Resume
Experience &
Education
10+ years designing and scaling complex digital platforms across fintech, eCommerce, media, healthcare, and travel — from zero-to-one startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.
Experience
Where I've Worked
Lead UX Designer
2024 — PresentVML
- Lead UX strategy across 2 Agile pods for enterprise-scale platform serving 10M+ monthly active users, driving a 22% improvement in core task-completion rates
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define roadmap priorities, translating business KPIs into measurable design outcomes
- Mentor a team of 4 UX, UI, and research practitioners, establishing design critique cadence and career development frameworks
- Shipped platform-wide navigation and IA redesign that reduced user drop-off by 18% across key conversion funnels
Founder & Product Design Lead
2024 — PresentNAAS, LLC
- Founded design consultancy advising Series A–C startups and Fortune 500 enterprises on UX maturity, design systems architecture, and product strategy
- Deliver end-to-end product design engagements from discovery research through production handoff, averaging 35% faster time-to-market for clients
- Architect scalable Figma-to-code workflows that reduced design-to-engineering handoff friction by 40% across client organizations
Lead Product Designer
2024DubClub · Series A Startup
- Founding designer for 0-to-1 social audio platform that scaled to 2M+ users across iOS and Android within 18 months
- Designed core engagement loop (discover → join → share → return) achieving 94% task-completion rate and 3.2x Day-30 retention vs. industry benchmarks
- Built unified cross-platform design system (45+ components, 120+ tokens) that accelerated feature velocity by 60% and maintained visual consistency across 3 platforms
- Led user research program — 30+ interviews, usability studies, and A/B testing — that directly shaped product-market fit strategy and drove a 4.7-star App Store rating
Lead Product Designer
2023 — 2024Audible · Amazon
- Redesigned the internal content metadata pipeline serving 500K+ audiobook titles across all global markets, reducing per-title processing time by 60% (12 min → under 5 min)
- Consolidated 7 legacy operator tools into a unified title-management interface, eliminating context-switching overhead and driving internal NPS from 23 to 78
- Designed real-time validation engine with market-aware rule sets that reduced customer-facing metadata errors by 40%
- Led phased rollout strategy with parallel-run validation, bi-weekly operator feedback sessions, and instrumented workflow metrics to de-risk the transition
Senior Product Designer
2022 — 2023Walgreens
- Redesigned enterprise product card system across web, mobile web, and iOS serving 100M+ monthly pharmacy and retail customers
- Developed cross-platform interaction patterns that unified the shopping experience and improved product card engagement by 28%
- Advanced design system governance from ad-hoc to structured — established contribution guidelines, component audit cadence, and adoption tracking across 6 product teams
UX Designer II
2022 — 2023Expedia Group
- Optimized checkout flows across Expedia's $100B+ travel bookings platform, driving measurable improvements in conversion through iterative A/B testing
- Redesigned payment selection and form input interactions, reducing checkout abandonment and improving data capture accuracy
- Partnered with Product and Data teams to develop, validate, and ship incremental UX improvements using experiment-driven methodology
Earlier Experience
2016 — 2022Navy Federal Credit Union · Fannie Mae · AARP · Accenture Federal Services · PenFed
- Navy Federal Credit Union — Designed digital banking experiences for the world's largest credit union (13M+ members, $165B+ in assets)
- Fannie Mae — Led service design and journey mapping for mortgage servicing platforms supporting a $4T portfolio
- AARP — Conducted user research and designed digital engagement experiences for 38M+ members
- Accenture Federal Services — Delivered UX strategy and design for federal government digital transformation initiatives
- PenFed — Designed consumer-facing financial product interfaces for a top-5 U.S. credit union
Education
Background
BFA Industrial Design
Savannah College of Art and Design
Class of 2012
Front-End Web Development
General Assembly
2018 · HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Core Strengths
- Platform & Ecosystem Design
- Design Systems Architecture & Governance
- Zero-to-One Product Development
- Growth & Conversion Optimization
- Content Discovery & Information Architecture
- Checkout & Transactional Flows
- Executive Stakeholder Alignment
Toolkit
Tools I Use
Design
Figma, FigJam, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin, Framer
Development
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Swift/SwiftUI, VS Code, Xcode, Git
Research & Data
Maze, UserTesting, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Mixpanel
Process
Jira, Confluence, Notion, Linear, Miro, Agile/Scrum, SAFe