I have been working on the User Experience team at Gap Inc. since 2017. During my time at Gap I have been promoted from fledgling Web Developer to Sr. Web Engineer to Sr. Engineering Manager acrosss the entire UX organization. I currently have a small team of developers working under me to maintain our design system as well as aid in other UX driven initiatives.
Roles & Responsibilities
Sr. UX Engineering Manager
- Collaboration with product management and UX Director on roadmaps, timelines and resource allocation
- Team growth and learning initiaves such as training and team building
- Continued technical support and consulting across engineering projects
- Interviews and talent recruitment
- Intern managment
Stitch Design System
A design system is a living styleguide with a library of documenation for best practices, design files and usable code for engineers and designers to work together on cohesive user experiences. Stitch is a multi-brand design system used actively by all of our brands to cater to their particular styles and brand missions. See below for the case study
- Lead technical strategy for design system architecture including styling, documenation and delivery of components
- Maintaining a React component library and Storybook
- Maintining a robust documentation site with live examples for each brand
- Technical consulting for teams across the organization using the design system
- Integrated testing strategy for code quality assurance
Web Accessibility at Gap Inc.
Accessibility for the web is a huge part of my work at Gap Inc. both working directly on universal design as well as consulting for technical teams on best practices. My team and I are all W3C Web Accessibility Certified.
- Consulting both designers and developers on a11y best practices
- Working with legal teams on a11y audits
- Contributing to the company a11y newsletter
Case Study: Stitch Design System
Tools
Notable Languages, Libraries and Frameworks
- Typescript
- Webpack
- React JS
- Storybook
- Mocha, Chai, Enzyme, Testing Library
- Handlebars, Jekyll
Administrative
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Jira
- Confluence
- Microsoft Office Suite
- SmartSheets
- Figma, Sketch
- Miro
- Zeroheight