User Experience Designer — Freelance

July 2025 – Current

• Independently ideated responsive concepts and designs for various mobile and web-based projects
• Communicated directly with B2B clients to integrate user-centered design principles and practices
• Analyzed design debt and developed time-saving solutions to mitigate impact

User Experience Designer — Emerson

January 2024 – April 2025

• Deliver new and improved feature design for the Everest project. Collaborate with stakeholders, SMEs, and impact partners to shape the user interface and experience for the Everest product.
• Fully integrated into the Everest project team, participate in sprint ceremonies, design reviews, and deliver design solutions.
• Incorporate tablet UI components into the web-first Emerson Design System to ensure consistency across platforms and products.
• Led Figma Design and Figma Dev Mode training sessions for development and PSS design teams, enhancing collaboration, and design efficiency.

User Experience Designer — Contractor — Lessi.ai

July 2024 – November 2024

• Led the design of a user interface for Lessi.ai.
• Created high-fidelity prototypes for core navigation, lesson plan builder, and content capsule library.

User Experience Designer — Contractor — Cambium Learning

July 2023 – December 2023

• Designed user-centered features for Accounts Management interface while supporting design system integration.
• Owned the implementation of an accessible discussion/wiki platform across team departments.

User Experience Designer II — Strata Oncology

August 2021 – September 2022

• Overhauled the primary method of test submission, resulting in a dynamic modular design with collapsible summary view.
• Built, implemented, and defined the currently operating design system.
• Partnered with engineering team members to establish expectations for design-to-development handoff during project collaboration.

Pendo Administrator Certification 

Pendo Headquarters, Raleigh, NC 

Master of Prof. Studies, User Experience Design

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Expanded Media 

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 

User Experience Design Team Lead — Tech Fleet

April 2021 – August 2021

• Led the design team of the Rawlings Conservatory Website throughout the 6-month project with agile project management practices.
• Mentored apprentice designers by moderating and facilitating workshops with the larger project group and the client team.

User Experience Designer Team Member — Tech Fleet

August 2020 – April 2021

• Collaborated on interface designs influenced by quantitative and qualitative research results through collaboration with the user research team.