Summary
Experience
Senior UX Designer - Tuition.io
2020 - Current
Head of User Experience
- Complete redesign of the end-user experience, client-facing experience, & internal tools experience from concept mockups to pixel perfect high fidelity designs
- Spearheaded innovation for multiple profitable new products including Public Service Loan Forgiveness & Paid Time Off conversion.
- Facilitated cross-functional stakeholder sprints between Design, Sales and Engineering to create shared ownership and consensus for company product vision and marketing tactics
Senior Visual Experience Designer - Google via Cognizant Digital Solutions
2019 - 2020
On Assignment @ Google
- Promoted to Cognizant employee within the same Google training team
- Visual Design Lead, collaborating and managing a team of 6 other designer
- Added responsibilities include R&D, UX/UI design, prototyping, and testing
Visual Designer - Google via Codeforce360
2018 - 2019
On Assignment @ Google
- Design custom multimedia content for Google’s Users & Products team
- Primarily supporting Instructional Design training teams and e-learning platforms.
- Animations, graphics, vector illustrations, infographics, user interface design, localization imagery, and iconography, etc.
Designer – Independent Contractor
2018 - 2019
Creative content; clients include:
- CWKeller, Autodesk’s SF Technology Center (‘Pier 9’)
- Trilogy Education
- Scalyr - (contract via Aquent)
Creative Technologist/ Design Engineer – Concreteworks
2017 - 2018
- Digital Fabrication PM for custom Architecture projects involving 3D computational modeling and mold productio
- Prepared digital fabrication budget proposals, CNC department/Advanced manufacturing
- Oversaw installation of software and equipment, like their 25 foot long 5-Axis CNC mill
Creative Technologist/ Digital Fabrication – Kreysler & Associates
2013 - 2017
- Digital fabrication Lead - Oversaw CNC department for Custom Architecture production
Graphic Designer – RAC Design Build
2012 - 2013
- Company branding for Design-Build Studio in Los Angeles specializing in commercial adaptive reuse
- Creative marketing promoting construction processes - promotional films, print material, and other digital product
Production Artist/Designer – Film & T.V.
2011 - 2013
- Art department production Hollywood - commercials, still shoots, television series, and independent movies (uncredited)
- Props, Set Design, Concept Design, Visualization studies with Production Designers and Art Directors both on and off set
Education
SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA — MArch
Sept 2008 - Sept 2011
World-renowned center of innovation and Architectural Thinking
CSULB, Long Beach, CA — BFA
Sept 2004 - June 2007
Emphasis in Drawing & Painting - Cum Laude (3.8 GPA)
UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco — Certification
April 2018 - July 2018
Immersive Full-Stack Web Development Coding Program
General Assembly, San Francisco — Course
April 2018 - July 2018
User Experience course
Focus
Product Design
User Experience Design
User Interface Design
User Interaction Design
Visual Design
Web & Mobile Design
Systems thinking
Design thinking
Research & Development
Tools
Adobe CC (Illustrator,
After Effects, Photoshop, etc)
Sketch
Figma
Invision
Cinema 4D
Maya
3D modeling
3D printing
3D scanning
Rhino
Powermill
Geomagic
CNC Kuka robots
After Effects, Photoshop, etc)
Sketch
Figma
Invision
Cinema 4D
Maya
3D modeling
3D printing
3D scanning
Rhino
Powermill
Geomagic
CNC Kuka robots
Coding
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery
Github
APIs
JSON
Command line
MySQL