Resume

Design Technologist, Design Systems Designer, Product Designer, and Front-End Developer with over seventeen years of experience in designing and building SaaS products.

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Proficiencies

Expertise

Design Systems
Component Libraries
Component Driven Design & Development
User Interface Design
User Experience Design
Prototyping
Iconography

Tools

Figma
Sass & CSS
React
Angular
Typescript
Storybook
Gatsby
Theme UI
Javascript
Git

Recent Experience

Mar 2021 — Present

Senior Design Technologist at First American

Primary maintainer and contributor to the Ignite Design System, including managing the design library in the UI kit, contributing code to the Angular component library, processes & tools, and design & technical documentation.
Established design and coding best practices for product design and engineering team to help increase velocity for business initiatives.
Evangelize design systems, systems design thinking, and tool support for designers and engineers (e.g., Figma).

Sep 2019 — Feb 2021

Senior UI Developer at Boulevard

Created Boulevard's design system — BLVD UI, including a Figma and React component library.
Developed component driven development process for end-to-end component design and development.
Designed API documentation website for third-party integrations.

Oct 2018 — Sep 2019

UX/UI Engineer at Brainbase

Inherited a complex front-end codebase with technical debt and laid the foundation for a framework with reusable and scalable user interface elements built with Angular, Sass, and Bootstrap.

Oct 2016 — Feb 2018

Product Designer at Taboola

Led product design on Taboola's publisher-focused analytics dashboard, Taboola Newsroom — assisting editorial teams at well-known publications such as Oath/AOL, NBC, New York Daily News by surfacing actionable data including performance insights, metrics, and recommendations on the publishers' articles in real-time.

Oct 2015 — Jun 2016

Product Designer at Fullscreen Media

Part of a multidisciplinary product design team that launched Fullscreen's video platform bringing original Fullscreen and licensed content catering to young adults.
Redesigned Fullscreen Go from the ground up, a semi-automated online application that allows YouTube creators to apply and formally partner with Fullscreen in minutes.

Dec 2013 — Oct 2015

Front-End Engineer at Fullscreen Media

Led efforts on Fullscreen's component library and style guide for their web-based products including Creator Platform and Fullscreen video platform.
Acted as liaison to the product design team and bridged the communication gap between the product design and engineering teams.

Sep 2012 — Dec 2013

UX/UI Designer at Fullscreen Media

Member of a small product design team, helping to define, design, and build Fullscreen's internal tools used to manage content creators and contracts.

Education

Aug 2003 — Feb 2005

University of Central Florida

Digital Media, concentration in Interactive Media Design (three years completed).

Jan 2002 — Jul 2003

Associate of Arts at Tallahassee Community College

Major in General Studies