Clear as day, I remember walking with my mother by Bryant Park in NYC, I happen to see a school that excited me. We walked in, that’s when I took the first steps in starting my career as a UX Designer. I guess we all have to start somewhere! This is my journey. 

Amazon Web Services – AWS

Senior User Experience Designer at AWS
Day 1 is June 2022

At AWS, I joined a dynamic and highly skilled CX design organization and collaborated with highly skilled engineering teams to build new services and features used across the globe by enterprises, universities, small-medium businesses and individual business owners and developers.

My experience at AWS, started with the Lightsail team to design, build and launch the general availability of Lightsail for Research (LFR), all within 7 months. The Lightsail team had recently lost their UX Designer, I had to quickly ramp up, learn and build upon the initial research efforts to understand the customer, the problem space and technology. While ramping up, I had to navigate through the ambiguity of the LFR customers, the Lightsail team, AWS itself, the AWS CX org and a new design system that was in early development. LinkedIn post, AWS What’s new post GA announcement.

As of June 2022, I am the sole UX designer for the AWS Messaging services that include Amazon MQ, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS. Additionally, on July 2024, I became involved in .NET Modernization business.

As a Senior User Experience Designer, I aim to benefit the organization by mentoring UX designers and those interested in transitioning to UX. I am involved in weekly UX design reviews and provide feedback on designs across orgs and AWS services such as EC2 Enterprise and Lightsail, among others. Since joining Amazon, I’ve had the privilege of performing 27 candidate phone screens and interviews across UX Design, UX Research and Project Managers.

Amazon Lab126

Senior User Experience Designer at Amazon Lab126.
Day 1 is October 12 2020!

The Associated Press

Senior User Experience Designer

During my 10 year tenure at AP, I contributed to the evolution of the Product Design team, helping to modernize internal processes, allowing the team to adapt and design smarter products much more efficiently using research and analytics; my greatest accomplishment and contribution to the AP mission.

My last project at AP was AP Pronto (internal name) — AP’s core newsroom authoring and publishing news content platform. The project won the CEO award that year. The tool is used around the globe by journalists and editors on the field, in offices and often used utilizing satellite connections when in remote environments. At AP headquaters and offices, the tool is used by editors, where they receive initial reports from journalist on the field and they begin working on the story. Editors finalize the final copy and associated media to tell the story. The tool is a progressive web application for desktop and mobile, meant to work in harsh environments such as remote countries, places of war and conflict, and large arenas such as stadiums.

In previous years, I led the design of AP ePix — a photo authoring and management web application, similar to AP Pronto but for the Photo Editorial desk. The final assets are published to news outlets and used in Pronto for AP news publishing.

Media API dashboard, AP VoteCast, AP Developer and AP Hosted Digital Services platform. My team and I have designed the all new AP Newsroom — a consumer facing multimedia license content platform, created by the consolidation of silo media websites.

Weill Cornell Medical College

Web Designer

I designed web experiences to provide patients and staff the best and easiest way to critical information. Corporate website weill.cornell.edu, Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery, Transplantation, Global Health, ITS, MS Center, Thoracic Surgery and Pathology sites.

Publishers Clearing House

Consulting Designer and Developer

Over 10 years, while working my day-to-day jobs at AP and Cornell, I provided consulting design and development services for PCH web sites, PCH Blogs, PCH Media and the human resources internal site. I’ve created custom solutions using WordPress as the content management system.