About & Experience

Get to know me: I'm fueled by a love for words, design, justice, 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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For a comprehensive résumé, please contact me.

Professional Experience

Director of Operations

Industry: Nonprofit Management

2025-Present

  • Developed & documented SOPs, systems, & workflows to streamline operations in startup environment

  • Administrated IT infrastructure, Google Workspace, & digital tool adoption

  • Developed brand & visual identity assets, ensuring consistency across web & marketing channels

  • Designed and maintained organization website and digital presence, ensuring accessibility and usability across devices

  • Created and optimized digital forms, workflows, and internal tools, streamlining volunteer onboarding and reducing administrative workload

  • Applied information architecture principles to organize digital assets, enabling consistent cross-team collaboration and faster project turnaround

  • Partnered with board members, volunteers, and stakeholders to align technology, design, and branding strategies with organizational goals

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

  • Created company SEO & web optimization style guide

  • Consulted and educated cross-functional teams on UX and SEO best practices

  • Researched SEO keywords and cataloged backlink, anchor text, and FAQ content

Digital Content Specialist

Industry: Screen Sharing & Digital Signage Software

2018-2021

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

  • 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

  • Created competitive analysis and campaign, tested competitor products and developed sales enablement content

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

Director of Communications

Industry: Small Business

2017-2018

  • Created multi-channel content strategy and calendar

  • Wrote and edited copy for web, email, print, signage, and customer communications

  • Wrote and designed promotional materials, POP displays, and marketing collateral

Director of Communications

Industry: Nonprofit Management

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

  • Content manager, wrote web copy, blog content, and video scripts

  • Developed editorial calendar, content marketing strategy, and brand promise

  • Interviewed students and donors for appeal letters and content marketing stories

  • Wrote and designed story-based ads, e-blasts, event and marketing collateral

Certifications

  • Google UX Design Certification

  • IDEO Human-Centered Design

  • UX Writing Hub

  • HubSpot SEO

Courses

  • UX Content Strategy

  • Systems Thinking for Product Design

  • UX & Information Architecture

  • AI for UX Design

  • AI for UX Research

  • Inclusive Design Principles

  • Accessibility in UX

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

  • Bachelor of Arts, Creative Writing

  • Magna cum laude

  • Dean's List

Stack

  • Figma

  • Adobe Creative Suite

  • HubSpot

  • Framer

  • GreatQuestion

  • Jira

  • Miro

  • Confluence

  • Google Workspace

  • ChatGPT

  • Magic Patterns AI

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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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