RESUME

Won highly competitive research award for efforts to redesign the Panera Catering website.

Won second place company-wide for a project to add flexible and prioritized delivery slotting across Panera’s platforms, with projected savings of over $1mil.

Award winning leader driving research, gamification, and ecommerce strategy for menu and merchandise, along with Unlimited Sip Club and MyPanera loyalty and subscription programs. Grew program to over a million subscribers in just under a year, and introduced in-app challenges to further gamify the purchasing experience. Lead designer for digital menu overhaul work, designed assets, planned testing and nine day sprint cadences for entire UX team. Mapping and facilitating workshops to increase collaboration opportunities across the company, and mentoring youngest members of design team. Hold biweekly meetings with other members of the design team as well as product partners.

Worked cross-functionally with product, development, and digital leadership for off-premise and recovery channels. Updated design system for implementation across all digital platforms.

Designed gamified learning experiences and badging ecosystem for professional development platforms. Conducted learner research and leading stakeholder shareouts. Documenting design system for Harvard Manage Mentor corporate learning platform.

Facilitated user interviews, vision sprints, and research for projects across ecommerce, education, and finance industries. Worked with lead designer and development team to draft wireframes and UI designs in support of overall Agile project strategy. Lead internal professional development opportunities as a facilitator of the Hive Mind, a weekly meeting for the entire design team. Co-chair internal working group for innovative storytelling and new media, focusing on outreach and inbound lead generation, as well as women’s leadership association.

Worked directly between product and learning experience design teams to create unique online courses. Collaborated with project managers to oversee Agile development for UX and multimedia content across five delivery teams. Lead internal workshops about learning design, script development and storyboarding.

Designed core curriculum and taught Film & Animation, Design Thinking, and Meaning & Media classes for all grade and experience levels. Doubled number of students in all programs after one year. Introduced STEM design and rapid prototyping to 90 freshmen through semesterly Pinewood Derby event. Produced films highlighting Blair culture for Admissions and Communications offices. Managed 15 student filmmakers who produced related campus-wide projects, events, and publications. Collaborated with faculty to facilitate Project Based Learning Initiatives and weekend design challenges. Faculty mentor to Girls Who Code club, and GSA.

Edited “The Week in Rap”, a three minute video summarizing the week’s events made in Final Cut Pro and distributed to 20,000 schools across the United States. Illustrated and animated 2D characters, environments and assets for use in educational programming.