Hi, I'm Jehnean

Crafting digital experiences that look, feel, and function joyfully

years full-time UI/UX design experience

Helping solve UX problems with research, ideation, prototyping, validation methods, and great design

Full-stack web development immersive graduate in 2016

12-weeks. All day, every day. Learning the skills to become an entry-level web developer, launching full-stack web apps

Award winning clean, user centered design

Three W3 Silver Awards for Community Websites and two Davey Silver Awards for Interactive Multimedia and 3D

BFA Computer Animation & Interactive Media, FIT

Studied 2D & 3D animation, production, motion graphics, interaction design, and computer programming concepts

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Work experience and education

2017-Current employer in Seattle, WA Senior interaction designer at Google.com

As a Senior Interaction Designer at Google, I currently lead design initiatives for Team Graph within Google Core, where I focus on organizing and presenting complex relationship data between People, Teams, Products, Features, and Systems across the company. My work ensures internal tools are intuitive and impactful for cross-functional collaboration.

Previously, I led design initiatives for Kubernetes Engine, GKE Enterprise on-premises, and Anthos within Google Cloud, helping developers and DevOps engineers deploy and scale containerized applications. I also contributed to the Serverless team, designing for orchestration products like Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Scheduler, improving the developer experience for cloud-native solutions. Since joining in 2017, I’ve worked across key Google products, consistently driving user-centered design to enhance cloud platform experiences.

2016-2017 employer in Seattle, WA Senior user experience designer at Amazon.com

Creating authoritative and scalable shopping experiences for customers and self-service tools for vendors on the Vertical Stores team, I worked to solve customer shopping challenges, create new features to solve customer frustrations, and improve existing features.

2016 in San Francisco, CA UI developer at Swirl.net

As a UI developer with Swirl.net, I combined both design sensibilities and technical skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to redesign Juniper.net

2016 student in San Francisco, CA Web development immersive graduate from General Assembly

Completed 12 week immersive program for full-stack development skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, to Ruby on Rails, web APIs, and data-driven, CRUD web apps, while applying industry best software development practices in a collaborative, agile work environment.

2007-2016 Interaction designer and founder at ToyBox Media, LLC

Founded a digital agency where I engaged in all aspects of projects throughout their lifecycle, from buy-in to launching websites, web apps, and mobile apps to highest standards for clients like Hilton, MGM Resorts, and small businesses.

2013–2014 in Las Vegas, NV Senior UI/UX designer at Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Worked with the product and marketing teams, external web agencies, contractors, and engineering teams to design, built out and maintain white-label websites apps for casino clients, as well as new slot machine games, services, and promotions.

2012-2013 in Las Vegas, NV User interface artist at GarageGames

While conceptualizing original ideas to bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex video game and software interfaces, I operated as liaison between art and engineering teams to create cohesive, intuitive customer experiences.

2010-2012 in Las Vegas, NV Senior web designer at Diamond Resorts International

Worked on the Creative Team to design and develop international and regional websites, brand style guidelines, corporate identity materials, commercials, e-blasts, and print materials with support for 14 languages in 220 countries.

2007-2010 in Wilmington, NC Creative interactive designer at Provis Media Group, LLC

Created visual design solutions for websites, video content, web apps, and marketing materials for clients including American Express, T-Mobile, Aramark Higher Education, and Cisco Systems.

2005-2007 student in New York, NY Bachelor degree in 3D computer animation and interactive media from the Fashion Institute of Technology

Graduated top of my class and summa cum laude

2002-2004 student in Wilmington, NC Associate degree of fine arts from Cape Fear Community College

Graduated summa cum laude

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