2024 - 2025 | Royal Caribbean Group

Design System Manager

RCG Design System

As Design System Manager at Royal Caribbean Group, I manage the growth and evolution of the Royal and Celebrity dual-brand design system, ensuring alignment with team and company goals. I lead the creation of new processes, oversee Figma libraries, conduct design audits, define system standards, streamline workflows, and guide adoption and onboarding. I also mentor designers and foster strong cross-team collaboration to support high-quality, consistent design across the organization.

  • Drive design system operations by establishing intake processes, governance frameworks, prioritization models, release cycles, and clear communication pipelines

  • Lead multi-team design system programs and architecture spanning tokens, color systems, theming, components, motion, accessibility, documentation, engineering workflows, and brand alignment

  • Partner closely with product, engineering, brand, accessibility, and cx teams to align requirements, streamline workflows, and support delivery

  • Develop high-quality documentation, usage guidance, motion specs, and content rules that improve product velocity and design quality

  • Guide adoption through demos, office hours, onboarding, education, and transparent communication of updates, best practices, and roadmaps

  • Mentor designers and component owners to elevate quality, support contribution, and strengthen cross-team collaboration

  • Shape the design system’s identity through naming, narrative building, and value storytelling that improves adoption and alignment across the organization

2022 - 2024 | CNN

Senior Staff Product Design

Vossi Design System

Responsibilities include building a new Design System for CNN from the ground up. Orchestrating and managing the enhancement of intake and governance processes, shaping current and future Design System standards to align with organizational objectives. Contributing to design kits, strategic prioritization, roadmap development, OKR alignment, and implementation of growth strategies for the DS team.

  • Spearheaded Vossi DS increased UX efficiencies, maturity, and expansion efforts, overseeing the training, guidance, and leadership of a growing internal DS team and broader CNN design community

  • Managed intake and governance initiatives working with core desktop, mobile, and audio visual teams to manage platform design system intake and design kit development

  • Played a pivotal role in crafting standardized component designs, prototyping, streamlining architecture, leading design audits, led documentation guidelines and best practices, while also unifying Figma design kits across diverse product core and sub-brand verticals while reducing component redundancy by 3x

  • Led the architecture of Vossi DS new process flows, including leading office hours, and fostered strong relationships and active involvement among hybrid designers within CNN design teams and cross-functional communities

  • Streamlined workflows and tools to enhance outreach, education, and adoption of the design system

  • Managed and mentored DS designers, content writers, and 20+ product designers, onboarded teams to the design system, and gathering feedback for continuous improvement

  • Collaborated across engineers, product designers, and other product verticals

2019 - 2022 | Wells Fargo

Principal Product Design

Pioneer Design System

At Wells Fargo I directed the Northstar vision of the DS brand and document site, elevating the product brand and establishing a content hub, while pioneering ecosystem-level asset creation and contributing to application design. Steered UX strategy, encompassing architecture, visual design, and content creation for the innovative Pioneer Design System's self-service product offerings and processes.

  • Contributed to the management and planning of design Sketch and prototyping toolkits, mobile analysis, and the development of component, pattern, and global element design and usage specifications

  • Led persona development, mobile analysis, and the creation of component, pattern, and global element usage specifications, driving product design and management of the WFRIA API reference application

  • Provided consultation and workshops for designers, developers, content strategists, quality engineers, and leadership on design system road-mapping, supporting materials, analytics, and standards.

  • Facilitated outreach, training, and DS orientation sessions, while developing communication planning strategies with digital and product teams for release and road-map cycles

  • Spearheaded research and proof of concept activities related to CMS technologies and processes, while serving as a manager and mentor to DS and product design departments, including content design and UX designers

  • Act as manager and mentor to DS and product design departments, including content design and UX designers

2017 - 2019 | Chase Bank

VP UX Lead Design Strategist

Chase Design System

Headed the creation of DCE ethos principles as well as led design language and design system strategies to support JP Morgan and Chase Bank brands for the Chase Design System. Conducted comprehensive design system analysis for Chase mobile applications, leading weekly mobile workshops, identifying the mobile design system, and documenting mobile components and patterns.

  • Oversaw desktop and mobile cross-brand, cross-tribe design system audit, contributing to the identification of a broader design system ecosystem to support next-generation consolidation across desktop, mobile, and various JP Morgan and Chase brands

  • Contributed to design foundation, component, and pattern design and documentation

  • Managed design system outreach, fostering relationships and processes among other product, design, and engineering teams

  • Engaged in project collaboration, management, and mentorship of other UX designers, strategists, and writers within the design system team and across various digital design teams and channels

Resume