Dana
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Dana

Product Design in Low Earth Orbit, she/her

good enough is enough

7 months ago

About

Building sustainable + humane software for space domain awareness.

Work Experience

2023 — Now

Product Designer hire 1 / team of 1.

→ Building 0-1 software features + design ops. Leading design for all on-orbit capabilities for space domain awareness, orbital analytics, and mission command & control (C2). Building a 1.0 design system + docs for React UI development.

2021 — 2023
San Diego, CA

Product Design hire 1 / team of 1.

→ Responsible for all product design, branding, product marketing, and design ops for ML-enabled Titan™ C-UAS counter drone team

(Prev. Citadel Defense)

2021 — 2021
San Diego, CA

Product Design hire 1 / team of 1.

Citadel Defense was acquired by Arlington Capital Partners in Nov 2021.

→ Lead product designer for ML-enabled Titan C-UAS™ Counter Drone System ($75M+ in sales; 9 industry innovation awards)

2020 — 2020
New York, NY

→ Interim social media management

2019 — 2019
New York, NY

→ Social media + design internship
→ Prototyped a new web e-commerce checkout flow to increase purchase conversions by 30%

2016 — 2017
New York, NY

→ Visual design intern

Side Projects

2021

Designed a speculative visualization framework to identify opportunities for cross-disciplinary conservation efforts within urban-ecological conflict zones.

Education

UC San Diego

Speculative Design + Environmental Studies
D1 Athletics