Roles: Design Lead - Admin, Settings & Alerts for VantusHQ, a retail pharmacy e-commerce ordering & management platform.

Design

  • Demonstrated leadership and mentorship by coordinating, delegating, and tracking both planned and ad-hoc work, while effectively communicating trade-offs to product stakeholders

  • Collaborated with other leads and designers to establish consistent behavior patterns in the design system

  • Advocated for user research beyond usability testing, and conducted interviews of subject matter experts

  • Developed a comprehensive checklist for designers to enhance consideration of interaction states before development handoff

  • Identified and addressed process improvements within design team operations.

Research

  • Conducted heuristic evaluations and created robust Axure prototypes for usability testing

Sr. UX Consultant (contract)

Cardinal Health • June 2023 – April 2024

Projects:

  • Retail price management

  • Multi-factor authentication (Okta)

  • License management

PRoduct designer

Chewy • Sept 2021 – Jan 2023

Projects:

Side Projects:

  • Hackathon: Adopted Pet Registries

Roles: Prescriptions/Orders Design Lead & Clinic Success Design Lead for PracticeHub, a digital prescription management tool

Design

  • Educated stakeholders and partners on the differences and considerations of capturing and analyzing NPS for a B2B SaaS product

  • Streamlined Chewy account connection process and designed capabilities for finding prescriptions faster, resulting in fewer duplicate accounts and increased task efficiency for 75% of prescriptions written by 1,000+ clinics

  • Established 3 reusable components for use-cases that didn’t previously exist in the existing design system

  • Advocated for the design team’s needs in strategic conversations with stakeholders around how the new analytics toll will provide value for the product team

  • Initiated conversations about enterprise design system requirements by auditing existing product design to identify inconsistencies, design system gaps, and accessibility issues

  • Worked within considerable technical constraints to design capabilities for users to find prescriptions faster for both desktop and native mobile app experiences.

  • Held weekly collaboration sessions with product, engineering and other cross-functional partners

Research

  • Advised on the strategy for implementing NPS as a measurement of clinic success and designed the in-app survey experience reaching 3,605+ users with an 8% response rate.

  • Designed and executed research study consisting of a survey and moderated card sort with 7 veterinarians. Results informed future efforts to redefine Rx status taxonomy and information hierarchy that would align with veterinarians’ mental models


User Experience (UX) designeR

Optum • Apr 2018 – Sept 2021

Projects:

Side-Projects:

Role: Internal UX consultant for multiple enterprise & B2B products across Unitedhealth Group (parent company) business lines

Design

  • Created storyboards, journey maps, and user/process flows to gain alignment with project stakeholders in an Agile environment

  • Leverage industry best practices and company brand standards to produce intuitive and user friendly designs while adhering to accessible design practices to meet WCAG AA standards

  • Evaluated and identified inconsistencies and lack of structure within existing information architecture and navigation of a reporting tool by mapping out 50+ available reports; resulted in increased discover-ability and reach of reports

  • Utilize process analysis expertise and systems-level thinking to discover overlooked use cases, find inefficiencies or inconsistencies, and outline product workflow

  • Prepared low fidelity sketches, high fidelity wireframes, and prototypes to drive a shared vision for additional features within a suite of data quality management tools; resulting in significant cost-savings from discontinuing a third-party contract.

  • Provided support materials to engineers to implement the overall design effectively

Research

  • Conduct user discovery interviews to gather context, insights, paint points and opportunities for existing products

  • Moderate small-scale guerrilla usability testing and A/B testing to ensure that users’ needs and expectations were being met


Technology Associate

Optum • Jun 2017 – Apr 2018

  • Contributed to the front-end development of a claims processing workflow tool

  • Analyzed opportunities for proof of technology concept for ambient sensory technology, including “aging in place” home healthcare monitoring and the primary care intake process

  • Met regularly with users in a focus-group for feedback on changes before pushing to production

  • Completed Aquent Gymnasium’s UX Fundamentals course


Education

UMass – Amherst • Class of 2017

  • Degree: Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) – Operations & Information Management, IT Minor

  • Related classwork: High Performance Organizations (Toyota way, human-centered thinking, innovation), Information & Project Management, Service Industry Operations, Business Process Simulation, Business Intelligence & Analytics


