Accessibility for Web Design

Private Aircraft Pilot

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Associate of Arts (A.A.)

At DocuSign, we're committed to helping make people more agreeable. My role in this vision to support and maintain our initial shared CSS library, while providing a foundation and long-term strategy for a new design system based on our updated brand. While in this role, I have:

• Refreshed and modernized our Sketch libraries to take advantage of symbols and nesting structures, leading to improved efficiency for designers to find and build with the pieces they need (validated through NPS survey)

• Conducted interviews with the product design team to get a better understanding of successes and pain-points when working with or engaging the design system. From this list, I was able to synthesize some core hypothesis and develop strategies to improve scores, such as refactoring the design library and improving communication.

• Established cross-functional support with our brand team for laying the foundations of our new design system, including typography, iconography, and color

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Product Designer

At DocuSign, we're committed to helping make people more agreeable. My role in this vision to support and maintain our initial shared CSS library, while providing a foundation and long-term strategy for a new design system based on our updated brand. While in this role, I have:

• Provided direction and guidance for the team on delivering an initial set of core components (10) within Q1 of 2020. We outpaced our initial goal and ended up delivering 23 components in that timeframe. I designed and delivered 12+ components from that initial list. We have ultimately delivered our initial Phase I list of 33 components, allowing for migration between systems to begin.

• Solved a communication gap between the design system efforts and the wider product team by developing a "component popup" that allows anyone interested (designers, developers, PMs, etc) to attend a short presentation of a handful of heavily used components, detailing their current design and use cases, as well as walking thro

Senior Product Designer

As part of the Design Systems team at LinkedIn, I work horizontally across all our products to assist collaboration and help accelerate quality builds at massive scale. This work ranges from understanding accessibility design concerns (including color contrast and element sizing) to creating comprehensive specs for engineering handoff. In addition, I maintain our iconography and illustration library across the entire company, including identifying areas where our system lacks coverage, understanding how our members can benefit from the affordance of iconography, and how our illustrative library can help designers build a compelling story.

Promoted from Associate User Experience Designer, March 2017

User Experience Designer

At LinkedIn, I am one of many who work to connect the professional world with opportunity. I've had the pleasure of working on a vast array of projects, some of which include presentation deck design, internal initiative branding, and product iconography and illustration.

Associate User Experience Designer

Turned a student-only design position into a full-time salaried position through determination, self-education, and opportunity. Created yearly recurring and unique print and digital material for 10+ on-campus departments. Worked as part of a small team to organize and operate a grand opening event for 1,000+ students. Installed and created content for a brand new digital signage system and pioneered multiple signage projects. Took ownership of a variety of projects and helped shape the overall look and feel of marketing materials at Sonoma State.

Graphic Designer

Designed a series of illustrations including character design and key art for Pick Up & Play's Aliens Need Burgers game. Designed sets according to concept storyboards that were used for the intro movie sequence.

Freelance Illustrator

Product Design Manager

Curious designer with 8+ years experience in building and scaling design systems.

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