I specialize in guiding founders and software teams through the entire design lifecycle, from shipping products to building robust, long-term design operations and processes.

• Strategic Alignment: Collaborated closely with founders and stakeholders to align design strategies with business goals, ensuring cohesive and impactful user experiences.
• Streamlined Design Operations: Developed and implemented streamlined design operations and processes, resulting in improved efficiency and consistency across client projects.

UX Domain lead over the External Presence team for the Commercial Engine Operations business, leading a team of a product designer, an interaction designer, and a researcher

• Unified GE Aerospace‘s Legacy Tools: Transformed disparate legacy tools into a cohesive experience for major customers like Delta and FedEx, resulting in enhanced usability.
• Strategic Vision Development: Defined and implemented the strategic vision for GE Aerospace’s customer-facing software, leading to a more aligned product roadmap.
• User Research and Insights: Conducted comprehensive user research through interviews, observational research, and ethnography, uncovering critical pain points and opportunities that informed product improvements and increased user engagement.
• Empathy Building and Leadership Alignment: Crafted compelling stories of user pain points,fostering empathy among software leadership and aligning the team towards a shared product vision, enhancing collaboration and innovation.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Built strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, including executives, product teams, and engineers, achieving consensus and driving project success through effective communication and collaboration.
• Complex Process Simplification: Created detailed service blueprints to clarify complex processes, identifying connections between front stage interactions and back stage systems, leading to more efficient workflows and streamlined operations.

UX Domain lead over Core Services teams for the Commercial Engine Operations business, unifying shared services like global search, notifications and navigation.

• Defined shared features like global search, notifications, and global navigation
• Worked with a cross-functional team of visual designers, researches, engineering, and product to build consistent interactions, reduce redundancy and drive reuse across teams
• Identified opportunities for the business to improve adoption and increase user efficiency while executing complex business processes

UX Lead for SmartShop, an enterprise MRO SaaS app for GE Aviation and GE Power

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of four UX designers across US and Europe to support four teams of developers working on SmartShop
• Helped to define the product vision by working closely with stakeholders to establish feature road map, priorities, and timelines
• Established and lead the execution of SmartShop’s UX strategy. Including planning & executing research efforts, workshops, and coordinating UX resources to effectively execute the plan
• Coordinated and lead all research efforts at GE service shops globally, including on-site ethnographic research studies, user interviews, and usability studies
• Helped engineering teams to quickly implement user stories by developing and maintaining the SmartShop UI design system. This includes Sketch libraries, all design system docs, and maintaining the SmartShop UI living style guide using Storybook
• Established consistent functionality and interactions by facilitating design critiques
• Coordinated UX resources to support the engineering teams on a two week sprint schedule
• Delivered user insights to engineering teams by presenting the “ShopTalk” series, which explores learnings from user research

UX Lead for Brilliant Repair Services, an MRO solution for the Greenville Service Center

• Understood user needs by conducting user research, testing and interviews with shop users
• Translated user stories into intuitive user interfaces for GE Power Services apps
• Crafted high fidelity, interactive prototypes using Axure
• Quickly iterated and evolved prototypes using Agile development methodologies

• Worked with a multi faceted team to develop an array of digital advertising solutions
• Mentored traditional designers to successfully design dynamic digital deliverables

• Simplified complex requirement documentation and user flows into intuitive UIs
• Developed pixel perfect, standards compliant applications
• Developed and maintained an evolving design library of assets and style guidelines
• Mentored junior designer to help shape process and evolve design skills
• Involved in all aspects of software development, including user research, requirements gathering, prototyping, development, testing, launch, and ongoing maintenance

• Created award winning websites using the WordPress and WooCommerce platforms

• Increased listener numbers to over 57,000 downloads with average of 25% month over month growth
• Successfully released over 88 episodes on a weekly basis, ensuring a steady and engaging content flow for listeners
• Consistently positioned in the top 100 design podcasts in the USA on Apple Podcasts
• Earned perfect five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts, demonstrating listener satisfaction and endorsement of content quality
• Ranked in the top 2.5% of podcasts, conducting and producing interviews with industry influencers and experts, solidifying the podcast’s reputation as a leading voice in UX design
• Design, build, and maintain beyonduxdesign.com

• Work with aspiring UX designers over a six month cohort to prepare them for their first job.
• Guided and supported aspiring designers through a comprehensive curriculum, providing personalized feedback, fostering development, and ensuring successful course completion.

• Co Host a podcast centered around the software industry and explores the skills both software developers and designers need to make it in the industry
• Each episode explores various topics related to not only building great software but also great relationships along the way
• Uncover valuable insights from notable guests including “Uncle Bob” Martin, Dan North, Tom Greever, and many others
• Design, build, and maintain retrotimepodcast.com

• Még nem vagyok elég folyékony. De hamarosan leszek!

• Served as a volunteer builder on the Higgins PT305 restoration
• Performed various restoration projects throughout my four- year service
• Earned certified Deck Hand license

• Provide insights on various topics for aspiring designers like job hunting, portfolio reviews, or whiteboard design challenge prep.
• Awarded top 1% of mentors worldwide.

• Work with an aspiring UX designers over an eight week cohort to prepare them for their first job in the UX industry
• Provide insights and feedback on resumes, portfolio review, case studies, networking, interview and whiteboard design challenge prep and general career advice

• Started line of New Orleans-inspired t shirts with my wonderful wife
• Full page article feature in HOW design magazine

• #FrontEndParty // Teen Tech Day // Rising Tide // Women In Tech UI/UX Workshop // AIGA Portfolio Review and Panel Discussion // Master the Whiteboard Design Challenge // General Assembly Career Workshops // ADPList Career Shifter Panel Discussion