My Experience

  • January 2015 - Present

    Digital Artist, Designer & Consultant

    Commissioned by 15+ organizations and businesses to conceptualize and develop logos, design graphics for various deliverables, and consulted on interfaces to enhance user experience.

    Artistic jobs include murals for political campaigns, virtual background/set design for musical productions, and album covers for emerging singers.

    Worked with student-led venture, Campus, from 2020-2022, to help students “Find their fit” on Lehigh University’s campus as the head of branding and marketing. Built a network of 325+ students that contributes to grow.

  • September 2022 - Present

    Senior Associate UI/UX Product Designer

    • Led the creation and implementation of atomic design systems for ProEdge, Growth Centre, and Astro, collaborating with development teams to ensure consistency, accessibility, and scalability. 

    • Prototyped, iterated on, and created new solutions (ie. predictive search bar, filters, interactive map) for firm-wide opportunity-finding platform, MyMarketplace, utilizing coding experience to create realistic designs.

    • Mentored and trained 14 colleagues via Figma workshops and 1:1 sessions, boosting team confidence and efficiency in prototyping and design hand-offs.

    Associate UI/UX Product Designer

    • Facilitated moderated and unmoderated user interviews, developed test scripts, and synthesized insights to drive UX improvements for over 20,000 daily users.

    • Designed internal marketing materials including emails, GIFs, thumbnails, and presentation assets to support adoption of digital tools.

  • July 2022 - August 2022

    Graphic Design Contractor for

    Designed promotional emails, social media graphics, Amazon product listing images, and printed deliverables (such as posters, infographics, and signage) for products, events, partnerships and campaigns.

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  • June 2015 - Present

    National Coach Representative

    Currently serving as the chair for the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) National as a Coach representative. Run meetings, moderate discussion, lead educational sessions, and find ways we can support our athlete members.

    National Athlete Representative

    Served four years as the Programming and Events Chair for the Athletes' Executive Committee (AEC) spending 300+ hours developing content/curriculum, managing communication channels, and working with staff to execute national in-person and virtual leadership events (including USA Swimming’s annual in-person convention).

    Conducted trainings and mentorship programs for 1000+ athletes helping them be better leaders at the local level.

  • February 2019 - January 2022

    Graphic Design Intern

    Created monthly media posts and digital and printed ads to promote events for Lehigh Dining across campus.

  • Design

    Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate, Sketch, AutoCAD, Inventor, SketchUp

    Coding

    Languages: TML, CSS, Python, Javascript, Java

    Website services: SquareSpace, Wordpress, Wix

    Other

    Descript, Condens, UserTesting, Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, basic audio and video editing.

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Design Recognition

  • Annie, thank you for being such a great mentor during my first few months here. I truly appreciate your support and the example you set. I’m looking forward to continuing to work together!

    Maddie Cho Product Design Associate

  • Annie, thank you so much for all your hard work on Agent X this year. Your user insights and design sensibility always make us better.

    Jonpol Lavalle UI Design Manager

  • Not only did you manage your own responsibilities, but you also took on mine without missing a beat while I was out. On top of it all, you built a component system that’s going to make a huge difference in how we work moving forward. Truly impressive. Please keep the bar high, as always!

    Alejo Hincapie UI Design Manager

  • Huge thanks for being not just an awesome designer, but also a strategic powerhouse when it comes to research and insights. I’ve loved teaming up with you to brainstorm how we can totally level up the way our team does user research. Your creativity, smarts, and good vibes make it so fun to work together—and I’m seriously excited for what we’re building.

    Celesta Powers UX Research Senior Manager

  • I wish I could send you more points for all of your care and patience with me over the last month with the Design System work. You're a star Annie :)

    Haley Kirk UX Design Senior Associate

  • We officially launched today and the response has been absolutely phenomenal! Everyone is raving about the UX/UI, the stunning design...A huge thank you for all your incredible hard work over the past few years in bringing this amazing product to life! This is a huge accomplishment!

    Sheree Kim Product Design Senior Manager

  • Wanted to appreciate the time and care you put into making our app work. Your communication and ability to break things down makes it easy to complete assignments. Thanks for all you do and offering support whenever you can!

    John Ambers Product Manager Senior Associate

  • For continued brilliance in thorough design explorations, collaborative craftspersonship, and Figma efficiency-inizing. Always impressed how you deftly handle these large, messy, complex challenges we throw at you.. thank you, Annie!

    Adam Janusz UX Lead Senior Manager

  • Annie, your unique vision and attention to detail have significantly elevated our projects. It's been a pleasure witnessing your growth into this role. Your dedication to pushing creative boundaries has not only enhanced our projects but has also inspired the entire team. Thank you for your tireless efforts and commitment to excellence. Looking forward to continuing working with you.

    Ina Shtylla UX Research Manager

  • Thanks for all the figma goodness that you have been bestowing upon the astro team.

    Christian Solorzano UX Design Senior Associate

Year-End Assessments

Systems Thinking & Process

  • Exceptional thoughtfulness and craft when exploring and documenting design experiences for our product, leading to the timely handoff and delivery of features and enhancements.

  • Offers expertise in systems and tools to improve efficiency and consistency in the design process and steps up confidently to excel in research and stakeholder presentation.

  • Instrumental in maturing and refining our design system while also producing a significant volume of instructional assets for our launch.

  • Expertise in design systems and Figma components adds to consistency, speedy editing, and usability for continuous enhancements.

Communication

  • Communicates well with counterpart colleagues to progress and finalize design direction to build on their sound technical and user rationalized perspective.

  • Maintains an open mind and proactively seeks feedback to create intuitive, simple, and feasible product designs.

  • Mentorship has been invaluable by fostering skill development across the team. Annie leads discussions with stakeholders, communicating with clarity and effectiveness.

Problem Solving

  • Proactively identifies issues in UX and UI, guiding the team towards resolutions and improvements. We owe much of our progress to their contributions and leadership.

  • Excels in understanding user problems and designing experiences that address them, as evident in her deliverables.

  • A whirlwind of UX thinking and delivery. Annie balances many creative team asks with digging deep into her designated design requirements, establishing her own research and discovery, and processing the experience options through numerous wireframe and prototype investigations.

Results

  • Leverages experience from other products, incorporating key concepts into product-related deliverables. As a result, we are set to deliver an enhanced skills management functionality, fully integrated with the globally rolled-out SkyHive platform, for all PwC network firms.

  • Provides informed decisions and direction confidently to the team for alignment and collaborates well in hand-off and walkthroughs for UI, OPOs and Tech.

Lehigh University

Honors B.S. in Integrated Degree in Engineering, Arts & Sciences (IDEAS)

Earned a dual degree in Graphic Design and Computer Science with a focus in Design Thinking and Ethics in Technology