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Experience
Director of Product Design, Product Growth   June 2021 - present

CNN+, New York, NY

  • Leading Growth Product Design, focused on the upcoming launch of CNN's direct-to-consumer streaming experience, CNN+

  • Building a team of Product Designers, UX Writers, and Visual Designers to work across acquisition, conversion, and retention work streams
     

Director of Product Design  June 2020 - June 2021
CNN, New York, NY

  • Leading product design efforts across the CNN digital experience, with a focus on reimagining the offering within CNN Business.

  • Designing best-in-class, deeply interactive experiences that make investing and market data easier to understand.

  • Spearheading a Design Mentorship Program, with a goal of building connections across our design organization and leveling up our collective skillsets.
     

Director of Product Design   July 2019 - June 2020
Prudential, Newark, NJ

  • Leading the redesign of the websites of 8 PGIM businesses (business that collectively hold over $1.3 Trillion AUM).

  • Managing the relationship with our agency partner and their design deliverables, while simultaneously managing the needs of each business unit’s senior stakeholders.

  • Assuring the delivery of a beautiful, sensible design system that can grow and scale with the PGIM brands.
     

Director of User Experience   August 2018 - July 2019
Red Ventures, Charlotte, NC

  • Leading, mentoring and empowering a team of Mid and Senior UX Designers, while shaping how the team and roles are structured within the larger organization

  • Define creative process for cross-functional collaboration and ideation, and generate global adoption of the process

  • Planning and facilitating Co-Creation Sprints to tackle large projects and gain alignment across position groups

  • Continuing to drive user experience strategy and process – including usability research, analysis, user persona creation, journey and channel mapping, card sorting, wireframes and more

  • Continuing to create and execute detailed wireframes for desktop and mobile platforms
     

UX Lead   February 2018 - August 2018
Red Ventures, Charlotte, NC

  • Leading, mentoring and empowering a team of Mid and Senior UX Designers, while shaping how the team and roles are structured within the larger organization

  • Define creative process for cross-functional collaboration and ideation, and generate global adoption of the process

  • Planning and facilitating Co-Creation Sprints to tackle large projects and gain alignment across position groups

  • Continuing to drive user experience strategy and process – including usability research, analysis, user persona creation, journey and channel mapping, card sorting, wireframes and more

  • Continuing to create and execute detailed wireframes for desktop and mobile platforms


Senior UX Designer   August 2016 - February 2018
Red Ventures, Charlotte, NC

  • Drove user experience strategy and process – including usability research, analysis, user persona creation, journey and channel mapping, card sorting, wireframes and more

  • Created and executed detailed wireframes for complex user flows for both desktop and mobile platform


Senior Product Designer   March 2014 - July 2016
XO Group, New York, NY

  • Led visual design for The Bump brand, website and apps (iOS and Android)

  • Developed and maintained the brand style guide

  • Played an driving role in UX and Product process


Senior UI Designer   December 2012 - March 2014
delivery.com, New York, NY

  • Led and executed a complete rebrand of delivery.com

  • Created a new mobile and desktop shopping and checkout experiences


Web Designer   September 2011 - December 2012
Weight Watchers, New York, NY

  • Designed onboarding flows for new members as well as email marketing templates

  • Created interactive digital experiences for simulating various dining experiences

 

Education

Cornell University 2019
Online Leadership Certificate

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Miami Ad School 2009-2011
Graphic Design & Art Direction, MIA/BOS/NYC

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Villanova University 2005-2009
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Villanova, PA
Major: Marketing, Minor: International Business
Concentration: Honors

 

Skills

UX and UI design, design thinking, creating user journeys, e-commerce, developing personas, prototyping experiences, user testing, optimizing for mobile, mentorship

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Programs

Figma, Sketch, Invision, Miro, Userzoom, UserTesting.com, Flinto, ProtoPie, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office

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