Microsoft Family, Visual Designer & Illustrator

Envisioned, created, and designed new brand direction, design system, and storytelling for Microsoft Family, which communicated a mixture of sophistication and playfulness to engage both our children and adult users. Crafted a broad array of engaging in-product illustrations in a variety of styles (2D/3D) that fit the context and user flows. Also responsible for reviewing team designs, giving detailed feedback, and providing guidance to ensure the product design conveyed on-brand consistency, strong aesthetics, and clear functionality.

Google Trust & Safety, Visual Designer

As a Visual Designer on the Trust & Safety team at Google, my role included weaving iconography, typography, color, space, and texture to help users navigate Google products. I was responsible for creating user interfaces, dashboards, and branding along with helping the Trust and Safety team researchers tell their stories with the intention of making the internet a safer, more beautiful place, free of violence, hate, abuse, and harm. I utilized key user-centered design principles to produce high quality visuals—from concept to execution and across different platforms. I collaborated with other designers to refine design language and create innovative products inspired with design ethos that people love to use. 

Google Maps, Communications Designer 

As a member of the Google Maps team, I was responsible for synthesizing a variety of highly technical content such as development program updates, user research findings, consumer segmentation insights, and data analytics.Accountable for crafting and weaving content into compelling, engaging, and memorable messaging aimed at audiences ranging from global UX team members to Google executives. Design projects often took the form of presentations, illustrations, infographics, videos, printed materials, emails, websites, templates, branding, in addition to contributing illustrations to the Google Maps platform user interface. Accompanying these projects, I was also in charge of holding workshops, generating presentation design guidelines, and giving design ethos presentations to Google Maps team members worldwide.

Current Experience


Education

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Bachelor of Science Graphic Communication
Concentration: Design Reproduction Technology
Recent Graduate, conferred June 2017
Dean’s List 2013


Other Work Experience

Director of Photography & Video  |  Camp PolyHacks
September 2016-January 2017

Videographer/Photographer  |  Montenegro For You
June 2016-August 2016

Photographer  |  Current Solutions
September 2016-June 2017

Graphic Designer  |  Cal Poly College of Science and Mathematics,
2015-2016

Vice President Marketing   |   Spring Roks 2016
December 2015- February 2016

Creative Director  |  AIESEC SLO
October 2014- August 2015

Program Director/ Head Designer  |  StandOut, San Luis Obispo California
November 2014-April 2015

San Luis Obispo Graphic Design Blues Baseball Internship
September 2014-Janruary 2015

 


Awards

Cal Poly Design & Development Hackathon Honorable Mention
April 9th, 2016

International Photographer Forum’s Annual Contest Recognition
December 2015

Kai’outi Magazine
Published in Susurrous Issue: May 2015
Gypsy Wasteland Issue: March 2015,
Sweet Surrender Issue: February 2015

Zephyr Magazine
Artist’s Choice Issue, May 2015

Whim Magazine
Website feature, February 2015


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Software
Figma
Adobe InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Premier Pro
Lightroom
After Effects
XD
Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Redshift
HTML 5
CSS 3
Sketch
Google Suite
Microsoft Office

Knowledge
UI/UX Design
Visual Design
Presentation Design
Storytelling
Content Strategy
Color Theory
Design Thinking
Typography
Design Layout
Corporate Identity & Branding
Event Planning
Team Management
Print & Distribution
Prepress Process
Marketing

Visual Arts
Photography (film & digital)
Videography
Video Editing
Illustration
Paint