My professional journey

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Experience

Lead UX Designer

Frontier Internet/Verizon

Jul 2022 - Jun 2026
  • Leveraged AI-powered design workflows in Figma to quickly prototype, iterate, and deliver pixel-perfect digital experiences within established brand guidelines and design system parameters.
  • Expanded Frontier's modular design system, creating reusable components that facilitated future AI-driven content generation workflows.
  • Designed and optimized Frontier's eCommerce cart experience via usability testing insights, increasing engagement from 3% to 5% after launch.
  • Conducted data-driven optimization of UI elements via A/B testing and AI-powered content exploration for messaging, increasing user engagement by nearly 20%.
  • Implemented targeted user experiences through Sitecore's "personalization" capabilities, delivering region-specific content strategies previously unused by Frontier.
  • Improved website usability and performance metrics through ongoing UX optimization, increasing conversion rates from 8% to 10%.
  • Designed reusable UI components, including banners, modals, and content cards, that increased user engagement by 10% across Frontier's Enterprise and Small Business web and app platforms.
  • Conducted usability testing via the UserTesting platform.
  • Established innovative AI-powered research and design workflows to improve efficiency.
  • Standardized design practices and adopted emerging AI-driven UX methodologies.
  • Collaborated closely with front and back-end engineering squads to improve site performance, reducing latency by 5% and load times by 8%.
  • Worked with product managers to analyze user behavior and optimize content strategy, increasing click-through rates across Frontier's commercial web properties.
  • Led the design and launch of high-profile marketing landing pages.
  • Used AI-powered analytics and optimization (via Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT) to create the highest-performing campaign web page on Frontier's Small Business site, increasing business fiber internet sales by almost 10%.

UX Designer

Southern Methodist University

Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
  • Created engaging user interfaces and web experiences that raised advertising impressions by 12% (5.5M to 6.2M) and increased conversions by 13% (32K to 36K).
  • Designed and launched over 20 featured web stories, the most successful of which increased click-through rates from the home page to the Admission website by 25%.
  • Responsible for SMU's partnership with Boston-based digital studio, Upstatement, which was chosen by leadership from a pool of hundreds of local and national agencies, to overhaul SMU's website design, a nearly $1M project.
  • Led the rollout of a new website design system, a game-changer for SMU's web presence, which saw overall home page engagement skyrocket from 10% to 15%.
  • Worked closely with developers and interdisciplinary creative teams, other schools and on-campus organizations, to re-introduce SMU's digital presence using said design system framework.

Website Consultant

Thryv

Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
  • Web copywriting, SEO, and UI/UX design.
  • Managed web content using a proprietary CMS platform and custom coding.
  • Worked closely with small to medium-sized businesses to design websites that satisfied their business needs.
  • Launched over 150 websites, the most successful of which increased traffic by 30%.

Freelance Web & UI Designer

Self-employed

Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
  • Designed and developed custom, high-quality websites and digital assets.
  • Created user-friendly interfaces and web concepts.

Skills

Interaction

User research Journey mapping Wireframing Prototyping User testing Design systems AB testing

Visual

Graphic design Sketches Photo editing Vector design

Software

Figma Adobe Suite Google AI Studio Figma AI ChatGPT Claude

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Communication Technology

The University of Texas at Arlington

2014 - 2016

Focus on user experience and interface design.

Certifications

User Experience Design Certificate

Southern Methodist University

Issued Jun 2019

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