My experience

WORK HISTORY

Samsara

May 2023 - Present

Senior Product Design Manager

  • Led AI-driven design initiatives leveraging CV, ML, and IoT to enhance safety and prevent accidents for end users, delivering impactful user and business outcomes

  • Partnered with VP-level product and engineering leaders to launch best-in-class experiences that improved user safety and satisfaction

  • Managed a team of six designers (Staff to Junior) with a growth-focused leadership style, creating career ladders and fostering professional development

  • Enhanced team efficiency through refined systems and processes, driving consistent delivery of high-quality design solutions

Senior Product Design Manager

  • Managed global team of eight managers and product designers building enterprise work collaboration software, focused on search, navigation, IA, and onboarding

  • Led strategic product initiatives supporting company OKRs across multiple pillars, resulting in delivering Northstar visions with incremental end-to-end implementation

  • Established UX partnerships with director and VP-level cross-functional partners that impacted hiring three additional designers, and UX-led Northstar experiences

  • Launched career ladders with core competencies and individual attributes for all levels of product designers that enabled hiring, promotions, and salary equity

Product Design Manager

  • Hired and managed team of six product designers focused on mobile apps, growth platform, navigation and established foundational team for IA

  • Facilitated design workshops, critiques, and key stakeholder reviews for strategic initiatives across teams, establishing broader UX engagement across the company

  • Founded mobile-specific design system, driving UX-led milestones and goals to decrease development time, drive consistency, and enable non-mobile designers

  • Developed processes for a 60+ global, remote-first UX team that defined deeper collaboration and reduced knowledge silos. Led and created co-design process, developed team onboarding, pair designing, and feedback mechanisms.

Senior Product Designer

  • Led design integration post-merger of Slope and Smartsheet ensuring cohesion with systems in nine months, launching inaugural product at annual customer conference

  • Successfully drove human-centered design processes, championed accessible design standards, and built scalable and reusable systems across multiple pillars, including Proofing, Machine Learning, and Home

  • Led culture of learning by developing mentorship framework for 20+ designers and researchers, led to increase in team participation with mentorship and local teaching

  • Mentored senior- and mid-level designers, focused on storytelling, prioritization, and stakeholder management, with consistently positive signals on their growth

Smartsheet

Jan 2019 - Oct 2022

Lead UX Designer

  • Developed human-centered design process for Slope, aligned product and business teams with UX processes as sole designer to create a highly researched and rapidly iterated web app that was acquired by Smartsheet

  • Collaborated on a strategic Northstar vision with product management and engineering, delivering on an agile workflow to deliver iteratively on the vision

  • Created a brand identity and design system for product launch

Slope (acquired by Smartsheet)

Jan 2016 - Jan 2019

UX Designer

  • Collaborated directly with clients, project managers, and engineers while leading human-centered design approach, creating ecommerce and ticketing sites and apps

  • Led research and facilitated workshops that informed design strategy and direction

  • Created interactive prototypes and high-fidelity user interface designs to run usability testing and deliver to partner teams

Adage Technologies

Aug 2013 - Jan 2016

Graphic Designer

  • Designed and built the front-end of B2B microsites for enterprise clients

  • Designed brand identity collateral, print materials, and presentations for enterprise B2B sales and marketing clients

Quicksilver Associates

May 2012 - Aug 2013

TEACHING & COMMUNITY

Seattle Women of Design & UX
Co-Founder, 2017 - 2024

Developed community of 3,600+ local and remote UXers. Organized, planned, and ran regular workshops and events with different hosts, speakers, and sponsors with a strong focus on advocating for and enhancing the visibility of women and non-binary people in the UX industry.

School of Visual Concepts
Instructor and Mentor, 2019 - 2024

Developed course materials and interactive exercises that effectively educate about a human-centered UX process, taught and demonstrated practical application of UX principles.

Computing for All
Program Developer and Instructor, 2020 - 2022

Built partnership with CFA and Smartsheet leaders to create CFAs first 8-week UX Design program, developed and run by the Smartsheet UX team, and a pilot internship program.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

People leadership and management

Product strategy and vision

Scalable design processes

Career mentorship

Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding

Developing and fostering team culture

Community organization

Teaching

UX SKILLS

Workshop and sprint facilitation

Prototyping and usability testing

Interaction design

UI design

User research

Stakeholder management

Storytelling

Systems thinking

Cross-functional team collaboration

Business and market strategy

SPEAKING & WRITING

Designing for Enterprise vs Consumer Experiences
Speaker and moderator - 2023

UX Career Crossroads: Manager or IC?
Speaker and moderator - 2022

Ladder jumping in UX: A practical guide to making the leap from UX designer to UX manager
Bootcamp article - 2021

A Framework for UX Mentorship
Bootcamp article - 2021

Career Growth Through Community Involvement
UX Cake podcast - 2020

Enhancing Design with Data
Speaker and moderator - 2020

EDUCATION

Loyola University Chicago
B.A. in Visual Communication
B.A. in French