UX. All day, everyday.

I am a UX designer, currently working for Slalom Consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since my humble beginnings as a self-taught graphic designer 20 years ago, much of who I am as a designer has changed except for one thing: my inclination towards truly meaningful and impactful design experiences. Whether focused on micro-interactions, visual design elements, or creating prototypes, that curiosity and penchant for understanding the human experience has stayed with me.

Some personal traits that help me in my profession: Highly self-motivated, future-thinking, culture-curious, quick yet thorough, reliable, methodical, persistent.

07/17-Present – Slalom Consulting – Palo Alto, CA
UX Designer
Responsibilities: Some of the clients I have worked for during my tenure at Slalom – Google, Apple, Facebook, PayPal, Visa. As a UX design consultant, we are expected to be generalists which means I pretty much cover the entire spectrum of design, carrying projects from their inception and into product maturity. Some of the responsibilities I’m tasked with are user research & persona development, information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping and user testing.

10/14-07/17 – AAA Insurance – Walnut Creek, CA
UX Designer
Responsibilities: I was first hired as the lead product designer mainly focused on an internal analytics dashboard that AAA wanted to build in-house. I also played a major part in establishing their current pattern library, design system and icon library. My last project there was to redesign their intranet site.

03/13-07/14 – Tout – San Francisco, CA
UX Designer
Responsibilities: I worked with the product team on both mobile and desktop products, and as expected in a start-up, I did a lot of different things: UX design, visual design, information architecture and user research.

09/12-02/13 – Ooyala – Mountain View, CA
UX Design Consultant
Responsibilities: I was hired to design their Android mobile device experiences (phone & tablet) for Pac-12’s “Pac-12 Now” video on-demand product. Interaction design and visual design.

08/07-08/12 – Ipsos – Culver City, CA
I worked in research & development helping shape social media tools that collected quantitative and qualitative data. The tools I helped design are now popular products within the firm’s roster of high-profile clients.
Responsibilities: Visual design, interaction design, wire-framing, html prototyping & front-end development (HTML/CSS3/jQuery).

10/06-08/07 – Contractor – Los Angeles, CA
Web and print design
Responsibilities: Web design, web development (HTML/CSS), print design, technical illustration.
Client List: Black & Decker, Conexant, Suzuki Motors, Alchemy Worldwide, etc.

08/01-09/06 – Freelance Design – Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities: Web Design (HTML/CSS), graphic design & photography for small mortgage companies, day spas, wellness clinics and labeling companies.