Hi, My name is Gabrielle.
I'm a creative, user-centric problem-solver whose expertise lies in my passions
--- UX/UI Design, Accessibility &
Front-End Development.
I fell in love with the web the moment I was introduced to “the internet.” The combination of technology, design, creativity, and community felt magical to me from the very beginning. While teaching myself HTML on my Gateway computer in high school, I dreamed of becoming a Disney Imagineer and designing immersive digital experiences for the most magical place on earth — Disney World.
During college, I began my career as a Web Analyst Co-op at Sherwin-Williams Corporate Headquarters. Through that experience, I had the opportunity to attend an Information Architecture Institute (IAI) conference hosted at Progressive Corporation , where I had the realization that I wanted to dedicate my career to helping people interact more intuitively with technology.
One of my first information architecture projects was the redesign of the Corporate HR Employee Benefits site. During that project, I also took the initiative to teach myself CSS, combining my growing passion for user experience with front-end development and visual design.
MoreIn 2008, after a recruiter casually asked whether I knew how to use a camera and PowerPoint, my career in technical communications unexpectedly began at Fluke Biomedical. What started as a fluke quickly evolved into a rewarding career path, eventually leading me to opportunities with Philips Healthcare and Nelson Stud Welding.
Beyond technical documentation, I also created marketing materials, visual communications, presentations, training content, and video-based media — experiences that strengthened both my storytelling and visual design skills.
My background in technical writing gave me an incredibly strong foundation in UX: developing empathy for users, asking the right questions, simplifying complex information, and translating technical concepts into clear, engaging, and visually intuitive experiences.
MoreI worked full-time throughout college while earning my Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Cleveland State University in 2009 and later my Master of Science in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM), with a focus in User Experience Design, from Kent State University in 2014.
After beginning my career at Sherwin-Williams, attending an Information Architecture Institute (IAI) conference, and discovering the IAKM program at Kent State, I realized I wanted to build a career focused on bridging the gap between technology and the people using it.
To support that goal, I intentionally shaped my education around a broad range of disciplines — including business, communications, design, research, technology, and psychology — giving me a well-rounded perspective that continues to influence my approach to UX, visual design, and digital experiences today.
MoreI relocated from Ohio to Northern Virginia after accepting my first dedicated UX/UI Designer role at CACI International.
During my first six years supporting the Media Services Center, I served in a variety of roles including Accessibility SME, Lead Designer, and Designer/Developer, advocating for users across more than 20 projects ranging from employee-facing websites to mission-critical applications. To better support development efforts, I also taught myself JavaScript and expanded my front-end engineering skills alongside my design work.
After returning from maternity leave in 2021, I felt ready for a new challenge and transitioned into a UX Designer role on the AMOD program, where I was quickly promoted to UX Team Lead. In that role, I helped drive accessibility, design system, and UX consistency initiatives across the program before the contract concluded in 2022.
Following redeployment within CACI, I accepted a Front-End Developer role to deepen my experience with modern frameworks and component-based development. While contributing to the newest application, I continued advocating for stronger UX consistency, scalable design systems, and more cohesive user experiences across the broader application suite.
Most recently, I stepped into a Senior UX/UI Design Lead role focused on modernizing enterprise experiences and elevating the overall visual and user experience strategy. In this role, I led UX direction, redesigned workflows, improved information architecture, and helped shape more intuitive, polished, and user-centered applications while collaborating closely across product, development, and stakeholder teams.
Over the course of my career, I’ve realized that what drives me most is creating meaningful digital experiences that balance usability, visual design, strategy, and technology.
While I enjoy both design and front-end development, I’m especially drawn to opportunities where UX, branding, and thoughtful design are truly valued as part of the product vision. My background allows me to bridge the gap between design and implementation — transforming complex ideas into polished, intuitive, and impactful experiences.
As I look toward the next chapter of my career, I’m excited to continue growing as a UX and visual design leader while helping create modern, user-centered experiences that support meaningful missions.
I worked alongside Gabrielle for three years while at CACI and she never failed to impress me.
Gabrielle was an amazing person to work with, fun, hard working, always learning, and most importantly: extremely talented. She always had the ability to complete a project under even the toughest circumstances, always delivering above-and-beyond; impressing the customer consistently.
With a natural talent for design, user experience (UX), user interface (UI) design and development, she is always challenging the "why" from the user's perspective and offers creative solutions that not only make the interface easier and less cumbersome, but look and feel just as good. Her ability to work within and learn various codebases/frameworks--sometimes concurrently--quite seamlessly is simply the icing on the cake.
I couldn't recommend Gabrielle more highly. Her raw talent coupled with her ability--and eagerness--to learn and grow doesn't come along everyday.
I hired Gabrielle as a UX/UI Designer at CACI and managed her for several years. I was impressed by her experience and her experience proved to be invaluable. She comes highly recommended.
Her enthusiasm, flexibility and natural talent made her a solid asset to our team. It didn’t take long for her to ramp up. Gabrielle is a fast learner - she was quick to adapt to our design process and to become quite proficient in JavaScript.
Gabrielle not only has the chops to design and develop stunning sites, but she has the skills and expertise to craft compelling user experiences. Her background and passion for UX shined through in everything she did. .
I had the opportunity to work with Gabrielle on multiple web projects.
Gabrielle was excellent in UI and web page design and development. Her coding was skillful, her designs were unique and innovative, so clients were always happy.
She was always thoughtful and considerate, an excellent team player who can also work independently and do a fantastic job.
She is very highly recommended.