CV (Curriculum Vitae)

I possess expertise collaborating with both local and globally dispersed teams within an agile framework. My track record includes successfully delivering enterprise and consumer-facing products. I am adept at partnering with developers and product owners, guiding the entire product development lifecycle—from conceptualizing ideas on the whiteboard to delivering polished applications

Jan 2021

• Formulate a vision for the UX design strategy across various product streams, ensuring alignment with cross-functional teams, technology leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Proactively navigate through ambiguity to understand customer needs and craft experiences that are simple, clear, and compelling.
• Lead the development of design solutions grounded in user insights, business requirements, and industry trends to drive positive business outcomes.
• Spearhead a comprehensive design process, design system, and design language implementation across teams and products.
• Stay abreast of technological and UX advancements, guiding the team in exploring and experimenting with innovative technologies and methodologies.
• Advocate for the Regional Product Strategy with global stakeholders and Product Owners.
• Identify and implement cross-regional efficiencies, driving impactful change.
• Contribute to fostering a Design Culture and Community at Bayer Digital Farming.

Dec  2017 - Jan 2021

• Supported administrative management for a global design team of 50+, handling application access and support.
• Created Standard Operating Procedures and documentation.
• Managed systems and designated user access for team members and collaborators.
• Developed a design system for internal and external teams, documenting standards and best practices.
• Quickly provided solutions and patches for teams within the design system.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes and solutions.
• Implemented strategies for risk mitigation.
• Evangelized the design system and best practices.
• Developed courseware for utilizing the design system.
• Documented user flows and tasks, designing internal widgets and libraries to accelerate design cycles.
• Advised stakeholders on approach, facilitated workshops and learning sessions.
• Conducted user research on target audiences for courses.

April  2017 - November  2017

• Conducted internal and external user research, creating a research strategy.
• Documented information needs, hypotheses, and research methods.
• Developed effective research approaches within constraints.
• Set objectives from user research for interface development.
• Synthesized data for development initiatives, simplifying and translating user and business requirements.
• Presented findings for stakeholder buy-in.
• Developed dashboards focused on individual user groups.
• Documented user flows and tasks, designed and developed wireframes based on user research and client needs.
• Advised stakeholders on approach, wrote user stories and scenarios.

September  2016 - March  2017

• Conducted user research 
• Eliciting requirements
• Identify and prioritizing technical and functional requirements for users
• Translating and simplifying requirements 
• Presented findings and User Experience objectives 
• Synthesized data from user research for development initiative 
• Designed a new application flow for optimized user productivity 
• Created wireframes based on user stories and personas for optimized experience 
• Updated design of existing application 
• Designed hi-fidelity mock-ups in Photoshop for subject matter experts approval 
• Produced clickable prototypes 

June  2016 - September  2017

• Created wireframes 
• Developed clickable interactive prototypes 
• Produced graphics for web-based applications
• Designed hi-fidelity mock-ups in Photoshop for subject matter experts approval
• Developed personas and user journeys 
• Optimized designs based on stakeholders feedback  

October  2015 - March  2016

• Restructured application architecture for optimized user experience 
• Designed interactive prototypes 
• Optimized images for responsive web applications 
• Wrote user stories and added clarity for developers 
• Developed hi-fidelity mock-ups in Photoshop for subject matter experts approval 
• Developed front end interfaces from design mock-ups using HTML and CSS
• Optimized designs based on user feedback  
• Created wireframes from user stories 
• Worked with product owners to create user stories and groom backlog 

May  2013 - May  2015

• Conducted usability testing with client users and reported usability results
• Usability results showed design interface and user flow was successful. 
• Supported projects from military nuclear, chemical, and biological threat detection
• Designed and developed wireframes based on user stores and user acceptance criteria
• Developed hi-fidelity mock-ups using Adobe Photoshop 
• QA tested screens for look and feel and correct user flow 
• Conducted A-B testing and usability testing with users

February  2011 - April  2013

• Based on storyboards provided by subject matter experts, animated online training text books using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash
• Designed and created interactions to engage learner
• Created scenario based e-learning using Action Scripts in Flash and XML
• Incorporated user feedback into development

• Figma
• Sketch
• Abstract
• Photoshop
• Illustrator 
• InDesign
• Inivision  
• Keynote
• Omnigraffle 
• Microsoft Office 
• HTML & CSS
• JavaScript
• Android 
• iOS