My professional journey

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Experience

Lead UX Designer

Frontier Internet - A Verizon Company

Jul 2022 - Present
  • Design cart buy flow experience and user workflow that raised user engagement from 3% to 5% post launch.
  • Conducted modular AB tests, analyzing and implementing findings, resulting in a 12% increase in user engagement, traffic, and click-through rates.
  • Test various UI elements (i.e. CTA buttons) to determine language that received more engagement, improving user interactions by nearly 20%.
  • Improved overall web performance metrics, increasing conversions from 8 to 10%.
  • Designed UI elements like alert banners, modal windows, and other modular components that increased overall web traffic by 5% on both the Enterprise and Small Business web properties.
  • Collaborate with back and front-end devs to improve site performance (load times and latency) by 8%.
  • Design and lead the rollout of various landing page campaigns to promote new products and services, the top performing landing page drawing nearly 10% more users than any other page on the small business site.

UX Designer

Southern Methodist University

Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
  • Created engaging user interfaces and web experiences that raised advertising impressions by 12% (5.5M to 6.2M) and increased conversions by 13% (32K to 36K).
  • Designed and launched over 20 featured web stories, the most successful of which increased click-through rates from the home page to the Admission website by 25%.
  • Responsible for SMU's partnership with Boston-based digital studio, Upstatement, which was chosen by leadership from a pool of hundreds of local and national agencies, to overhaul SMU's website design, a nearly $1M project.
  • Led the rollout of a new website design system, a game-changer for SMU's web presence, which saw overall home page engagement skyrocket from 10% to 15%.
  • Worked closely with developers and interdisciplinary creative teams, other schools and on-campus organizations, to re-introduce SMU's digital presence using said design system framework.

Website Consultant

Thryv

Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
  • Web copywriting, SEO, and UI/UX design.
  • Managed web content using a proprietary CMS platform and custom coding.
  • Worked closely with small to medium-sized businesses to design websites that satisfied their business needs.
  • Launched over 150 websites.

Freelance Web & UI Designer

Self-employed

Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
  • Designed and developed custom, high-quality websites and digital assets.
  • Created user-friendly interfaces and web concepts.

Skills

Interaction

User research Journey mapping Wireframing Prototyping User testing Design systems AB testing

Visual

Graphic design Sketches Photo editing Vector design Video editing

Software

Figma Adobe XD Sketch Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop GitHub Claude Cursor AI

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Communication Technology

The University of Texas at Arlington

2014 - 2016

Focus on user experience and interface design.

Certifications

User Experience Design Certificate

Southern Methodist University

Issued Jun 2019

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