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About me

I am a UI/UX designer based in Philadelphia. My main focus is creating customer-centric solutions stakeholders can rely on, that is research-backed and thoughtful in design!

I've redesigned products at Amazon and Acuity Insurance and created new experiences at AWS and Graditude. My work spans across different industries, and is ever-expanding as I continue growing as a designer.

In my free time, I enjoy making art in any form, as well as reading, traveling, and paddle boarding. If you've read this far, say hi via email or on LinkedIn!

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Education

B.S. in User Experience & Interaction Design @ Drexel University

Expected Jun 2027 | Philadelphia, PA | GPA 3.96

Work Experience

UX Designer Intern @ AWS

Jun 2026 – Sep 2026 | New York, NY

Designed an end-to-end experience with Claude, enabling AWS customers to efficiently scale cloud infrastructure.

  • Designed an AWS end-to-end experience via Claude, enabling customers to efficiently scale cloud infrastructure.
  • Built an interactive GenAI prototype with 3 guided paths and detailed logic, informed by AWS documentation.
  • Conducted generative market and competitor research to ground design decisions.
  • Partnered with PMs, a solution architect and engineer to validate feasibility of user flows, define target customer segments, and align on scope boundaries.
  • Wrote an unmoderated usability test plan (20 participants, 2 segments, 6 hypotheses) for validation post-internship.

Digital Customer Experience Intern @ Acuity Insurance

Mar 2026 – Jun 2026 | Remote

Redesigned a core customer customer journey in Figma, running user and competitive research to improve usability and brand image.

  • Redesigned a core customer journey on Acuity's website to improve usability, brand image, and customer pain points.
  • Validated user personas and iterated layouts via A/B tests with 10 participants, direct and indirect competitor analysis, and heuristic evaluation.
  • Advocated for customers across multiple stakeholders, proposing 5 features to implement in a future launch.
  • Conducted audits across 5+ high traffic pages, providing recommendations to improve accessibility.

UX Designer Intern @ Amazon

Jun 2025 – Sep 2025 | Seattle, WA

Redesigned an internal incident-reporting tool, leading mixed-methods research with 15+ participants to validate pain points and guide product direction.

  • Redesigned core interfaces on the Worldwide Operations Security team for an internal incident reporting tool by implementing a scalable design system in Figma, improving usability and consistency across workflows for agents.
  • Led mixed-methods user research (5+ interviews, 5+ contextual inquiries, usability testing) with 15+ participants, validating seven usability pain points and translating insights into actionable design recommendations.
  • Balanced industry and business needs by conducting competitor analyses, including stakeholder interviews and a visual audit of 5+ competitors, resulting in informed designs.
  • Delivered data-backed strategy recommendations through research synthesis in Dovetail and internal AI tools, creating user personas, validating findings via surveys and writing final reports to guide product direction.

UX/UI Design Intern @ Graditude

Mar 2025 – Jun 2025 | Remote

Designed a scalable admin-matching flow for a mentorship social network, validated through research and cross-functional feedback.

  • Created a core admin matching user flow for a mentorship-focused social network that is scalable for 100+ members, allowing campus org leaders to match potential mentors and mentees.
  • Designed low and high-fidelity website prototypes on Figma and contributed new components with multiple states for the company design system (cards, chips, & buttons).
  • Validated design work by synthesizing past research and engaging in empathy mapping, competitor analysis, affinity mapping, and conducting 5+ user interviews.
  • Informed design decisions by integrating feedback from 1 designer, 1 engineer, and the company founder and reporting tasks to the design lead using ClickUp & Slack.

UX Design Intern @ Biasly

Mar 2025 – Jun 2025 | Remote

Redesigned 10+ educational pages and built 20+ reusable, accessible UI components in Figma, backed by research with 50+ users.

  • Redesigned 10+ educational website pages & graphics in Figma for a news website providing bias ratings & analytics.
  • Enhanced the website's visual language by designing 20+ reusable UI components such as icons, cards, images, & data visualizations, creating engaging layouts that ensured accessibility and supported a cohesive design system.
  • Validated design decisions by conducting and synthesizing research with 50+ users through surveys, user interviews, and open card sorting via Google Forms and Zoom.
  • Incorporated stakeholder feedback through Nifty to iterate rapidly and communicate project progress to the supervisor.

UX Designer Intern @ Amazon

Jun 2024 – Sep 2024 | New York, NY

Designed data-driven mobile concepts to improve Amazon's delivery instructions, grounded in driver interviews, competitive, and customer research.

  • Designed data-driven user flows, wireframes, and mobile concepts that improved delivery experiences and informed future iterations, managing cross-functional deliverables in Asana for the Delivery Experience team.
  • Used Figma to create ideations and mockups redesigning delivery instructions in the Amazon shopping app.
  • Synthesized key customer problems by summarizing past reports, interviewing delivery drivers, and conducting market research through analyzing 5 competitors & 50+ customer insights.
  • Employed AI tools within UserTesting to collect user feedback from 8+ customers, initiating project handoff in a comprehensive final project brief to the team.
  • Contributed to design critiques during weekly meetings to improve the Amazon delivery experience for customers.

Marketing Design Intern @ ZeroEyes

Apr 2024 – Jun 2024 | Philadelphia, PA

Launched a partnership webpage and produced brand-focused marketing designs across multiple design tools, driving user acquisition.

  • Launched a high-visibility Partnership webpage for an AI security company by collaborating cross-functionally, defining the content strategy, information architecture, and UI layout to promote new business partnerships.
  • Utilized Figma, WordPress, After Effects, Canva, Photoshop, & Audition to create brand-focused designs, including 10+ marketing templates, 50+ social media posts, and an animated video driving user acquisition across all channels.
  • Created a brand guideline presentation to maintain a consistent visual design across all digital assets.

UI/UX Intern @ Coded By:

May 2023 – Aug 2023 | Philadelphia, PA

Wireframed and prototyped a program-finding website for Philadelphia parents in Figma, building a cohesive design system validated through usability testing.

  • Collaborated cross-functionally in Miro and Figma to wireframe and prototype for a program-finding website helping working parents find after-school programs in Philadelphia.
  • Worked in Figma to build a comprehensive website design, including a visually compelling design system with microinteractions and vector assets.
  • Validated 5+ desktop webpage designs via market research and competitive usability testing.
  • Presented design iterations in daily collaborative meetings to drive project objectives and team discussions.

Project Experience

Project Manager & Designer @ Drexel University

Sep 2025 – Mar 2026 | Philadelphia, PA

Led a 6-person team to design a mobile app for discovering affordable local activities, managing timelines in Jira and shipping a tested user flow in TestFlight.

  • Directed a 6-person cross-functional team to design a mobile app helping young adults discover affordable local activities in Philadelphia, managing weekly team meetings and project timelines via Jira.
  • Delivered a fully functional critical user flow in TestFlight and synthesized UX research insights from 60 users to validate and refine features.
  • Designed low- to high-fidelity prototypes in Figma and built a component-based design system with microinteractions to improve usability.

UX Researcher & Designer @ Drexel University

Sep 2024 – Dec 2024 | Philadelphia, PA

Researched the Dropout streaming platform through interviews and 200+ survey responses, then translated insights into a journey map and an animated user story.

  • Analyzed target users of the Dropout streaming platform and provided key UX recommendations by interviewing 5+ customers and synthesizing findings from 200+ online survey responses.
  • Created a journey map and storyboards in Figma and used After Effects to animate a compelling user story.

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