“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
ServiceNow, Zymr, Stretto, Baffle, Exinda, Cyberflow Analytics, Amojie
University of California, Berkley - Full Stack Coding Certificate
California State University - Bachelor of Arts - Graphic Design
Following My Calling
Art has been a huge part of my entire life, as my parents exposed me to art and culture at a very young age. I was 2 years old when I visited the Louvre for the first time. While art has always been a passion of mine, I did not realize it would become part of my career path until college.
I began my college experience as a Biology major at the University of Georgia. After a couple years of creative exploration and experimenting with different subjects, I found design to be the ideal career path, allowing me to use my creative skills for problem solving and visual communication through different mediums.
I decided to transfer to a school in California, to complete my major in a place that revolves around technology and design, my home: Silicon Valley.
My Style & Quality
My art is inspired by the world around me, developing both my freeing creative side and detail-oriented perfectionist side. Every mark is deliberate and has meaning, but is created intuitively at the same time. I have a natural eye for color, analyzing context, value, contrast, saturation, and moods created. Combining my intuitiveness with observation and analyzing connections, I developed a strong sense of empathy. All these factors allow me to work as efficiently as possible, without sacrificing quality.
My Experience
UX/UI/Visual Design - Zymr Inc. - Feb 2014 - Present
I have been working with several Silicon Valley technology startups in UI/UX design role. Along the way, I have improved my skills, collaborated with different stakeholders such as executives, product managers, and software engineering team. I have mastered agile development and many tools and processes for design. I have completed a Full-Stack Development Certificate Course with University of California, Berkeley. I have good HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills which enables me to become a solid team player to work with an agile software development team.
Over the past few years, I have developed my storyboarding, wireframing, branding, prototyping, and front-end development skills.
On Visual Design, I designed brand-aware custom icons, created color palettes and web color swatches. I followed Agile Development process and worked on two-week sprints, Jira and Asana. I reviewed visual designs in detail and reported bugs in Jira.
From my work with technology startups, I have developed my skills in UX design workflow and advanced use of Adobe Creative Cloud suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Art & Culture Program - UGA Study Abroad - May 2013
This six week summer program introduced me to the world of Adobe tools. I worked closely with some great artists and teachers. I had the opportunity to study watercolor, drawing, and Photoshop directly in nature, with 4 other students.
The Harker School - AP Studio Art - Graduated 2011
Extensive training in Arts - Painting, Drawing, Design. Took AP Studio Art in my senior year of high-school.