New York • Austin • Germany

FinTech • Big Pharma • Risk Assessment • Manufacturing • Educational • Learning

FinTech
• Chase
• USAA
• Q2eBanking
• OnePay
• Lincoln Financial

BioTech/Pharma
• Boehringer Ingelheim
• Catalent
• Apricity Health

Computer Technologies
• Apple
• Dell
• Siemens

Business Information
• Stratfor
• Bloomberg BNA

UX Product Design & Research

Product designer specializing in full-time and freelance roles for startups and enterprises companies. I have extensive experience leading UX design projects from MVP to launch, focusing on machine learning and predictive products.

Skilled in desktop/mobile feature development, design thinking, design systems and creating user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, user testing, usability studies, heuristic evaluations, interviews, surveys, user journey maps, benchmarks, and personas, content templates, icons, form design, user-interface [UI] controls, navigation models, design trends. Strong in conceptualization, communication, and teamwork.

Roles: Product Design • UX Design • UX Research • UI Design • Visual Design

Design Thinking + Research + Analytics

  • User Experience Strategy

  • Working with Cross-Functional Teams

  • Translating UX to Business Value

  • Managing Feedback and Adjustments

  • Requirements

  • Analysis & Design

  • Implementation

  • Test

  • Governance

  • Empathize

  • Define

  • Ideate

  • Prototype

• Figma

• Adobe Creative Suite

• Sketch

• Invision

• Mural

• Miro

• Jira

• QualtricsXM

• Adobe Analytics

• Tableau

• Figma • Adobe Creative Suite • Sketch • Invision • Mural • Miro • Jira • QualtricsXM • Adobe Analytics • Tableau

Research

  • End-to-end knowledge of all stages of research

  • Surveys

  • Usability Evaluation

  • Analytics

  • Early-Design Testing

  • A/B & Multivariate Testing

Strategy

  • Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Competitive Analysis

  • Benchmarks

  • Gaps

  • Milestone

  • Planning Matrix

  • Goals Definition

  • What is Success

Facilitating Design Thinking Workshops

Lectures • In Person • Virtual

Austin Community College

Innovation of the future start with training and influencing students on process and technologies that will help define a new path for their entire family. Teaching for more than 15 years is one of the most important things I’ve done in my career.

Lectures • In Person • Virtual

Austin Coding Academy > Dell

Helping to retrain the future of internal corporate staff at Dell. Many companies don’t leverage the asset they already have. Dell has offered custom training to employees looking to venture into new roles in UX Design. This program also offers exposure and understanding of the UX process which helps to improve the corporate communal knowledge.

Applying UX Critical Thinking & Processes

Identify a unique challenge or problem. ...

  1. Investigate the challenge using the inquiry process & apply ideas in the UX.

  2. Explore the ideas and challenge them through collaborative activities. ...

  3. Utilize the inquiry process to refine products.

  • Planning the course description of what, why, how, and how well students should learn UX processes, goals, and deliverables.

  • Outline and communicate information about the UX course or class and define expectations and responsibilities

  • The student-centered approach in which students learn about a subject by working in groups to solve an open-ended problem. This problem is what drives motivation and learning.

  • Blackboard, Canvas, and Adobe Connect

  • Adobe Captivate/Photoshop/Premiere/Illustrator; Camtasia