, and Bootstrap, enhancing our code productivity and scalability.

Product Designer at Taboola

Oct 2016 — Feb 2018

Oversaw product design for the publisher-focused analytics dashboard at Taboola, Taboola Newsroom. Collaborated with editorial teams from reputable publications like Oath/AOL, NBC, and New York Daily News to provide real-time actionable data, performance insights, metrics, and recommendations on their articles.

Product Designer at Fullscreen Media

Oct 2015 — Jun 2016

Helped develop and launch a subscription-video-on-demand platform for Fullscreen, featuring original and licensed content tailored to young adults.
Revamped Fullscreen Go from scratch, creating a semi-automated online tool for YouTube creators to quickly apply and establish partnerships with Fullscreen.

Front-End Engineer at Fullscreen Media

Dec 2013 — Oct 2015

Led efforts on Fullscreen's Ruby on Rails component library and style guide for their web-based products including Creator Platform and Fullscreen video platform.
Bridged efforts between product design and engineering teams as a liaison to help bridge communication and collaboration.

UX/UI Designer at Fullscreen Media

Sep 2012 — Dec 2013

Defined, designed, and built Fullscreen's internal tools utilized to manage content creators and contracts.

Education

University of Central Florida

Digital Media, concentration in Interactive Media Design (did not complete degree requirements).

Associate of Arts at Tallahassee Community College

Major in General Studies

Skills

Expertise

Design Systems
Systems Thinking
Systems-Driven Design & Development
Design Token Management
Product Design
Accessibility
Iconography
Prototyping

Tools and Technologies

Figma
Figma Token Studio
Sass & CSS
CSS-in-JS
React
Storybook
Style Dictionary
Gatsby
Angular
TypeScript
JavaScript
Git
Supernova
Zeroheight

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