About & Experience

Get to know me: I'm fueled by a love for design, justice, infrastructure, coffee, and movies. All the movies.

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Years ago while doing nonprofit work, I took a course on human-centered design from IDEO. It felt like my world expanded — I knew then I wanted to make stuff real people find useful.

A few of my strengths

  • Cross-functional collaborator

  • Receptive communicator

  • Experienced project manager

  • Clear, effective writer

  • Detail-obsessed

  • Distills complex concepts into digestible info

  • Design thinking

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Professional Experience

UX Designer

Industry: A/V Streaming Software & Hardware

2023-2025

  • End-to-end strategy, research, & design of B2B SaaS products: desktop, web, & native hardware

  • UX writing & content lead — responsible for all copy & content on apps & digital products

  • Shipped products: earned 200+ weekly users, & .52% increase in usage since launch

  • Designed & wrote user onboarding experiences, wizards, & product tours

  • Created low- & high-fidelity wireframes & mockups using Figma, XD, Miro

  • Used & contributed to in-house design system

  • Led PM, ideation, & user-centered design sessions with engineering, product, support, & business teams

  • Conducted user research, interviews, usability & prototype tests, optimized designs using data

  • Analyzed, presented, & made design decisions from user behavioral analytics & research findings

  • Created user journey maps, user flows, & golden paths for numerous personas

  • Led adoption, implementation, & training of new product onboarding & UX research study tools

Content & SEO Strategist

Industry: A/V Streaming Software & Hardware

2021-2023

  • Wrote & edited copy for SaaS products, websites, menu navigation, buttons, in-app marketing pages

  • Interviewed users, participated in research studies & simulations to inform product development

  • Created sketches & wireframes for websites & key feature sections in web apps

  • Owned & created content strategy & editorial process for SEO, copywriting, video, website, blog

Digital Content Specialist

Industry: Screen Sharing & Digital Signage Software

2018-2021

  • Wrote/edited UI text & microcopy for B2B SaaS product menus & user onboarding wizards

  • Pitched, wrote, & designed UI for digital signage editor product

  • Tested/edited UX copy & SaaS product functionality across mobile & desktop devices

  • Created multi-channel content strategy, editorial process, & managed all inbound content

  • Wrote & managed tech blog, grew audience by 1,906% with 108,000 avg. monthly views

  • Designed, optimized, tested, & proofed marketing content, web pages, blog, & email content

Director of Communications

Industry: Small Business

2017-2018

  • Created multi-channel content strategy, owned website, social, email, and print media channels

Director of Communications

Industry: Nonprofit

2016-2017

  • Conducted interviews for digital stories, owned & managed all web, blog, email, video content

  • Applied design thinking concepts & empathy-driven research to develop user-centered programming

Certifications
& Courses

  • Google UX Design Certification – Google

  • Human-Centered Design – IDEO

  • UX Writing Essentials – UX Writing Hub

  • Figma for UX Design – LinkedIn

  • UX Content Strategy – LinkedIn

  • Systems Thinking for Product Design – LinkedIn

  • UX & Information Architecture – LinkedIn

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology – 2016

  • Bachelor of Arts, Creative Writing – 2016

  • Magna cum laude

  • Dean's List

Stack

  • Figma

  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • HubSpot

  • Framer

  • GreatQuestion

  • Jira

  • Miro

  • Confluence

  • Google Workspace

For a comprehensive résumé, please contact me.

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Some of my favorites

99% Invisible podcast
Problemista movie poster
What Went Wrong podcasat
The Martian by Andy Weir
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Alien movie poster
Aladdin Sane by Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
Interstellar movie soundtrack by Hans Zimmer

And my cat Yam, of course.

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