Hard skills

Adobe Creative Suite

  • Illustator
  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
  • Adobe XD

Microsoft Products

  • Excel
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Power Bi
  • Miro

soft skills

  • Empathy
  • Time Management
  • Teamwork
  • Creative Thinking

Languages

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (Fluent)
  • French (Basic)

Additional
information

  • Full US work permit authorization (Permanent Resident) •
  • About me: mom to a 2.5 year old, a Golden Retriever, and a Dachshund; I love to travel and cook; pottery enthusiast

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”.