Experience

Bloom Works Public Benefit LLC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Design Researcher

  • Sep 2022 - Present



Freelance

• Freelance UX Design

  • Aug 2021 - Present

• Product & Experience Design

  • Nov 2015 - Present



Highline Public Schools

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Middle School English Teacher

  • Aug 2021 - Present



Seattle Academy

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Middle School English Teacher

  • Aug 2017 - Jul 2021



The Evergreen School

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Middle School Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2017



Qeepsake

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor, Product & UX Design

  • Nov 2015 - Jan 2017



SapientNitro

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• User Experience Design Manager, Freelance

  • Jan 2016 - Aug 2016



Ground Signal

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Apr 2015 - Oct 2015

  Led product vision & implementation of B2B location-based audience platform following the platform's soft launch in February. Continuously elicited feedback from the business, sales team, customer success lead and existing customers to inform product direction. Collaborated closely with the business, creative and technical teams to drive product design and development. The product has grown to support over 30 customers including major brands such as Coca Cola and Loews Hotels, as well as agencies including MMGY and Momentum. Show less

• UX Design Consultant

  • Feb 2015 - Apr 2015

  Created detailed wireframes to support product design and development. Worked closely with product team, design and marketing to facilitate product development and iterate on designs.



Self-Employed

• Cambridge, MA

• Freelance User Experience Designer

  • Aug 2013 - Feb 2015

  Developed strategic roadmaps & products for clients such as PPG, Philips, an online university and local apartment rental start up. Worked closely with business stakeholders and customers to understand and prioritize customer needs, inform priorities and support detailed designs. Developed strategic roadmaps & products for clients such as PPG, Philips, an online university and local apartment rental start up. Worked closely with business stakeholders and customers to understand and prioritize customer needs, inform priorities and support detailed designs.



Summa Technologies

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UX Design & Design Strategy

  • Aug 2011 - Aug 2013

  Served as the strategic design lead on interdisciplinary tech consulting engagements to address B2B/B2C products, internal applications and IT roadmaps. Led workshops with business stakeholders and customers to inform opportunities and priorities for product roadmaps as part of the discovery phases of projects. Used initial discovery learnings to inform detailed UX design through process maps, wireframes and user research and recommend future phases of work. Clients represented a broad range of industries including finance, automative repair, higher education, death care, architectural paint and more. Show less



Carnegie Mellon University Rowing Club

• Pittsburgh

• Community Outreach Lead

  • Mar 2011 - Aug 2012

  Explored opportunities for the CMU Rowing Club to have a positive impact on the community. Identified and established partnerships with organizations like Gwen's Girls and created programs that leveraged the student-athletes tutoring and mentoring experiences. Designed and led a digital photography program in the Gwen's Girls summer camp to help the girls explore and represent ideas about how to improve their communities. Girls completed various activities about their own neighborhoods and then took photos at a nearby park, neighborhood and animal shelter to illustrate these concepts. For the final project the girls worked in groups to create themed posters using the photos they had taken. The posters were displays as part of a local piece rally. Designed, proposed and led homework and STEM-based group activities with Gwen's Girls through Google Community Grant funding. Show less



Carnegie Mellon University Rowing Club, Community Outreach Lead

• Pittsburgh

• Google Community Grant Recipient

  • Sep 2011 - Mar 2012

  Proposed and received a Google Community Grant to have the Carnegie Mellon University Rowing Club support STEM-related after school activities with Gwen's Girls, a Pittsburgh-based non profit that provides various services to girls from disadvantaged neighborhoods. The program had CMU rowers work with the Gwen's Girls after school participants to 1) provide homework help and 2) facilitate hands-on STEM activities that were led by Assemble, a community arts and technology spaces. Girls worked with the CMU rowers to design websites, build models of their dream homes and learn to code using Scratch. Both Google and Gwen's Girls were extremely happy with program. Show less