employment, education, etc.

ni (national instruments)

september 2013 – present

interaction designer

entry (2013) → staff (2015) → senior (2018)

ux manager

changed roles (2021) → senior (2022)

as an interaction designer, i...

• crafted workflows for development, debugging, collaboration, and other aspects of the labview nxg graphical programming environment.
• redesigned veristand hardware-in-the-loop (hil) test engineering software.
• planned and performed UX research activities from discovery through test.
• defined design patterns and tenets applied across multiple desktop apps.
• experimented with new collaboration processes and prototyping tools.

as a ux manager, i...

• defined team rituals to foster connection and collaboration.
• hired ux talent and stood up a new technical illustration team in hungary.
• led a grassroots “tiger team” to secure leadership buy-in for a design system.
• achieved consistently high employee engagement and engaged manager survey scores (qualtrics) and received internal manager excellence award.

oregon state university ecampus

january 2013 – august 2013

e-learning designer and developer

designed and implemented the learning experiences, interactions, and visuals for online learning modules used in a wide variety of university courses.