Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS)

May 2025-Dec 2025

Washington, D.C.

CSBS is the nationwide organization of banking regulators from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

UX Design Return Intern (Sep 2025 - Dec 2025)

  • Partnered with Product and Engineering to redesign the NMLS Resource Center information architecture; validated through tree testing with 50 users, achieving 50% task-completion improvement across 10 common searches.

  • Synthesized insights from 60+ product interviews for the State Examination System (SES) to identify user behaviors and key pain points, directly informing the product roadmap.

  • Facilitated fly-in sessions with regulators nationwide to map 3 SES workflows, generating a backlog of 9 prioritized improvements now under development. 


UX Design Intern (May 2025 - Aug 2025)

  • Led UX initiative to improve self-service support for the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS), used by 64 state agencies to regulate financial services; reduced navigation time by 50%.

  • Mapped user journeys for 6 NMLS workflows through 9 semi-structured interviews and analysis of 900+ ServiceNow support cases, identifying 25+ pain points that informed prioritization for the Resource Center redesign.

  • Presented findings and opportunities to senior stakeholders, including VPs and Product Managers, resulting in a shared backlog informing the NMLS Resource Center redesign.

UX Design Return Intern (Sep 2025 - Dec 2025)

  • Partnered with Product and Engineering to redesign the NMLS Resource Center information architecture; validated through tree testing with 50 users, achieving 50% task-completion improvement across 10 common searches.

  • Synthesized insights from 60+ product interviews for the State Examination System (SES) to identify user behaviors and key pain points, directly informing the product roadmap.

  • Facilitated fly-in sessions with regulators nationwide to map 3 SES workflows, generating a backlog of 9 prioritized improvements now under development. 


UX Design Intern (May 2025 - Aug 2025)

  • Led UX initiative to improve self-service support for the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS), used by 64 state agencies to regulate financial services; reduced navigation time by 50%.

  • Mapped user journeys for 6 NMLS workflows through 9 semi-structured interviews and analysis of 900+ ServiceNow support cases, identifying 25+ pain points that informed prioritization for the Resource Center redesign.

  • Presented findings and opportunities to senior stakeholders, including VPs and Product Managers, resulting in a shared backlog informing the NMLS Resource Center redesign.

PFF, LLC (Capstone)

Sep 2025-Present

College Park, MD

PFF, LLC is a leading consulting firm specializing in providing comprehensive solutions for small to midsize organizations across the United States.

UX Designer

  • Own end-to-end design for a budget forecasting and formulation tool to help emergency management organizations efficiently plan and allocate resources, modernizing workflows from a legacy system with fragmented usability.

  • Mapped 10 end-to-end user flows of the legacy InCEP tool to identify 15+ usability gaps that informed AI integration points for document parsing, auto-generated summaries, and error detection.

  • Created 5 personas and defined product vision and information architecture through user stories and how-might-we’s.

  • Built high-fidelity prototypes using AI tools such as FigmaMake and Lovable, accelerating iteration cycles by 80% for stakeholder demos.

Digital Engagement Lab (University of Maryland)

Nov 2024-May 2025

College Park, MD

Research Assistant

  • Owned creative direction and interface design for Smart Story Suite, an AI-assisted news categorization tool.

  • Designed 20 mid-fidelity web screens in Figma; conducted 5 paid moderated usability sessions comparing 2 homepage variants and 3 news-category navigation options using think-aloud and post-task probes.

  • Improved SUS score from 52 to 80.3 by shipping the variant that incorporated participant feedback.

Laboratory of Inclusive Design
(IIT, Roorkee)

Nov 2023-Jun 2024

Uttarakhand, India

UX Design Intern

  • Conducted primary and secondary research on accessibility issues for the Mumbai Transit System, identifying five critical pain points and proposing solutions to enhance the user experience

  • Illustrated 20+ technical visuals for a government-backed project handbook, improving transit accessibility for 1.2 million daily commuters through inclusive design

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