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About Me

Hi, I'm Pat — a Senior Staff Product Designer based in the Bay Area with 9+ years designing products that make complex things feel simple.

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I came up as an animator, which means I've always thought about design as storytelling — how someone moves through an experience, where they get stuck or light up. That instinct has shaped everything I've done across fintech, B2B, and consumer products at Visa. I stay current with emerging tools including AI-assisted design and generative prototyping — not as a trend, but because better tools mean better work.

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I'm looking for my next chapter at a company where design has a real seat at the table — and the problems are worth solving.

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Experience

2022 - 2025

A snippet of my career

2021 - 2022

2018 - 2021

2017 - 2018

Senior Staff Product Designer

  • Led end-to-end UX for complex, multi-platform fintech experiences including a Visa x Microsoft B2B pilot reaching 250+ small business owners — translating ambiguous problems into scalable user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes

  • Led design on an internal prototyping tool from 0-to-1 — building reusable components for Visa's global design teams across North America, UK, and Singapore. When the project was picked up by a dev team, contributed to redesigning the request flow for admin users.

  • Leveraged AI-assisted design tools for generative prototyping, research synthesis, and persona development — maintaining an active practice of emerging tool evaluation

  • Established design innovation frameworks, mentorship programs, and team culture initiatives that elevated craft and collaboration across the organization

Staff Product Designer

  • Designed the mobile-first FIS Global Bill Pay Solution — a 16-month end-to-end engagement spanning research, strategy, wireframing, and high-fidelity design focused on clarity, speed, and trust

  • Shaped Albertsons' NFT/crypto payment strategy by balancing emerging technology with real customer needs within a complex software ecosystem

  • Facilitated cross-functional workshops translating user research into actionable product opportunities, prototyping and validating concepts through user testing

Senior UX Designer

  • As lead designer, oversaw a five-person team designing the Visa Concierge mobile app across the Super Bowl, Olympics, and FIFA World Cup — reaching a global audience and reducing drop-off by approximately 40%

  • Spearheaded 0-to-1 product concepts and proofs of concept through full end-to-end design including research, ideation, wireframing, prototyping, and user testing

  • Led Visa Pay in China and Visa Smart Shopping Cart — simplifying complex checkout and payment flows through intuitive interaction design that scaled across markets and devices

Senior Visual Designer

  • Designed 50+ digital and print assets including website banners, marketing collateral, and educational materials

  • Built cohesive brand systems through logos, style guides, and templates that improved internal campaign engagement by 15%

Skills

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Product Design

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  • End-to-End Product Design

  • 0-to-1 Product Thinking

  • Design Strategy

  • User Research & Testing

  • Interaction Design

  • Prototyping & Wireframing

  • Design Systems

  • Cross-functional Leadership

  • AI-Assisted Design & Emerging Tools

  • Figma / Figma Make

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Visual Design

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  • Typography & Color Theory

  • Brand Systems

  • Visual Communication

  • Image Editing

  • Print Design

  • Adobe Suite

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Animation & Storytelling

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  • Storyboarding

  • Conceptual Design

  • Motion & Video Editing

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