Good design to me is well executed problem-framing, understanding the objective by breaking it down into solvable parts and returning a product that is a sum of all parts.

I look forward to meeting you and learning how we can collaborate together to improve your users' experiences. Let's connect!

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Experience

Web Designer

Illumina
July 2021 - Present
  • Facilitate front-end content and code updates to the marketing website within AEM
  • Support cross-browser testing at multiple stages of a project utilizing TestCafe
  • Implement design system components to build out new pages
  • Maintain companywide Contact Us single page web app React
  • Tools used (AEM, Git, Github, Jira, VS Code, Docker)

Web Designer

Incubax
January 2021 - July 2021
  • Designed sites, setup e-commerce stores, implemented calendar booking, and employed Woo Commerce, and Elementor frameworks
  • Site redesign, content organization, UI/UX strategy, conversion design
  • Created web scraper using Python to download and parse patient medical records for billing platform

UX Designer

MGN Online
August 2019 - October 2020
  • Created Figma based wireframes to illustrate UI updates and work flow enhancements
  • Converted web application to mobile first UI - design and developed B2C platform (C#, React, Git, Python, Figma)
  • Designed conversion funnels, user flows, support documentation, landing pages and backend requirements
  • Designed/Built UI for cart functionality and integration with Stripe
  • Designed/Built UI for customer dashboard to meet new authorization requirements

Web/UX Designer

BuildCave, Dreamtsoft (independent contractor)
June 2012 - November 2018
  • Lead problem-framing, needs discovery and avatar creation to website and app deployment
  • Built interface designs from lo to hi fidelity prototypes and converted mockups into tangible experiences
  • Designed user flows for each UI process to drive interface actions and improve click-through rate and conversion rate
  • Managed code base with Git and UI designs in Figma
  • Designed UI for drag and drop product comment builder

Web Marketing

Zero Sixty Media/Nomad
May 2016 - August 2018
  • Built landing pages, wrote ad copy, edited images and graphics, managed offer pages and PPC campaigns
  • Managed CBO and ABO for Facebook campaigns & optimization scores for Google ads
  • Deployed all sites using AWS; managed scripts for driving customer conversion and implemented analytic insights

UX / Development

Zibdy Health
January 2014 - January 2017
  • Designed key application functions: UI designs to display data from labs, medical history, and medication conflicts
  • Ran application tests and debugged development and production servers
  • Designed UX for new UI design objectives; developed new feature functionality and data architecture

Adjunct Faculty

Art Institute
June 2014 - October 2017
  • Courses taught: web design, programming, post production photography, user experience & physical computing (Arduino)
  • Objectives: principles of design, avatar research, problem-framing, wireframing, prototyping to proof of concept, user testing, card sorting, A/B testing, Gestalt principles, and applying design feedback
  • Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Arduino IDE, Visual Studio, Processing, Gliffy, and Chrome Dev tools

Skills

Development: Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Experience Manager, Bootstrap, React, mongo DB, Python, JIRA

User Experience: Avatar research, usability lab testing, heuristics, focus groups, card sorting, ethno-graphic research, agile & scrum

Design: Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Figma, Sketch, Autodesk Fusion 360, Excel, Word, Power Point

Education

MA Interaction Design

University of Malmo, Malmo, Sweden
2011

BA Communication

Cal State University San Marcos
2005

Spanish/International Business

University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MX
2002