About Me
I am a UX Design Leader who has learned to lead by example and that clear communication is critical. My background in the highly complex FinTech and defense industries has shaped me into an empathic leader, culture enthusiast, and research advocate.
Plus, I’m a mama to 2 girls and a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback and married to the love of my life. I love getting out on the water, yoga, and adventures with my family!
Skills
Design
Accessibility
Agile Methods
Data-Driven Research
Design Ops
Design Workshop Facilitation (Sprint style)
Persona Creation
User Research (Interviews - Card Sorts - Usability Testing)
Wireframing
Leadership
Team Management
Build Cross-Departmental Relationships for Collaboration and Execution
Interviewing, Hiring, and Onboarding
Mentorship
Design Operations
Storytelling
Public Speaking
Problem-Solving
Experience
Parry Labs - Director, UX & Product Line
2022 - 2023
Manage 4 product managers and mentor designers and front-end developers
Evangelize UX and build up resources to scale within the product line
Scope, streamline, and execute on the Internal Research & Development (IRAD) format through design thinking workshops, resulting in the creation of two 1, 3, and 5 year roadmaps for 2 different products in collaboration with the PM
Drive product design as a consultant with a third party UX Firm to validate their findings and UI design process for battlespace drone products
Heartland Payments Systems - Lead, UX Designer
2020 - 2022
Scaled the team through design ops practices, including interviewing + hiring 5 new designers
Managed a data-driven user research strategy for a future, enterprise-level, payroll web and mobile application
Drove UX creative processes + best practices across business verticals
Clevyr - Sr. UX Designer
2018 - 2020
Strategized and articulate designs from concept to execution with data-driven validation from both qualitative + quantitative user research
Perceptronics Solutions - UX Designer
2016 - 2018
Lead UX/UI scope + scale for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project
Strategized roadmap features and designed a mobile/ web app tool from scratch to production
General Assembly - User Experience Design Instructor
2016 - 2018 (part-time)
Lead UX and human-centered design focused lectures and mentored students
Volunteer
Junior League
2019 - Present
🫶 Volunteer in my local community through action, collaboration, and training with organizations like Remerge (a diversion program for moms) and Pivot (supporting homeless youth)
OKC Design + Tech - Co-Organizer
2018 - 2021
📆 Manage monthly events including sourcing both veteran and new keynote speakers
🪴 Strategize and execute strategy to grow the budding UX/UI design community along with fostering education for UX-adjacent roles, such a graphic designers and developers.
UXOK - Co-Organizer & CHair of speaker committee
2019 - 2021
🎉 Collaborate with design leaders around Oklahoma to bring the first UX conference to the state
📣 Lead speaker committee on blind speaker selection and recruitment for 2 keynotes
Education
D.MBA
Business Strategy and Design Leadership
2023 (Remote)
General Assembly
User Experience (UX) Design Immersion Program
May - July 2016 (Washington, D.C.)
University of Ottawa
Honors Bachelor’s degree in International Politics & French, minor in Italian
2004 - 2008 (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italian Language and CultureItalian Language and Culture
Summer 2007 (Florence, Italy)