Currently

Principal Designer and Founder, By Tomo
August 2021 — Present
Founded a micro product design studio focused on highly technical, specialized domains across verticals including aerospace, developer tools, education, catalogs, and media. Clients include Buck, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Momento, Pearson, Planet, Yale Peabody Museum, and a variety of emerging stealth startups.

PREVIOUSLY

Senior Product Designer, Carbon Five
September 2019 — August 2021
At Carbon Five, I've partnered with clients including Ad Council, ClearMetal, and Compass consulting on best practices for managing robust design cultures and building engaging digital experiences. I help clients institute design processes to hit milestones in their product evolution. My expertise is in using light-weight methods like storyboarding and sketching to build consensus, and turn startup visions into tangible, executable solutions.

Product Design Consultant, Motiv8
September 2020 — February 2021
Leading design production efforts with Motiv8. Currently standing up their in-house design infrastructure, leading research campaigns on their first interactive prototypes, partnering with the founders to define design milestones, and helping with design hiring efforts.

Senior Product Designer, HBO
August 2018 — October 2019
Focused on building intuitive design solutions for HBO GO/NOW features and manifesting new design paradigms for the strategic evolution of the new Warner Media platform.

Senior User Experience Designer + Strategist, NASA’s JPL
September 2017 – August 2018
Led the design effort for rover planner and telemetry downlink analysis software suites. I defined the design strategy with a focus on how the capabilities of the new software would map to the nuances of the Mars 2020 rover operations processes.
I advocated for design decisions through storyboards and visualizations that contextualized new behaviors in real spacecraft operations scenarios. 

Lead User Interface Designer for Mars 2020, NASA’s JPL
August 2016 – September 2017

Science Systems Engineer I and Researcher, NASA’s JPL
June 2015 – August 2016

User Experience Designer and Researcher, NASA’s JPL
August 2013 – June 2015

Student Associate Designer, Boeing
August 2012 — December 2013

Interaction Designer, Teague
June 2012 — August 2012
Intern focused on the interaction design production work in partnership with Teague consultants

Education

University of Washington, Design School
Bachelor of Design, Interaction Design

University of Washington Design in Rome 
Interaction Design Study Abroad Student

Volunteer

BEAMS San Francisco
June 2020 — Present

Summerbridge Program with TechNYC
May 2020 — September 2020

Mentor, University of Washington Capstone
June 2016 — June 2017
Mentored design students researching Mars 2020 Capstone projects with University of Washington’s School of Design, and School of Human Centered Design and Engineering. 

EVENTS

Carbon Five Design Mentor Night Host Jan 2020
Carbon Five Design Mentor Night May 2019
Amazon Internal Talk May 2018
SIGCHI ’Design on a Mission’ May 2017
NASA’s JPL Women in STEM March 2016, 2017
University of Washington HCDE Talks February 2017

AWARDS

NASA’s Software of the Year Award 2018
NASA’s JPL Team Award - Rover Sketching 2018
NASA’s JPL Team Award - Design Simulations 2017
NASA’s JPL Team Award - Vortex 2016

SKILLS

Figma
Adobe Creative Suite
Strategic Visualization
Storyboard development
Video editing / Videography
Sketch app
Light-weight paper prototyping
User testing / user evaluation
Camtasia
Omnigraffle
Principle
InVision
Certificate for Front End Web Dev(familiar with HTML,JavaScript, CSS)