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EXPERIENCE

Freelance, Boston, MA

2023-Present

Lead Product Design Engineer

I specialize in partnering with technologists, leaders, and innovators within medical and technology industries to address product experiences, usability, and workflow challenges. I illuminate the path to success by identifying gaps in their software and devices, streamlining product processes, and pinpointing areas for improvement. 

BOLD INSIGHT, Chicago, IL
(Remote)

2022-2023

Senior UX/UI/HF Design Engineer

Collaborated closely with project leads and client stakeholders to conceive novel designs in the medical device sector, covering:

  • Created assets in compliance with FDA guidelines and regulated environments for multiple pharma and biotech clients in a consultant capacity, including:

    • IFUs – tabloid (2-page) and book types (100s of pages with TOC, indexing, and complex page structure) using Adobe InDesign.

    • Labels & Packaging Design - incorporating 15223 regulatory markings and ISO, IEC, and ANSI standards.

    • Created custom product illustrations to support IFU and product design.

    • Produced print-ready and prototyped IFUs, reference guides, and carton artwork for usability studies and product outputs that included bleeds, trims, folds, binding, laminating, and construction of cartons.

  • Task-, service-, user-flows, journey maps, and user personas and profiles for clients.

  • Prototyped mobile and web design concepts using Figma,  FigJam, and Adobe.

  • Designed a comprehensive scorecard for regulatory med device packaging compliance in XLS.

 

Successfully delivered user-friendly, innovative product UX and UI designs for both client commercial and IDE Medical Devices, including:

  • Heuristic and expert evaluation reports for client’s medical products to meet FDA regulatory standards.

  • Conducted user known problem research (MAUDE, MedSun).

  • Created URRA (uFMEA), PCA, and task analysis for assigned clients.

ANALOG DEVICES, Wilmington, MA
(Hybrid)

Staff Lead HF/UX/UI Engineer, Medical Products

2018-2022

I provided intuitive, enjoyable, and innovative product UX and UI designs and development for intricate commercial healthcare software as a Medical Device (SAMD) and a cardiopulmonary wearable medical device, part of the Digital Healthcare's Medical Products Group. My responsibilities included:

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  • Owned SaMD Software Suite for mobile, web, and cloud. Angular, Materials, CSS, JS, Bootstrap, AWS, tokenization.

  • Designed and delivered prototypes, mockups, wireframes, workflows, journey maps, hi- and lo-fi designs for the medical device, AWS integration, OTA updates, training, warehousing, Android mobile UI, and SaaS web application development in Angular, Angular Materials Design Library, and Bootstrap.

  • Developed wearable device instrumentation, algorithm for audible tone notifications, and tactile design for visual and HID interactions with device components. Recognized with a patent for my designs.

  • Created URRA (uFMEA), defined indications of use, prepared product labeling, drafted instructions for use (IFUs) – encompassing HPC, Patient, and QSG materials, validate against standards, establish usability requirements, and conducted Human Factors evaluations for the wearable medical device. Adobe Illustrator and InDesign.

  • Generated FDA-required documentation, conduct UX Formative and Summative testing for the Sentinel (CHF) wearable medical device. Execute patient research, testing, root-cause analysis, deliver design suggestions, and achieve favorable outcomes for FDA 510(k) submission.

  • Managed external vendors and budgets for research and testing needs.

  • Created and maintained HF / UX requirements documentation and testing reports to support FDA standards and submissions.

  • Took ownership of and provided comprehensive UX/HF support for the wearable device, commercial web and mobile applications.

MODO LABS, Cambridge, MA

2016-2018

Sr. HF/UX/UI Design Engineer

Engaged as a SaaS application product designer and developer at Modo, contributing to their SaaS product suite. Duties included:

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  • Establish ModoUI, a comprehensive design library system featuring highly functional browser-based UI components for Web and Mobile application development. The Design Library elevated the elegance, coherence, and capabilities of the Modo product suite.

  • Analyze requirements from current features, customer feedback, and senior management directives in an Agile workspace.

  • Execute customer research and user testing.

  • Create user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, journey maps, and prototypes using UXPin.

  • Ruby, HTML, SCSS, SaSS, CSS, Node.JS, JS, Bootstrap.

PEGASYSTEMS, Cambridge, MA

Principal HF/UX/UI Design & Software Engineer

2009-2018

Led UI and UX development efforts for corporate marketing product development and IT applications spanning diverse industries. Created intricate, high-performance web interfaces utilizing Pega's framework technology. Applied advanced front-end skills for user interface development on Pega 6 and 7 platforms. My responsibilities included:

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  • Translated design requirements into software deliverables.

  • Crafting responsive and mobile-first UIs while creating cutting-edge web applications.

  • Communicated design rationale based on principles, human factors, research, and best practices.

  • Developed comprehensive UI wireframes for Pega-specific enterprise web apps using Illustrator, UXPin, Marvel App, and Balsamiq.

  • JSP, Java, REST APIs, SQL, CSS.

Lexalytics, Inc., Amherst, MA
(Remote)

UX/UI Creative Services Engineer
Consultant

2007-2009

Genalytics, Inc., Andover, MA

Sr. Software Engineer

2006-2007

Verizon Labs, Waltham, MA
Superpages.com

JSP/Java Software Engineer (Contract)

2004-2006

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