I’m a design engineer based in Philadelphia with a focus in building UI for web apps. Over my career I’ve worked with different companies to create design systems, bridging the gap between design and engineering to ensure best-in-class user experience and front-end infrastructure.
I'm currently looking for my next position. If you think I'd be a good fit for your company, please reach out at sayhi@helenvholmes.com.
- AI Mapping UI, Transfer 2024
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Built out the AI Mapping UI tool for Modern Treasury's reconciliation engine, which allowed users to visualize and connect data columns in their own software against MT's. Unveiled at Transfer 2024.
Engineering Colleague: Mafaz Chaudhry
Designer: Alden Spence
2024 - ModernTreasury.com Redesign
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Built out the redesign for ModernTreasury.com in a quarter with a hard deadline for the yearly Transfer conference. Built with NextJS, Sanity, Tailwind, and TypeScript, and was completely self-serve for the content team upon finish.
Tech Lead: Jason Barone
Designers: Frank Chimero, Ryan Essmaker
2023
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Staff Design Engineer,
Modern Treasury -
Maintained the design system, built app UI, and redesigned the
marketing website for Modern Treasury, a company modernizing money
movement.
2022—2024 -
Senior Design Engineer,
New York Public Library -
Built the NYPL design system as a package to power dozens of apps. Evangelized the system internally.
2019—2021 -
Product Designer,
Self-Employed -
Worked with clients such as Fastly and Github to code microsites,
produce five conferences, and design an app.
2017—2019
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Senior UX Designer,
Developer Tools, Mozilla Firefox -
Designed in close collaboration with the developers to build out
better user experiences on Firefox’s Developer Tools.
2015—2016 -
Front End Developer
Capital One -
Built out web, iOS, and IoT prototypes for the design team for
experiences that needed more than Invision.
2014—2015
- The New School
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Coursework, animation & interior design
2018 - American University
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Graphic design (major), French (minor)
2009—2013
- The Corcoran
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Coursework, drawing, painting, & pottery
2009—2013 - University of Virginia
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Coursework, Russian language studies
2008
- Technologies
- Typescript, React, JavaScript, GraphQL, CSS, Tailwind, HTML
- Disciplines
- UI/UX design, Animation, Graphic design