work experience
GENERAL MOTORS – Detroit, MI | 2021 – 2023
UX Designer and Curator
- Increased net promoter scores for employee engagement and retention by providing access to services and information using tools such as wireframes, sitemaps, storyboards, personas, and user journeys.
- Facilitates cross-functional partnerships (Benefits, HR, IT) to define user needs, business capabilities and strategies in order to design and continuously iterate experience blueprints and process maps that deliver human-centered and holistic solutions across the organization.
- Coached and partnered with stakeholders in a holistic process encompassing the following:
- Initial review (proposal, quantitative and qualitative research)
- Development and ideation (stakeholders map, process flows.)
- Design, review & iteration (journey maps, service blueprints, prototyping).
- Successfully launched more than thirty UX projects with global scope by managing, documenting, and understanding customer needs and goals in order to better support HR needs.
GENERAL MOTORS – Detroit, MI | 2018 – 2021
Service Designer and transformation lead
- Designed end to end experience through development of journey map, service blueprint and prototyping, influenced by critical user research and competitive landscape analysis, to create a holistic service that offered self-directed and assisted cross-over touch points and consistent communication.
- Reduced call center volume by designing company processes and systems that gave more access to benefit information such as bereavement, maternity, retirement, etc.
- Improved company culture and inclusiveness through the implementation of solutions that adjust to millennial employees trends and needs
FDH VELOCITEL – Raleigh, NC | 2015 – 2016
CAD Designer I
Engineering company specialized in designing, building, optimizing, and maintaining broadcast and wireless infrastructure in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Designed Auto CAD blueprints for wireless network sites and created reports to the customer’s specifications detailing all the equipment within the site.
- Exceeded the company’s daily site targets by 50%.
SANKEI DESIGNS – Guatemala, GT | 2012 – 2016
Founder & Design manager
Industrial and graphic design project developer in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
- MV CONSULTING Developed brand and corporate image.
- GUGU VALLE, MAKE UP STUDIO Developed brand and corporate image.
- BODEGUITAS PUERTA PARADA Increasing market share and sales by 60% by designing advertising campaign.
Education
College for Creative Sturies, Detroit, MI | 2016 – 2018
Master in Integrated Design
- Honorable mention for exceptional merit in the field of Integrated Design.
Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala, GT | 2007 – 2012
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design
- Cum Laude
- Honorable Mention in Undergraduate Dissertation: “ Injection Mold Redesign for New Product Development”.