education
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Bachelor of Science, Graphic Communication
Concentration in UX/UI Design
Interdisciplinary minor in Ethics, Public Policy, Science, and Technology
experience
Product Designer
Upperstudy
Designed speculative OS at Bedrock, updated design system at Teal, and created marketing landing page for Paramark's analytics SaaS.
Bedrock (Speculative OS)
Served as primary designer on a novel internet-native operating system concept.
Led user research synthesis, defined information architecture, and designed a sidebar file browser that made an infinite canvas intuitive to navigate.
Produced mockups and prototypes to test new paradigms for organizing and sharing files across cloud and local sources.
Teal (Career SaaS)
Established and scaled a new design system, modernizing legacy branding and aligning product UI for feature parity with market leaders.
Designed new workflows addressing core user pain points in job search and career growth.
Paramark (Marketing Analytics)
Designed and developed a high-converting marketing landing page using Framer, aligning product positioning with brand standards.
November 2022 – September 2023 ※ Remote
Motion Designer
Circle K International, Cal-Nev-Ha District
Motion design for conference.
Remote & Running Springs, CA ※ May 2021 – November 2021
UX Design Intern
Dwolla
Designed a new interaction pattern that cut client onboarding time by 50%. Collaborated cross-functionally to discover problem spaces and ideate solutions.
Designed a new interaction pattern that cut client onboarding time by 50%, conforming to legal requirements while balancing user needs.
Partnered with developer advocates to build a testing sandbox that explained a complex API to developers.
Conducted usability and accessibility audits of the design system; advocated for improvements that shipped in production.
April 2021 – September 2021 ※ Remote
UI/UX Designer
Circle K International, Cal-Nev-Ha District
Founded the organization’s first UX role to improve member-facing digital tools.
Designed a mobile convention app for 700+ live attendees, iterating design in tight feedback loops with developers.
May 2018 – April 2020 ※ Remote
Intern
Cal Poly, University Graphic Systems
Inventory management system and equipment research.
Designed paper inventory management solution with user feedback to optimize for usability and speed.
Researched printing equipment and evaluated repairability.
Fall 2019 ※ San Luis Obispo, CA
Editorial Designer
Circle K International, Cal-Nev-Ha District
Editorial design for a conference program.
May 2019 – November 2019 ※ Remote & Sonora, CA
Graphic Designer
Circle K International, Central Coast Division
Graphic design for ads and apparel.
May 2018 – March 2019 ※ Remote & San Luis Obispo, CA
Boba-rista
Labobatory
Customer experience and food preparation at a boba shop.
Customer experience (customer service, taking orders, point of sales).
Food preparation (making tea drinks, basic cleaning, preparing ingredients).
June 2018 – August 2018 ※ San Gabriel, CA
Ice Cream Swirler
The Pond
Customer experience and food preparation at an ice cream parlor.
Customer experience (customer service, taking orders, point of sales).
Food preparation (making ice cream mix, basic cleaning, preparing ingredients).
January 2018 – August 2018 ※ Arcadia, CA
Communications and Marketing Lead
Circle K International, Pasadena City College Chapter
Graphic design, branding, and marketing.
Created graphics system for ads, email campaigns, and presentation decks.
Designed event ads weekly.
Increased attendance of a large-scale event by 10% with effective marketing and branded promotional material (website, social media ads).
April 2017 – March 2018 ※ Pasadena, CA
President
Circle K International, Pasadena City College Chapter
Lead a community service club of > 50 members.
Oversaw an executive council of five, collaboratively leading a community service-oriented club of over 50 members.
Empathized with members to create an ideal club experience.
Increased membership retention by 50% year-over-year.
Earned the Distinguished President Award.
April 2017 – March 2018 ※ Pasadena, CA
Committee Member
Pasadena City College, Associated Students, Public Relations Committee
Graphic design for ads.
October 2016 – June 2017 ※ Pasadena, CA
UI Design Intern
iDigBrand
UI for hotel booking system and accompanying promotional graphics.
Designed multilingual website UI and print + web banner advertisements for the launch campaign of an American hotel company’s booking system for Chinese audiences on WeChat, iterating on feedback from stakeholders.
Summer 2016 ※ Diamond Bar, CA
Graphic Designer, Video Editor
Apache News
Branding, graphics, journalism, video editing.
Established an unprecedented unifying brand and collateral (lower-thirds, advertisements, and graphics).
Produced, edited, anchored, or reported for seven episodes of a weekly video news show broadcast to the entire campus of over 4000 students and published online.
August 2015 – June 2016 ※ Arcadia, CA
Committee Member
Key Club International, Cal-Nev-Ha District, Graphics Committee
Graphic design for ads.
July 2015 – March 2016 ※ Remote
Publicity Commissioner
Key Club International, Arcadia High School Chapter
Graphic design for ads, editorial design for a monthly newsletter and weekly meeting agendas.
April 2015 – March 2016 ※ Arcadia, CA
product thinking
UX design
usability testing
user research
UI design
Figma
Sketch
Adobe Creative Cloud
(Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, XD, Acrobat)
HTML, CSS
Webflow, website builders