A little about me

A little about me

EXPERIENCE

Lead Product Designer / Loti Services Inc.

October 2024 - June 2025 / San Jose, CA (Pre-launch phase)

  • Problem: Transformed a nascent product concept into a clear, intuitive, and aesthetically strong user experience for a pre-seed SaaS startup. Solution: Led end-to-end product design, encompassing strategic definition, user flow development, and high-fidelity UI creation. Impact: Established foundational UX/UI, positioning the product for efficient development and positive initial user engagement during the pre-launch phase.

  • Problem: Addressed critical inconsistencies and scalability challenges in a rapidly evolving startup environment. Solution: Architected and implemented a comprehensive design system (HCT color palette, typography, core components) from scratch. Impact: Significantly reduced design debt, accelerated prototype development, and fostered seamless developer collaboration, ensuring consistent, high-quality UX for future growth.

  • Thrived in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment, making rapid, impactful design decisions that balanced creative vision with technical and business constraints to meet key objectives.

Product Design Strategist / Comcast

April 2022 - Present / Philadelphia, PA

  • Problem: Identified critical inconsistencies and inefficiencies within the complex Xfinity app ecosystem (design files, loading patterns, system alignment). Solution: Conducted holistic UX audits to pinpoint areas for improvement. Impact: Ensured greater consistency with strategic customer journey moments and laid groundwork for targeted design enhancements across the platform.

  • Problem: Leveraged extensive user data and research to identify opportunities for significant customer experience innovation within the Xfinity app. Solution: Developed strategic impact maps, detailed user flows, and high-fidelity prototypes. Impact: Informed product strategy and prioritized initiatives, driving a data-driven approach to app evolution.

  • Problem: Guided the strategic direction for the future of a high-visibility, large-scale consumer application. Solution: Collaborated closely with product management and senior leadership to define a clear strategic focus and comprehensive roadmap for the next generation of the Xfinity app. Impact: Ensured alignment across executive and product teams, setting a clear vision for long-term product development.

User Experience (UX) Design Specialist

  • Problem: Streamlined complex Xfinity Mobile sales and product adoption within the app. Solution: Led design for the Xfinity Mobile Trial product and optimized the core commerce flow. Impact: Achieved 20% conversion rates within the first 15 days of launch for the trial product and contributed to 32% of all Xfinity Mobile sales originating within the app, significantly driving business outcomes.

  • Problem: Enhanced smart home security and utility by transforming existing WiFi infrastructure into a motion detection solution. Solution: Led end-to-end UX design and strategy for advanced WiFi Motion features, including Matter integration, focusing on intuitive user control and mobile app optimization. Impact: Achieved a 10% conversion rate for upgrades among 2.1M monthly users (450K daily in-app users), providing a highly valued feature to a massive user base and leveraging existing hardware for new value.

  • Championed user-centered design within Agile sprints, fostering strong cross-functional collaboration with designers, engineers, and researchers. Created detailed design specifications and participated in code reviews, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation and upholding rigorous quality standards across platforms.

  • Elevated design quality and fostered skill development by mentoring junior designers on Xfinity app projects, strengthening team capabilities and ensuring consistent application of best practices.

  • Served as a key design subject matter expert, proactively supporting stakeholders and cross-functional teams (including engineering) with design implementation and clarification throughout the product lifecycle.

Creative Design Strategist / DBC

May 2021 - April 2022 / New York, NY

  • Directed design initiatives for diverse B2B/B2C clients, ensuring design strategy aligned with client business objectives and delivered high-quality results in dynamic environments.

Graphic Design & Brand Specialist / Freelance

May 2020 - April 2022 / United States

  • Developed impactful print, social, and web designs for diverse clients, earning a Cisco Systems' logo design award and providing strategic guidance that connected design solutions to business goals.

EDUCATION

Executive Education in Design

Royal College of Art / September 2024 - April 2025

Bachelor of Architecture

North Carolina State University / August 2019 - May 2020

Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture

North Carolina State University / August 2015 - December 2018

SKILLS

Product: Product Strategy, Product Management, Customer Experience (CX), Agile (Scrum), Project Management, Design Systems, Information Architecture.

UX Design & Research: User-Centered Design, Usability Testing, User Research (Qualitative & Quantitative), UI/Interaction Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Responsive Design, Mobile-First Design, Web Design, Visual Design.

AI & Emerging Technologies: AI Strategy, Generative AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Notion, Deepseek-R1), RAG, Prompt Engineering, AI Safety, Ethical & Responsible AI, Mitigating Bias, AI Risks & Compliance, Red Teaming, AI Verification, Leading with AI.

Tools: Figma (Expert), Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD), Sketch, Miro.

Business & Strategy: Market & Brand Strategy, Data Analysis, Cross-functional Collaboration, Stakeholder Management, Problem Solving.

Technical Familiarity: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

CERTIFICATIONS

Business Foundations Specialization

University of Pennsylvania / In progress

Courses in specialization:

Introduction to Operations Management, Introduction to Corporate Finance, Managing Social and Human Capital, Introduction to Financial Accounting, & Introduction to Marketing

Codecademy

Coding programs at Codecademy / 2021 & 2025

Courses:

Navigating AI Ethical Challenges & Risks (in progress)

Code Foundations, Generative AI for Everybody, Leading in the Age of Generative AI, Ethical Prompt Engineering with Deepseek-R1 (completed 2025)

HMTL, Responsive Design, CSS, Color Design, Navigation Design (completed in 2021)

Pendo Product Management

Six Product Management courses at Pendo / 2024-2025

Courses completed:

Product Analytics, Product-led, AI for Product Management, Digital Adoption, Radical Product Thinking, & Product Management Basics

DeepLearning AI

AI for Everyone: foundational AI course focuses on Generative AI, Responsible AI, & AI Strategy / 2024

Google Career Certificates

Learning programs at Google / 2024 & 2025

Courses completed:

Google Agile Essentials: Project management, product management, Agile Project Management, Waterfall Methodology, Scrum, & cross-functional collaboration

Google AI Essentials: Critical thinking, AI tools, iterative thinking, problem solving, prompt engineering, AI harm, responsible AI, & generative AI

Google UX Design: Usability studies, Figma, Adobe XD, prototyping, sketching, ideating, UXD, UXR, & wireframing

Comcast Leadership

Activate Growth: Leadership program at Comcast / 2022

IBM Enterprise Design Thinking

Enterprise Design Thinking programs at IBM / 2020 & 2024

Courses completed:

Enterprise Design Thinking Team Essentials for AI: AI, critical thinking, design thinking, problem solving

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner: Design thinking, empathy, UX, user-centric design, & UXR