Resume

Design Technologist, Design Systems Designer, Product Designer, and Front-End Developer with over eighteen years of experience in designing and building SaaS products. I enjoy thinking about systems and solving problems, bridging the gap between designers and developers.

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Recent Experience

Senior Design Technologist at First American

Mar 2021 — Present

Primary manager and contributor to the Ignite Design System, including maintaining the Figma library UI kit, contributing code and components 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 scale design and increase velocity for business initiatives.
Evangelization of design systems, systems design thinking, and tool support for designers and engineers.
Created a new color system with more hue variations for pairings that meet accessibility contrast standards.

Senior UI Developer at Boulevard

Sep 2019 — Feb 2021

Created Boulevard's design system — BLVD UI, including a Figma UI kit, React component library, and encompassing design and technical documentation.
Developed a systems-driven design & development process for end-to-end design and development for the design system integration.
Established a design token system portable to CSS and Javascript.

UX/UI Engineer at Brainbase

Oct 2018 — Sep 2019

Led product design on Taboola's publisher-focused analytics dashboard, Taboola Newsroom — an application assisting 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.
Created a Sketch UI kit to establish reusable standards around Newsroom application design.

Product Designer at Taboola

Oct 2016 — Feb 2018

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.

Product Designer at Fullscreen Media

Oct 2015 — Jun 2016

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.

Front-End Engineer at Fullscreen Media

Dec 2013 — Oct 2015

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.

UX/UI Designer at Fullscreen Media

Sep 2012 — Dec 2013

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

Expertise

Design Systems
Systems-Driven Design & Development
UI Kits
Component Libraries
UX/UI Design
Prototyping
Iconography

Tools

Figma
Sass & CSS
CSS-in-JS
React
Angular
Typescript
Storybook
Javascript
Git

Education

University of Central Florida

Aug 2003 — Feb 2005

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

Associate of Arts at Tallahassee Community College

Jan 2002 — Jul 2003

Major in General Studies