Who I am

Innovative and collaborative User Experience (UX) Designer focused on building accessible user-centric designs and foundational cohesion throughout the user’s experience. I am skilled in identifying and solving for gaps within the design system, providing design documentation, guiding design contribution, structuring library file organization, and establishing asset guidelines. Demonstrated accomplishments in leveraging the foundation of a strong design library to create consistent, 508-compliant design systems, and user-friendly products.

Accomplishments

Created, organized, and maintained design library assets using atomic design principles for 3 design systems.

Built and implemented communication processes with the development team through design sync meetings, internal communication software, and designer-to-developer handoff templates using developer language.

Initiated the cross-pollination of PowerSchool’s marketing and UX design team to rebuild user trust through consistent design threads between pre-login and product login.

Identified the need and implemented a product workflow audit process for a 40+ product suite to define multi-use case workflow requirements.

Implemented design system contribution templates and worked with designers and writers to deliver a refined component contribution process with clear design guidelines.

Developed design system office hours for product designers to receive design system compliance guidance prior to broader team design reviews.

Experience

Senior UX Designer
PowerSchool (Hoonuit Acquisition) October 2020 – January 2024
Responsible for: PowerSchool’s: Unified Insights (priorly known as Hoonuit/EdVantage) K-12 educator data analytics and student intervention user experience, an accessible design library, leading the communication processes with developers, collaborating with developers to build PowerSchool’s design system, providing design documentation, guide design contribution processes, design library file organization, establish asset guidelines, design custom icons and Iconology, support the design team with figma guidance

Senior UX Designer
Hoonuit (Formerly Atomic Learning) June 2017 – October 2020
Responsible for: K-12 educator data analytics and student intervention user experience, Hoonuit’s design library, leading the communication processes with developers, providing design system documentation, designing the design library file, establishing design guidelines, designing Hoonuit’s custom icon library

UX Designer
Atomic Learning, January 2015 – June 2017
Responsible for: Creating Atomic Learning’s first design system and guidelines, delivering mobile app workflows, online educator tools, data visualization for educator analytics, data dashboard layout, actionable workflows based on analytic findings

Graphic & UX Designer
A Simple Design, April 2002 – March 2015
Responsible for: Web development, software ui, mobile application development, corporate identity packages, corporate signage, print media, ASI promotional products