Experience

Podium

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Product Designer

  • Apr 2022 - Present



Fandom

• United States
• Technology, Information and Media
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Staff Product Designer

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Working on community wiki authoring products and personalization initiatives. Launched updated global wiki experience across 30 Million pages of content. Designed and shipped new theming tools, on-boarding flows, and system components; enabled new dynamic theming capabilities. Design lead on content discovery & engagement efforts. Working on community wiki authoring products and personalization initiatives. Launched updated global wiki experience across 30 Million pages of content. Designed and shipped new theming tools, on-boarding flows, and system components; enabled new dynamic theming capabilities. Design lead on content discovery & engagement efforts.



Inkling

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior UX Design Manager

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2020

  Managed team of UX designers, UX Research, and UX Technologists. Implemented UX technologist role to better align product & engineering initiatives. Overhauled design process for better Agile workflow support. Design lead in customer and user research on product pivot strategy, shaping product road-map.

• Principal Designer

  • Dec 2017 - Sep 2020

  Principal designer for flagship learning, and workforce management products. Principal designer and implementation lead for design system. Lead system wide UI overhaul with an emphasis on WCAG compliance.



Ancestry

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Product Designer, DNA

  • Apr 2014 - Dec 2017

  Designed and shipped four new flagship products in new and established markets to over 4 million users; 2 patents granted. Design lead in early ideation and requirement gathering, design partner in regulated user research and testing and final polish. Design lead in collaborative team with data science & genetics to design queries and shape ontological systems for users, user data, and UGC. Member of recruiting and mentor cohort for internship program. Designed and shipped four new flagship products in new and established markets to over 4 million users; 2 patents granted. Design lead in early ideation and requirement gathering, design partner in regulated user research and testing and final polish. Design lead in collaborative team with data science & genetics to design queries and shape ontological systems for users, user data, and UGC. Member of recruiting and mentor cohort for internship program.



Ancestry

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Designer

  • Dec 2011 - Apr 2013

  End-to-end designer on core family history product team, rolling product to over two million annual users, working closely with Director of User Experience. Junior project manager for core product team, conducted user interviews and usability testing sessions, art directed creative treatments for public facing support materials on experimental main-stream product. End-to-end designer on core family history product team, rolling product to over two million annual users, working closely with Director of User Experience. Junior project manager for core product team, conducted user interviews and usability testing sessions, art directed creative treatments for public facing support materials on experimental main-stream product.



Utah Valley University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Designer, Marketing

  • Jan 2007 - Aug 2011