Experience
Nearside
Senior Product Designer
June 2022 - Present
San Francisco, CA
Led cross-platform design for several high-value features that helped bring the Nearside checking product into feature parity with competitors
Collaborated with product and design on forward-thinking product features
Contributed to the expansion of the Nearside design system and internal design operations
Compology
Lead Product Designer
April 2017 - March 2022
San Francisco, CA
Compology is a software and hardware solution that helps Fortune 100 companies and governments meter their waste to eliminate inefficiencies and drive toward their sustainability goals while reducing waste costs.
First product design hire at the company, reported directly to the co-founder and Chief Product Officer
Created the complete design system for the Compology customer-facing web application from the ground up, balancing product, engineering, and business needs
Led user research and design for all major features of the Compology customer-facing web application and internal operations tools, including waste metering, dashboard, customer/location management, and dumpster monitoring features
Planned, refined, and implemented our end-to-end user research practices which increased the number of research projects we were able to do, and decreased our time to completion
Collaborated on a brand redesign with the internal marketing team and an external design team at Mackey Saturday
Co-founded the Compology DEI committee, led diversity and inclusion surveying/analysis, planned company-wide cultural events, and coordinated facilitation by outside DEI consultant Change Cadet
August Home
Senior User UX/UI Designer
January 2015 - April 2017
San Francisco, CA
August creates award-winning smart-home access products, giving customers unprecedented visibility and control over their front door.
Designed several major features of the August customer-facing mobile application including setup and onboarding flows for the August Smart Keypad (the first accessory product to the August Smart Lock) and the activity feed
Planned and executed user research and usability tests, including ethnographic studies with an external research team
Implemented several large-scale changes to the tools and processes used by the design team, which saved additional team resources
Envision Media
Graphic Designer
December 2008 - August 2014
Santa Cruz, CA
Designed presentations, interactive demos, digital and print marketing collateral for Fortune 100 technology companies
Education
Academy of Art University
Master of Fine Arts, Interaction & UI/UX Design
2014/2015 MFA Valedictorian
2011 - 2014
San Francisco, CA
University of California, Davis
Bachelors of Science, Design and Visual Communications
2004 - 2008
Davis, CA