Skills, Tools & Training

  • Skills: design thinking, human-centered design, agile practices, enterprise/B2B experiences, process flows, user interviews, journey maps, personas, information architecture, card sorts, surveys, service blueprints, dashboard design, accessible design, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, conversational UX, object-oriented UX, process simulations

  • Tools: Figma, Sketch, Axure, Miro, Trello, Rally, Jira, Github, Lucidchart, UserTesting.com, Optimal Workshop, Arena, Gainsight PX

  • Training:

  • Information Architecture (American Graphics Institute)

  • Service Design & Journey Mapping (Optum via Smaply)

  • Data Visualization Webinar Series (Optum – Data Viz Community of Practice)

  • Taking Control of Agile UX Intensive (Center Centre by Jared Spool)


Recommendations

Mya is one of the rare people who appreciates a good process
— Designer @ Cardinal Health
Mya has been instrumental in unblocking questions from the dev team and making way for them to move forward that significantly helped the team with the deliverables. Not only that, but she has the urge to do things right and is open for feedback constructively no matter how much effort it takes.
— Engineering Tech Lead @ Cardinal Health
Mya executes with thought, grace, and fire. Her attention to detail in all branches of UX is unmatched. She’s such a forward thinker and an eloquent presenter. Our team would absolutely not be a success without all her hard work and dedication to digital transformation and enhanced UX! She is a breeze to collaborate with, extremely creative, and takes the time to dive deep into knowing the ins and outs of each product and solution she’s tasked with. We will truly miss her has teammate and leader.
— Product manager @ Cardinal Health
I had the pleasure of working alongside Mya. She consistently delivered exceptional designs and solutions, showcasing a keen understanding of user needs and a talent for crafting intuitive interfaces. Her collaborative nature and dedication were truly commendable, making her an invaluable asset to our team. I highly recommend Mya for any role where creativity and expertise in user experience are valued.
— Front end Developer @ Cardinal Health
I had the pleasure of working with Mya at Cardinal Health, and I can confidently say she is outstanding. Mya worked as the lead designer on our squad, while I the lead researcher. What I admire most about working with Mya is her proactive approach to collaboration. She consistently inspired the team to come together, encouraging us to walk through existing experiences to uncover opportunities for improvement, and actively participated in research brainstorms, offering valuable insights and collaborating on innovative solutions.
— Researcher @ Cardinal Health
Mya’s talent goes beyond her design expertise; she brings a positive energy to the team dynamic that makes every project fun. I wholeheartedly recommend her for any UX design or lead role.
When Mya started reporting to me I have to admit I didn’t know too much about her. We worked in the same group, but on different remote projects with different clients so had not had a chance to really interact directly. I’m so glad that over the course of our time together I not only had a chance to be her manager, but had a chance to work directly with her on one of UHC’s more complex provider-facing initiatives as well.
In that time, I saw Mya’s confidence as a UX Designer grow tenfold! Her analytical abilities, rooted from her background in business and operations, translated extremely well to her role. Sharp, hard-working, resourceful and exploratory, as her skills with our tools grew, so to did her talent for solving some of the biggest problems that faced our application. Taking an iterative approach that was rooted in the work we were doing in consumer-centered design, Mya has an instinct for intuitive design that far exceeds the time she has spent honing her craft. Always questioning and searching for the best possible answer, she has proven herself as a huge asset, guiding our clients to the best possible outcomes with a pen-to-paper approach that proves the value to our users.
All in all, it was a pleasure to work with Mya! She is talented person and a joy to work with. Her enthusiasm for design thinking permeates all the things that she does and her willingness to share that enthusiasm with others is what makes her an exceptional UX Designer and great employee. Couple that with her love of art and her (somewhat secret) abilities as an artist and I can only hope that I have a chance to work with her again some time in the near future!
— Design manager @ Optum
I had the pleasure of working with Mya over my 2 1/2 years with Optum. Mya was brought into the group as a UX designer and quickly picked up the skills necessary to make her a key part of any product team at the company. She leverages her background in operations to understand challenging business problems and uses her creative and artistic sense to solve those problems in unique ways. Mya brings a fresh perspective to all of her projects and will continue to be a strong asset to any team and company that she is a part of.
— Researcher @ Optum