Completed Quests

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PREVIOUSLY

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

June 2018–October 2024

San Francisco, CA

UX Portfolio Lead| PwC - Tax    2024

  • Led UX strategy for 6+ products across separate Corporate Tax and Specialty Tax portfolios, prioritizing and delegating design requests, improving efficiency by 20%.
  • Evaluated and refined tax technology products with business stakeholders, conducting research to understand tax teams’ operations & unifying experiences across the portfolio.
  • Coached 6 designers in monthly 1:1 check-ins, empowering them to independently manage stakeholder relationships, lead design initiatives, and apply user-centered principles to their work.

Lead Product Designer| PwC - Sightline, Core Platform    2023

  • Directed the creation of a UX interaction playbook for AG Grid adoption, empowering designers with reusable patterns to improve consistency and reduce design iteration cycles, accelerating delivery across 15 PwC Tax products.
  • Coordinated collaboration with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to translate business and technical requirements into user flows and design tasks, contributing to the migration of 80k legal entity records and the creation of a single source of truth for entity data across PwC Tax.
  • Facilitated weekly design critiques for a team of 10 designers, delivering targeted feedback to enhance usability, visual consistency, and alignment with product goals.

Senior Product Designer| PwC - Sightline, Deliverables & Tasks    2023

  • Designed the e-file system mapping feature, allowing tax engagements to accurately report IRS statuses to clients and reduce the risk of tax filing errors ahead of statutory deadlines, resulting in a 14% increase in usage from FY23 to FY24.
  • Pioneered the transition to AG Grid for a tax project management platform, reducing load times to 2 seconds for engagements with 8,000+ deliverables and adding features such as column customization, data grouping, filtering, and tagging.
  • Improved Sightline task creation flows to support bulk processes, reducing engagement setup time by 10% for tax preparers and managers.
  • Added support for new deliverable types, enabling Sightline to handle excise tax, sales & use tax, and consulting tax, broadening support for a $100M book of business.

Product Designer| PwC - Products & Technology    2020

  • Conducted usability audits, presented recommendations to stakeholders, and implemented redesigns by translating wireframes into high-fidelity Figma prototypes to address business challenges across PwC Tax and Enablement products.

Product Designer| PwC - New Ventures    2018

  • Managed the end-to-end UX process for Workforce Orchestrator, PwC’s HR SaaS employee engagement platform, designing mobile-first new hire onboarding plans and building admin dashboards to assess employee sentiment at scale, resulting in a 27% improvement in 90-day employee retention and a 43% reduction in first-day no-shows.

FiscalHive

UX/UI Designer    December 2017–March 2018

  • Redesigned FiscalHive's loan pool analyzer, enabling credit unions to efficiently review and manage transactions totaling over $11 million.
  • Simplified workflows and enhanced data visualization to help users assess risk, mark loans for removal, and finalize participation packages. This work directly supported the mission to increase liquidity and transparency within the $892 billion credit union market.

San José, CA

Self-employed

Independent Designer    February 2017–December 2017

Worked with clients across industries to define concepts, design workflows, and create impactful digital experiences. Designed MVPs for early-stage startups, delivered marketing collateral to elevate product visibility, and collaborated with stakeholders to improve mobile and web applications. Took ownership of both UX and visual design across projects, ensuring outcomes aligned with client goals and user needs.

Select Clients: Udacity, Sony Biotechnologies, Gaia Interactive, Cellebrite.

San José, CA

Captora

UX/UI Designer    October 2016–February 2017

Designed experiences in Captora's web-based marketing platform to optimize customer's understanding and improved workflow usability within the application. Unified Captora's user interfaces and internal design language.

Mountain View, CA

Uber

Design Intern    June 2015–August 2015

San Francisco, CA

ZURB

Design Intern    June 2014–August 2014

Campbell, CA

Kalio Commerce

Graphic Designer    March 2014–June 2014

Cupertino, CA

Skeletal Kinetics

Graphic Designer    May 2013–August 2013

Cupertino, CA

VOLUNTEERING

Develop for Good

1:1 Mentor    Summer 2024

Mentored a junior product manager serving, New York non-profit, Building Beats.

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PwC

Intern Coach    Summers 2022, 2023

Coached 6 rising college juniors and seniors across two summers, resulted in 3 interns accepting full-time roles.

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EDUCATION

San José State University

BFA Graphic Design    May 2016

Cum Laude

ACHIEVEMENTS

AIGA SF Enrichment Scholarship

Best in School    May 2015


Intel Security Designovation Contest

First Place    October 2014