dbt Labs | Staff Product Designer | August 2022 – Current | Data Transformation
- Led design for all scheduling and orchestration products, cost monitoring, and some enterprise auth and security projects
- Designed the job, environment, and continuous integration flows to enable users leverage best practice implementation strategies, increase accuracy, and reduce initial setup time.
- Released a cost monitoring solution that allows customers to dive into spend and savings in external accounts to understand the true cost of transformations.
- Built out AI agent platform for use across multiple products.
- Contributed to the design system in both Figma and code.
- Top design contributor during multiple rounds of accessibility audits.
- Built out full light/dark mode color token system and helped convert entire experience over across app, web, and email during a brand refresh.
- Set up templates for refactoring component documentation to create clear guidelines
Sisu Data | Senior Product Designer | January 2022 – July 2022 | Business Intelligence
- Designed a metric catalog for better visibility into data, improved dimension management with filter logic for input, and designed full integration workflows for streamlining the import of data.
- Revamped icon library and provided design support for an updated design system in React.
- Implemented new documentation site to support customer-facing knowledge base and release notes, with a developer-facing, auto-generated API site.
Airhouse | Product & Operations Manager | June 2020 – November 2021 | Logistics
- Led product team to support a web app for all-in-one ecommerce fulfillment.
- Onboarded, trained, and coordinated with fulfillment partner network (8 locations).
- Developed onboarding and customer success flows with supporting internal and external documentation.
Airhouse | Senior Product Designer | May 2019 – June 2020 | Logistics
- Designed the web app for all-in-one ecommerce fulfillment mentioned above ↑
- Improved inventory and order workflow and designed entirely new bundling, purchase order, returns, settings, billing, and integrations sections.
Compute Software | Senior Product Designer | September 2017 – April 2019 | Cloud Computing
- End-to-end design of a SaaS web-app from onboarding to reporting with a supporting documentation site built from scratch with Jekyll.
- Assisted developer in implementation of designs via front-end (CSS and Clojure).
- Met with customers and design partners to collect user feedback on product experience and features in order to inform the roadmap.
Genability | Product Designer | June 2014 – June 2017 | Clean Energy
- Designed and developed a suite of products for clean energy providers and installers.
- Included a B2B energy rate explorer, quote tools with generating savings reports, developer documentation, and supporting white label demonstration apps.
- Supported products for 8/10 top solar developers in the US, major electric utilities, and growing battery storage providers.
Greenstart | Visual Designer | January 2013 – January 2014 | Venture Design Agency
- Designed websites and mobile applications for start-ups inside a VC/design firm.
- Assisted with user research and business strategy presentations.
California College of the Arts | BFA in Graphic Design | December 2013
Skills | Product Design, Development & Management
- Product design - Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite
- Front-end - HTML & CSS/SaSS with light Clojure, React, Javascript
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