CENGAGE // BOSTON User Experience Designer // October 2021 - Present Main projects: e-commerce checkout redesign (B2B, B2C), international products, student experience, purchase and access rework Define the balance between a beautiful interface with an intuitive, and easy to use experience. Create mockups and clickable prototypes for regular usability tests and internal weekly critique sessions. Attend and participate in regular user studies to validate product concept and designs, then iterate on designs based on customer feedback. Act as “go to” with in-depth knowledge of user experience and user interface best practices and standards for engineering and product management. Associate User Experience Designer // March 2020 - October 2021
FRONTSTREAM // CAMBRIDGE User Experience Designer // March 2018 - March 2020 Produce workflows, wireframes, and prototypes of user interfaces. Work with developers and product managers to meet product objectives and sprint commitments in an Agile environment. Build clickable prototypes. Contribute and assist in managing of the design system library.
PEARSON EDUCATION // BOSTON Graphic/User Experience Designer // November 2016 - March 2018 Prototype low-fidelity and high-fidelity mockups of k-12 programs as well as user flows and information architectures. Develop design concepts with the editorial department. Incorporate editorial and marketing/sales feedback into deliverables.
TRIPADVISOR // NEEDHAM Brand/Experience Design Intern // Summer 2015 Collaborated with the marketing department for website relaunch, redesigning sections and homepage aesthetics. Developed t-shirt designs to be used as promotional item for an international consumer market. Constructed global campaigns in multiple languages.
Volunteer Experience
AIGA BOSTON Mentor // 2021-present Meet biweeky with an emerging designer to help navigate the job search, refining their portfolio & resume, providing a safe space to talk about challenging and advice on the new landscape of the corporate world.
AIGA BOSTON Co-director of EMERGE // 2018-present Co-organize the mentorship program with 50 one-to-one pairs. Work with the programming team to organize design related events throughout the year.
TALK UX CONFERENCE Volunteer Coordinator // 2018 Helped coordinate all volunteers for a two day UX conference in Boston that had 400 attendees and full day of session and workshop.
Education
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY MS in Interactive Media with concentration in UX Design BA in Interactive Digital Design
