
About
Lead UX Designer specializing in AI-driven product design, with a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction. Experienced in leading design systems and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable user experiences, and an invited keynote speaker on UX, technology, and innovation.
Experience
Lead UX Designer at Lion Holdings (Valuetainment)
• Led end-to-end UX design across three product surfaces - Performance AI (HR SaaS for AI-driven performance evaluations), Minnect (social media app), and 7 corporate websites - shipping across iOS, Android, and Web. • Initiated and governed 2 design systems (Minnect DS & HireMetrics DS), establishing scalable component foundations adopted across all active product teams. • Managed a team of 2 UI designers, overseeing execution and quality across all workstreams.
Product Design Intern at First American Title
• Spearheaded the end-to-end UX design process for a first-time user onboarding experience, resulting in a development ready interactive prototype tested by 24 participants and refined through Maze iterative usability testing, improving design clarity. • Developed user personas and optimized information architecture, enhancing stakeholder alignment through design critique workshops, while iterating to achieve 87% post-onboarding intent to use. • Contributed to the BlockParty design system by publishing new Google Material Design-compliant iconography, facilitating reusable component design consistency and adoption across 3 cross-functional teams.
Product Design & Artificial Intelligence Intern at RadicalX
• Designed and developed AI-powered products - including an AI Dev Manager, customized learning algorithms, and anti-cheat fraud detection - across ML, deep learning, gen AI, and NLP domains using Figma, OpenAI, TensorFlow, Botpress, and Inworld.ai, while conducting data pre-processing improving model accuracy by 63%.
User Experience Intern (Lead) at Florida International University Mobile App
• Developed a responsive iOS mobile app prototype integrating Scrum methodologies & data analysis with UX product definition, product research, visual design principles, testing methodologies & design patterns at scale to improve the user experience of over 70,000 users with an increased navigational efficiency of 78%.
UI/UX Program Manager at Init
• Instructed the UX/UI program at FIU to 400 students covering user-centered research, accessibility guidelines, wireframes, prototypes, industry trends, & design systems for any iterative digital design solution. • Gathered qualitative & quantitative analytical data insights from user feedback through UX validating methods such as usability surveys and A/B testing to gather insights for product optimization. • Coached the FIU Mobile team in Agile, aligning OKRs & KPIs across cross-functional internal stakeholders.
UX Design Intern at Wyde Technologies
• Owned the full UX design process from specs and prototyping to validation and usability testing - across microsites and landing pages, while developing external partner outreach strategy and communicating the MVP value proposition, contributing to $150,000 in angel investment raised.
Education
Master of Science in Human-Computer Interation (GPA: 4.00/4.00) at DePaul University - College of Computing and Digital Media
Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business and Marketing (GPA: 3.63/4.00) at Florida International University
Skills
Speaking
Keynote Speaker & Judge at ShellHacks 2022
Miami, FL
• Keynote speaker at Florida’s largest Hackathon teaching the software development life cycle & humanity- centered, accessible design. Judged 26 products integrating technology like machine learning and virtual reality.