Work experience

Senior UX Designer, Google

2021 - Present

Senior UX Designer in Google Cloud

Senior Product Designer, IBM

2013 - 2021

Senior Product Designer for Watson Discovery and Watson Assistant, two of IBM’s AI enterprise solutions.

• Work with product management and engineering leadership to drive product strategy and roadmap to meet key company objectives, while evangelizing for the user

• Lead the process to define the user experience to deliver on the product’s objectives

• Distill complex problems into solutions that are usable and valuable to our users, using techniques including story mapping, user flows, wireframes, etc.

• Break down user experience vision into end-to-end valuable slices to deliver

• Tightly collaborate with leads from product management, engineering, design research and product research throughout the entire process of strategizing, problem solving and delivery

Designer, ShowClix

2011 - 2012

Spearheaded all digital design efforts for a rapidly-growing online ticketing startup. Designed new services section for company website, resulting in dramatically increased sales leads within weeks

Designer, Brunner

2007 - 2011

Worked on cross-disciplinary teams to successfully facilitate projects from conception to launch, ranging from websites, social media efforts, interactive presentations and mobile apps. Instrumental in the agency adoption of UX best practices; designed wireframes and user flows for large-scale projects

Education

Carlow University

B.A., Art/Interactive Media, 2007
Honors: Magna Cum Laude

American University of Rome

Study abroad program, Art/Art History, 2006

Awards

Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award Finalist

2020, Watson Discovery

IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award

2019, Smart Document Understanding