
As a senior UX designer, I leverage product strategy, UX, service design, and design research to make meaningful product impact. I have a degree in Human Centered Design & Engineering and spent the past 4 years growing my strategic UX toolkit professionally. I've valued diversifying my experience both in-house, delivering 0 to 1 MVP products and tackling big design questions across tech, medical, and finance sectors.
Before I dove into human centered design, I had a past life in molecular biology. I spent three years studying natural sciences and working in research labs because understanding the physiological systems behind our daily life and asking big questions gave me energy and made me feel more connected with the human experience. I made the leap from natural science to Human-Computer Interaction because it connected my systems thinking and research-based curiosity with a collaborative and creative medium for solving problems with and for people.

A relic from my past life working in cardiovascular research labs


Collaborating with students for a Google Cloud sponsored Hackathon

Facilitating co-design workshops in Dublin, Ireland
Education
B.S. Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
Graduated cum laude
Focus in Human-Computer Interaction
A college of engineering degree with strong foundation in designing user experiences and interfaces, creating information visualizations, conducting user research, designing for the web, and building web technologies.
Visual Communication • Client Side Web Development • Information Visualization • UX Research • Technical Communication • Interactive Systems Design • Advanced HCI • Design Entrepreneurship • Directed Design Research
Work experience

Smart Design
Senior Interaction Designer
Interaction Designer II
2022-2024
UX design lead for a diverse range of strategy and interaction design projects. Notable clients include Google, Meta, Capital One, and SC Johnson.
Co-design • Design Strategy • Service Design • UX Concepting

Best Buy Health
UX Designer
2020-2021
UX design lead for a 0 to 1 MVP web portal for emergency device management.
Design Systems • Agile • JIRA • Usability Testing • Figma • KPIs • Web

NerdWallet
Product Design Intern
2020
Co-led design research and UX for the development of a centralized internal resource platform for a 60-person design team.
User Interviews • Journey Mapping • IA • Competitive Analysis

Best Buy
UX Design Intern
2020
UX design lead for the onboarding experience of the retail mobile app with 3 million monthly users.
Rapid Prototyping • Heuristic Eval • Product Alignment • Mobile Apps

UW School of Nursing
Freelance UX Designer
2020
Led the redesign of a web application for a grant funded tuberculosis treatment management tool.
Usability testing • IA • Design Systems • Mobile Apps
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