Resume
Experience
Root Inc. · Product Designer · August 2021 - January 2022
- Integral member of the internal Claims team, dedicated to improving adjuster workflows so they can better attend to their customers
- Designed a new version of the Liability tool to help improve multi-party fault decisions and gather scenario-based data to help improve automation in the future
- Interviewed a dozen experts to determine gaps in fraud detection in workflows and the software
- Conducted research to inform product roadmap and design decisions
- Collaborated daily with product owners, product designers, and engineers
- Gathered requirements and insights from business stakeholders and experts
ISACA · Senior User Experience Designer · November 2020 - August 2021
- Founding leader of the UX team
- Guided the company through a technology transformation by creating wireframes, mockups, and user journeys
- Designed a new support site to mitigate duplicate tickets, provide status updates to the customers, and make it easier to find relevant FAQ
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements
- Daily collaboration with product owners, business analysts, project managers, developers, and QA
Walgreens · Senior User Experience Designer · August 2018 - November 2020
- Integral part of the Enterprise team, dedicated to improving store employee tools and workflows
- Daily collaboration with product owners, business analysts, project managers, UX researchers, a UI designer, a team of 30 developers, and a dozen QA
- Designed an order fulfillment product for the upcoming drive-thru and curbside pickup process
- Designed a device management product to help Walgreens avoid over $1,000,000 in device replacement costs
- Took over designing the new inventory management app for Walgreens stores
- Led the design of Boots’ beauty clienteling pilot and improved basket size by 25% and overall conversions by 34%
- Designed and managed employee-facing intranet revamp project
- Owned process improvements for deploying new applications to in-store tablets and handhelds via meeting management, documentation, and new application design
- Redesigned the employee-facing photo printing website
- Recipients of Walgreens’ Champion of Champions 2018: Best User Experience Team for our contributions to modernizing store technology
- Created wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, site maps, user journeys, and information architecture for websites and mobile applications
Grainger · User Experience Architect, Zoro.com · March 2016 - May 2017
- Early member of the Zoro.com user experience team, dedicated to improving the website experience
- Daily collaboration with a team of 5 developers, project managers, and an SEO manager
- Expanded the research program to include quantitative tests (A/B tests, card sorts, first-click tests) and remote customer interviews
- Designed and coded A/B tests to determine which design would increase purchases
- Redesigned the homepage to increase traffic to category pages
- Iterated on the shopping cart to assist customers in finding the best deal and related products
- Collaborated with the Grainger legal team to update a flow for purchasing items that could be harmful to users
Overture Promotions · eCommerce Website Manager · October 2014 - March 2016
- Integral member of the eCommerce department
- Improved product data integrity to allow customers to better search for the product they needed
- Founded in-house WordPress ecommerce website initiative to save up to $60,000 per website built
- Designed and built eCommerce websites for Success Academy, CBRE, and Santander
- Redesigned the eCommerce website to improve conversions and SEO
- Coordinated website development efforts between stakeholders, third party partners, clients, and salespeople
Education
DePaul University · Master in Human-Computer Interaction · 2014 - 2016
Florida Atlantic University · Master in Psychology · 2010 - 2014
Bradley University · Bachelor in Psychology · 2006 - 2010
Skills
- A/B testing
- Analytics
- Axure
- Card sorts
- CSS
- Facilitating workshops
- Figma
- HTML
- Information architecture
- Invision
- Miro
- Mobile design
- Photoshop
- Presentations
- Project management
- Public speaking
- Rapid prototyping
- Sketching
- Strategy & vision
- User flows
- User research
- Wireframes & mockups