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