Senior UX / UI Designer
B2G GovTech/EdTech software company building enterprise web platforms for early childhood agencies. Platforms serve 500K+ users across 12 U.S. states, supporting $200M+ in grants and subsidies.
- Led 0-to-1 product design for an enterprise childcare licensing platform, translating ambiguous, regulated, and operationally complex requirements into intuitive, scalable workflows from discovery through implementation.
- Partnered directly with customers across five states to understand complex workflows, uncover pain points, define data structures, and use customer insights to influence product direction.
- Designed end-to-end, role-based experiences across dashboards, correction orders, licensing workflows, and other multi-step processes supporting multiple personas and real-world operational needs.
- Built and evolved a scalable design system spanning reusable components, design tokens, semantic conventions, accessibility standards, and shared interaction patterns in close partnership with Engineering.
- Reduced UI defects in AI-generated implementation code from ~8 per story to just over 1 by grounding development in established design-system components, patterns, and standards.
- Increased monthly mobile membership applications 4x through a responsive redesign of a statewide Registry/PWA, simplifying a complex application workflow and removing barriers for mobile customers.
- Mentored two designers in systems thinking, component architecture, design-system structure, tokenization, semantic conventions, and scalable UX practices.