Hola, I’m Maria!

Program manager and strategic communicator helping organizations scale and grow talent. Experience with UX research, strategic design practices, and effective stakeholder management and new program development.

  • Led 7 design projects

    across 5 lines of businesses, in partnership with cross-functional teams

  • 6 years of experience

    in communications, project and program management, research, and strategy across tech, education, and financial services

  • Engaged 42 designers

    in 2-year full-time development program and summer internships across 3 cities

Creating a scalable pipeline of junior design talent

Capabilities: Program management, recruitment, managing budgets, and executive cross-functional partnership

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Projects

Designing a project-based training program

Capabilities: Design project management, vendor engagement, strategic program development

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Shifting left and adopting discovery practices at scale

Capabilities: Workshop facilitation, process mapping and visualization, and research

Coming soon!