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4+ years of experience in UI/UX design, software development and product leadership.

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Professional Experience

Head of Product

Runwayz•South Bend, IN•July 2025 - Present
  • Led strategic product development efforts on new product features leveraging industry-standard design and development frameworks like Bubble.io and Figma, while championing innovative AI-empowered development ideologies.
  • Scoped, designed and built numerous features, ranging from an AI-empowered student career quiz, a comprehensive admin dashboard, and seamless product demo features for investors and early product adopters
  • Collaborated with CTO to solidify the core product roadmap in Notion and prepare the product for scale, leveraging strategic leadership, design thinking and early-stage product knowledge.
  • Audited and optimized the product backend, restructuring numerous data types to improve product performance and prepare the Ruwnayz product for the next phase of growth and development.

Founder - Lead Designer & Developer

Donnelly Design LLC•Chicago, IL•March 2024 - Present
  • Built product prototypes and app wireframes with Figma, Sketch and Adobe while employing new design-thinking methodologies and educating founders on effective user experience strategies/research techniques.
  • Collaborated with founders to curate their technical product roadmap, working with their software teams to improve the UX of their products and implement effective design changes that reflect the trajectory of their product/company vision.
  • Delivered end-to-end product development services to numerous clients, founders and early stage startups, utilizing industry-standard development frameworks like Bubble.io, Replit and maintaining strong technical product ownership skills.

Product Developer/Product Development Lead

Platform Venture Studio•San Francisco, CA•Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
  • Scoped, designed, and developed a portfolio of early-stage startups from inception to launch using leading frameworks such as Figma, Adobe and Bubble.io. Demonstrated expertise in creating creating scalable and user-friendly products, contributing to the growth and support of existing portfolio products.
  • Efficiently managed user research and feedback, prioritizing critical insights to inform product improvements and ensure alignment with market demands and business objectives.
  • Worked closely with product founders and managers to create an efficient and scalable product roadmap, utilizing nuanced agile methodologies for product management.
  • Ensured smooth handover of early-stage products to founding teams and engineers for further development and scaling, fostering continuous product growth and innovation.

UI/UX Desiginer & Prototyper

IDEA Center - University of Notre Dame•South Bend, IN•Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
  • Built product prototypes and app wireframes using Figma, Sketch and Adobe while employing new design-thinking methodologies with first-time founders.
  • Coordinated important project milestones for various senior-level team members, leveraging Asana and Microsoft Office tools.
  • Constructed numerous web-development frameworks and products using Bubble.io, React and Webflow for a variety of unique student-led start-ups at the IDEA Center.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Product Design(Minor in Computer Science)

University of Notre Dame•Notre Dame, IN•2017 - 2021

Specific interest in computing & digital technologies with a focus in game development, entrepreneurship and user experience design.

Master of Business Administration(Supplemental MA in Design Leadership from MICA)

Johns Hopkins University•Baltimore, MD•2025 - 2027

A dual-degree program with MICA focused on integrating business innovation with design leadership.

Skills & Interests

Skills

FigmaUI/UX DesignAdobe Creative SuiteUser ResearchProduct StrategyWeb DevelopmentBubble.io

Interests

StartupsMovies & VFXMystery NovelsGame DesignSwimming & TriathlonsSkiingTravel