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Saora is a website platform for painters and fine artists. Artists pick one of three templates, then manage their work from a Google Sheet and an image folder. Publishing from the sheet rebuilds the site, so there's no CMS or site builder to learn.

Each artwork gets its own indexed page with structured SEO and social preview cards. Large image files are optimized automatically on upload.

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Co-founded a small Webflow studio building marketing sites for small and medium-sized businesses. I lead UX and visual design, and I ship the front-end myself. That means I think through information architecture, interaction, CMS structure, and dev handoff from day one, with no lost intent between mockup and production.

Work spans discovery, brand-aligned visual design, Webflow build, CMS struct

Lead UX Designer for Product Options across the Product Presentation domain. Owned how customers configure size, finish, quantity, and custom artwork across a wide range of products on the site. Conducted a site audit and led redesign work on core product configuration experiences.

Lead designer on The Hub, eBay's Nielsen Norman Award-winning company-wide intranet, used by every eBay employee as their default new-tab page.

Redesigned the Hub homepage, the landing page for every eBay employee. Covered user flows, Figma prototypes, coded prototypes, and shipping production front-end code.

Rebuilt employee search into a federated model that pulled data from many internal ap

Sole designer and lead front-end developer at this web marketing studio in Oakland. Designed and built marketing websites for Ben & Jerry's, Newfi, NHI, and other clients. Produced wireframes, concept sketches, visual design, and marketing collateral end-to-end.

Working with drupal on the SFSU site. Included coding and creating department sites

The course included typography, graphic design, web development, and design for both desktop and mobile.

The course focused on all aspects of UX design. From market research, interviews, design thinking, graphic design, wireframes, mood boards, etc.

A comprehensive 7 month development course created by Meta. It covered Bootstrap, HTML/CSS, Javascript, React and more.

Bachelor of Arts, Major in Psychology, Minor in Film Studies

Certificate in Web Design with Graphics. I also took additional papers in User Experience, HTML, CSS, & JS.

An intensive course covering all aspects of UX, from the problem statements, user interviews, all the way up to prototyping.