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Resume

Work
Experience

06/2022 – Present

UX Designer, Truss

  • Working with government sector clients on unemployment insurance modernization

  • Conduct user research to gain a better understanding of needs and to design and test solutions

  • Participate in product and design discussions with the team, and ultimately collaborate with teammates to create experiences focused on user needs

  • Part of a cross-functional project team consisting of two user experience designers, a product manager, and engineers

11/2021 – Present

UI/Product Designer, Waste Management

  • Engage daily as part of a Scrum team with product owners, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders to deliver new features while adhering to our design system and brand standards

  • Produce high-quality visual designs and prototypes with strong attention to detail

  • Maintain design documentation of components for AEM developers, stakeholders, and content designers

  • Participate in all stages of the visual design process from concept to build with engineers

  • Use atomic design to build reusable components across our website and contribute to our design system

06/2020 – 08/2020

UX Designer, SparkNerds

  • Conducted user research for the creation of a new e-commerce website launching in Austin

  • Facilitated a Lean UX Canvas session with main stakeholders to understand business assumptions and form hypotheses

  • Interviewed users, analyzed, and affinity mapped interview data

  • Generated user research artifacts like users personas, user stories, user scenarios, user journeys, and user flows

  • Created wireframes for priority screens

  • Designed Lo-fi interactive wireframes in Figma

08/2018 – 5/2021

Design Teaching Assistant, Texas State University

  • Taught undergraduate design courses: Typography I and II

  • Facilitated critiques and UX research sessions

  • Gave demos on Adobe CS software & binding methods

  • Lectured on design fundamentals, editorial design, and typography

10/2016 - 05/2018

Graphic Designer, Museum of Latin American Art

  • Co-designed & maintained the museum's new website

  • Conceptualized and designed the museum's temporary exhibition identities and large events like yearly gala and cultural festivals

  • Designed and produced a wide range of collateral including environmental graphics, social media graphics, brochures, invitations, signage, wayfinding, print and digital ads, annual reports, quarterly calendars

  • Coordinated the production and delivery of materials with print and other vendors as needed

  • Assisted with the creation and maintenance of workflow
    schedules and timelines as needed

Education

2018 - 2021

Texas State University | Master’s Degree (Design)

  • Courses: UX Design, Interaction Design, Social Impact Design, Experience Design, Corporate Marketing Materials, End of Life Studies

  • 4.0 GPA

  • Merit-based Fellowship Recipient (2018)

  • Merit-based Scholarship Recipient (2021)

2011 - 2015

California State University | Bachelor's Degree (Illustration)

  • 3.5 GPA

  • President’s List (Fall 2011)

  • Dean’s List (2012)

  • Arts Bridge Scholar (2011)

  • Biomedical Illustration (Certificate)

  • 24 Hours Animation Competition Finalist

Awards & Published Work

  • Grief & UX: Become a Death-Sensitive Designer, 2021, Women in Design, Ideate Lab

  • Redesigning Grief: Digital Design's Impact on Grieving Online and Its Responsibility to Improve the Experience, Alkek Library, Texas State University, 2021

  • School of Art & Design's Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2021)

  • AIGA Flux Student Design Competition 2020 (Social Impact Category)

  • Graphis New Talent Award 2020 (Branding Honorable Mention)

  • Showcase 2020: Juried Student Work from the M.F.A. Program in Communication Design (2nd place)

  • Call and Response: Equitable Design FrameWork Design Incubation Colloquium, 6.3: Fordham University, 2020

Volunteer Experience

2021

Austin Design Week

Volunteered for the sixth annual Austin Design Week. ADW offers a variety of free workshops, talks, and presentations hosted by Austin creatives and showcasing the best in Austin design.

2019

AIGA Changemakers

The AIGA Austin Changemaker Series unites teams of creative professionals with nonprofits and social Change Organizations to use design thinking, participatory design frameworks and creative tools to help advance their mission. Our multi-disciplinary team worked with Black Mamas Community Collective to help advance their mission of lowering morbidity and mortality rates of black mothers in the Central Texas region.

2019

Design for America (DFA)

DFA is a national organization of student-led chapters who use design thinking and human-centered design to work on community problems. Our chapter worked on the issue of mental health for high school students in the Central Texas area. I also helped organize the inaugural expo to show our chapter's work.

2016 – 2017

Forge 54

DFA is a national organization of student-led chapters who use design thinking and human-centered design to work on community problems. Our chapter worked on the issue of mental health for high school students in the Central Texas area. I also helped organize the inaugural expo to show our chapter's work.

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