Experience

At Workday, I worked across the Talent organization at the intersection of product design, design engineering, systems thinking, and emerging AI experiences. I began by designing Talent Marketplace and Gigs, then expanded into leading design across skills-based products. A major part of my work was helping define how skills could operate as a foundational capability across Talent and adjacent HCM experiences—not simply as a feature within a single product. As Workday moved toward a more AI-first and agentic product model, my role increasingly focused on turning ambiguous concepts into tangible, working experiences that Product, Design, and Engineering could evaluate, test, and align around. I designed and built high-fidelity React prototypes for strategic initiatives including Performance Management, 360 Feedback, Learning, and AI-first Talent experiences. I also explored how AI could support continuous performance management, personalized feedback, goals, career development, coaching, and manager effectiveness. I developed collaborative design-engineering workflows using Figma, React, GitHub, shared component libraries, Workday Canvas, and AI-assisted tools such as Cursor, reducing concept-to-working-prototype cycles from weeks to hours. I also helped scale code-based prototyping and design-engineering practices across multiple design teams through reusable patterns, shared codebases, hands-on collaboration, and mentorship. Throughout this work, I partnered closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and design leadership, and mentored both Workday designers and SFSU design students through the Diversify by Design program.

I continued with the organization as AOL and Yahoo were brought together under Verizon and the Oath organization, expanding my work across shared publishing platforms, design systems, and high-visibility consumer experiences. • Designed and evolved publishing experiences used across major AOL and Yahoo properties, including Yahoo.com, Autoblog, and The Huffington Post. • Created reusable patterns and platform workflows that supported multiple brands while maintaining consistency across a large, complex media ecosystem. • Contributed to the Yahoo design system, helping establish reusable interface patterns, visual standards, and shared product conventions. • Designed weekly player-highlight experiences for Yahoo Fantasy Football, creating the original motion concepts in Adobe After Effects and working with Engineering to translate them into reusable coded templates. • Worked across Product, Engineering, Editorial, and Design organizations to balance brand-specific needs with scalable platform solutions. • Combined strong visual and interaction craft with systems thinking across publishing, consumer media, personalization, and shared product experiences.

I joined AOL in 2014 following its acquisition of Gravity and remained with the organization through Verizon’s acquisition of AOL. My work focused on publishing platforms, personalization, and scalable product experiences supporting a large portfolio of consumer media brands. • Designed the core backend publishing interface used across AOL-owned properties, creating workflows for editorial teams to source, manage, and publish third-party content from providers including the Associated Press and Getty Images. • Led UI/UX, product design, and visual design within the Publishing organization, translating complex editorial workflows into clearer, reusable experiences. • Developed shared interaction patterns that could support multiple brands and use cases while maintaining consistency across the broader publishing platform. • Worked closely with Product, Engineering, Editorial, and Design teams to define requirements, simplify workflows, and carry concepts through implementation. • Helped bring personalization and recommendation thinking from Gravity into the broader AOL product ecosystem following the acquisition. • Continued with the organization after Verizon acquired AOL, helping evolve shared products and platforms as the business moved toward combining AOL and Yahoo.

I joined Gravity during its startup phase, designing product experiences around content personalization and recommendation technology before the company was acquired by AOL in 2014. • Designed consumer-facing experiences that translated complex personalization and recommendation technology into clear, intuitive interactions. • Worked closely with Product and Engineering in a fast-moving startup environment, contributing across UX, interface design, visual design, and product concept development. • Helped shape experiences around Gravity’s broader vision of a more personalized internet, making sophisticated recommendation technology feel approachable and useful to everyday users. • Collaborated fluidly across disciplines, moving quickly from early concepts to usable product experiences as the company evolved. • Continued with the team into AOL following the acquisition in 2014.