Product Design Leader with experience delivering user-centered digital products across B2B and B2C platforms. Proven ability to lead end-to-end design, mentor teams, and collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership.
Strong background in mobile and web design, accessibility, design systems, and data-driven decision making.
Education
Master of Science, Interaction Design — NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts / Graphic Design — Western Connecticut State University
Training
Certification in WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards from Deque
Training in A11Y (A11y Friend)
Design Tools: Figma (Make/Figjam), Miro, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, InVision, Axure, After Effects
Front end development: HTML, CSS / SASS, CMS (Drupal, WordPress, FatWire)
User Research & Testing: Interviews, Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Analytics, Qualtrics
PM | Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, Asana, SharePoint
Additional: Fluent in Spanish; Video Production; Arduino; Processing
Professional Memberships
Member - IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation
IxDA NYC Chapter
AIGA NYC Chapter
Management Accelerator - HLMA from McKinsey & Company
Leadership Institute Business Strategy Certificate - McKinsey Academy
Certificate in Design Leadership — Cooper Institute
U.S. Bank
(Assistant Vice President, Product Design)
New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
Jan 2021 – August 2025
Led end-to-end product design across digital channels, partnering with design, engineering, and leadership to deliver personalized, science-driven customer experiences.
Contributed to the Design System Team to the transition from a legacy System (in Sketch) into new Figma component, to then create a foundational Design System in Figma with corresponding documentation in Zeroheight.
Moody’s Analytics
(Senior User Experience Designer)
New York, NY • April 2020 – November 2021
Led the design strategy for ESG analytics platforms, guiding the transition from legacy Excel-based reporting to scalable web applications with multi-level permission access.
Mini-Circuits
(Principal Product Designer)
New York, NY • May 2018 – April 2020
Led the redesign strategy for a global eCommerce platform, delivering responsive experiences, modernized checkout flows, and international-ready solutions.
Weill Cornell Medical College (UI/UX Designer - Front end Engineer)
New York, NY • January 2012 – September 2017
Designed and migrated enterprise CMS platforms, creating wireframes, prototypes, and UI guidelines for faculty and student portals.
Designed the re-branding and 50th anniversary didactics, including: Bus fleet, logo,
mapping, signage.
Write public releases, maintain public engagement with the community and media.
Manage marketing budgets for all regional efforts for public transportation alternatives
through Television ads, Radio, social media, public meetings, fundraising events,
community engagements, public and private sector transit and commuting alternatives
engagement.
Exceeded the reduction of the marketing budget by over 50%, and was able to re-invest
the gained revenue in further marketing transportation campaigns.
awards & recognition
VIP Member, National Women’s Transportation Seminar
Official Translator, City of Danbury
Housatonic Area Regional Transit (Marketing & Public Relations)
Danbury, CT • April 2002 - 2008
awards & recognition
American Graphic Design Magazine Winner
WCSU Alumni Art Show Winner
Previous Roles
NY Stock Exchange – User Acceptance QA
Rodale (Prevention/Parenting Magazines) – Photo Editor / Designer
Housatonic Area Transit – Marketing / PR Coordinator / Principal Designer
Marketing Drive US – Art Director (Braun and Duracell accounts)
Ethan Allen Inc. – Multimedia Designer
Seminars
Email Campaign Strategy
Marketing for Public Transportation
Conferences
SXSW (South by Southwest) - Austin TX
An Event Apart - NYC
IxDA - Toronto CA