Resume

Skills

Research

Journey Maps

Use Cases

Usability Testing

Contextual Inquiry

Heuristic Evaluation

Design

Interactive Prototypes

Design Systems

Mobile Responsive

Web Accessibility

Information Architecture

Data Standardization

Business Analysis

Requirements Elicitation

Process Flows

Use Cases

Domain Models

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Axure

Adobe Illustrator

JAWS

NVDA

ANDI

HTML / CSS

GitLab

Design Systems

Ant

Material (Google)

Lightning (Salesforce)

Summary

  • 5+ years collaborating with scaled agile teams in defining a product roadmap.

  • 10+ years of experience designing complex domain applications.

  • Expertise in defining user requirements, prototyping, and usability testing.

  • • Expertise in defining user requirements, prototyping, and usability testing.

  • Skilled at balancing design with business, technical, and user constraints.

  • Proficient in accessibility testing and guiding developers to meet WCAG guidelines.

  • Focused on designing scalable solutions to accomodate current and future features.

Work Experience

Systems Planning & Analysis | UX & Systems Analyst

Feb 2025 to Present, Alexandria, VA

  • Redesigned a cost estimation tool, enabling clearer breakdown and analysis of military operational costs.

  • Designed a wargaming prototype for deploying, playing and managing game events.

  • Redesigned the customer’s public website, enhancing visual design and accessibility.

  • Conducted usability testing and produced a usability report on pros/cons of a redesign.

Navitas Tech | UX Team Lead

Apr 2024 to Feb 2025, Herndon, VA

  • Configured a design system and established CRUD patterns for landing, dashboard, content, and form-level pages.

  • Conducted user research/business analysis to elicit functional requirements.

  • Designed a case management application to manage multi-million dollar contracts globally.

  • Developed use cases and test cases to support and align the development teams.

Peraton | Senior UX Designer

Jan 2021 to Present, Herndon, VA

  • Designed a responsive and accessible customer portal for tracking and managing service requests and online passport renewals for millions of Americans.

  • Created a design system to ensure multiple teams adopted design guidelines.

  • Delivered user research artifacts to enable stakeholder decision making.

  • Guided the UX team with daily stand-ups and fostered cross-team collaboration to streamline workflows.

Northrop Grumman | Senior UX Designer

Dec 2014 to Jan 2021, McLean, VA

  • Designed a multi-domain battle planning proof-of-concept that could generate battle plans based on sensor data and weighted attributes.

  • Conducted user research by creating personas and identifying use cases.

  • Elicited functional and nonfunctional requirements and priorities.

  • Performed usability testing to validate UX/UI design effectiveness.

Education + Certifications

  • George Mason University | B.S. Information Systems

  • George Mason University | B.S. Business Marketing

  • NN/g | UX Certification

  • W3C | Introduction to Web Accessibility Certification

  • Stanford University | d.School (design thinking) Certification