Resume
Work Experience
Nov. 2020 - Present
Zappos / Senior Accessibility Experience Designer
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Leading accessibility strategy across web and mobile products
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Partnering with cross-functional leads to prioritize accessibility work
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Guiding design, development, and QA practitioners to enable them to build and deploy accessible experiences from the start
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Establishing and governing design and technical standards for accessibility across all digital products
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Advocating and educating practitioners through regular training sessions/office hours
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Conducting regular automated and manual evaluations of new features and experiences on web/mobile platforms
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Communicating and reporting evaluation findings to senior leadership
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Creating low/high fidelity designs and interactive prototypes
Jun. 2019 - Nov. 2020
Zappos / Accessibility Experience Designer
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Conducted a comprehensive evaluation of existing digital experiences, reported findings, and created a remediation plan
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Collaborated with design, development and QA to create sustainable, accessible design system components
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Built a resource hub to help promote self-guided education and training
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Served as the point of contact for all accessibility related inquiries
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Implemented an accessibility library to help designers notate their designs for development
Mar. 2017 - Jun. 2019
Zappos / UX Design Technologist
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Led the design, testing and implementation of a broad set of landing page components, which ultimately became the building blocks of our new design system
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Managed and maintained design system patterns and standards
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Built and iterated prototypes to help identify unforeseeable gaps
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Became tech advocate for accessibility
Mar. 2015 - Mar. 2017
Zappos / UX Designer
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Created low / high fidelity website experiences
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Redesigned entire triggered/transactional company emails leading to 12% higher CTR
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Led the initiative to make global, responsive UI changes to Zappos.com for the first time since 2010
May 2014- Mar. 2015
Zappos / Jr. Front-End Developer
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Aided in migrating over email systems
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Transitioned triggered/transactional emails to be responsive
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Developed and designed the Zappos User Interface Guidelines
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Developed a Gait Analysis mobile app for Zappos customers
Oct. 2010- May 2014
Zappos / Visual Designer
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Interned for the first 6 months
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Designed print collateral to support Marketing campaigns as well as internal events
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Led a team in building Zappos’ first pop-up environmental experience at the Cosmopolitan Hotel
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Created and implemented website assets
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Contributed in creating the holiday shipping box designs
Education
Dec. 2017
Nielsen Norman Group / UX Master Certification
Credential ID: 1010956
Jun. 2003 - Aug. 2007
University of Nevada Reno / Marketing
Bachelors Degree
Skills & Expertise
Skills
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UX/UI Design
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Prototyping
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Accessibility Evaluations (Automated/Manual)
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Project Management
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Research
Software
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Sketch
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Figma
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Abstract
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Invision
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Adobe Suite
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Visual Studio Code