Resume
10+ years in of Enterprise experience
10+ years industry experience in an Enterprise environment
Creating, building and evolving a Design System, from scratch, at scale
Design system supports 100+ products across 12 product units.
Design system is currently in its third major design language
Accessibility advocacy
Working on interdisciplinary groups of researchers, developers, project management, visual designers and interaction designers.
Experience
2020 - 2022
OpenTextLead UX Designer
Manage the Visual Design for the OpenText Design System
Design system is comprised of components, patterns, and best practices that ensure consistent look and feel of experience across the company’s large suite of products
Design System is user focused, where our user is developers, PMs, QA and UX and Visual designers
Conceptualize, define and design atomic design components—from structural layouts to micro-interactions
Team building - coaching and training team members and interns
Project roadmapping and working closely with stakeholders to communicate timelines effectively
Working in an agile and sprint environment
Hiring committees for UX and Visual Design roles
Extensive use of Jira and Confluence
Asset management - icons, branding &Figma component libraries
Conducting User Research
2017 - 2020
OpenTextSenior UX Visual Designer
Migration of design artifacts from Adobe CC products to Figma
Transitioned our Design Language from our first major version to 2.0 & 2.1
Developed process for Design System components creation, review submission
2013 - 2017
OpenTextVisual Designer
Product focused designer working in the Digital Asset Management space
Responsible for providing comprehensive mockups and visual design specifications
Notes
Student Awards: Nurun Award for User Experience Design
Judging of student awards for the Association of Registered Graphic Designers student awards
Guest speaker for an internal OpenText Women In Tech series