Hi

My name is Ulises!

I am a multidisciplinary designer with over 10 years of combined experience in branding, graphic design, architectural design, and user experience design.

I hold a Master’s degree in Architectural Design from MIT, and was recipient of the ‘MIT Architecture Graduate Student Fellowship Award’.

During my last semester at MIT, I joined enterprise software startup Smarking as UX/UI lead, establishing the brand of the company while refreshing the interface of a data analytics tool used by select garage managers in the United States. When working with Smarking, we were accepted into the Winter 2015 round of Y-Combinator, and secured a seed round of $3MM USD shortly after.

After my time with Smarking, I moved to New York to become Head of Design at the TechStars-backed startup, AdHawk. AdHawk is a mobile app that aggregates a company's digital marketing data, and offers them one-click optimization solutions to improve their campaign's performance. I Joined in AdHawk in 2015, and was with the company from pre-product, to a $2.5MM annual revenue.

As Lead Product Designer at Notarize, I'm tasked with building and overseeing the in-house product design team. Our current goal is to design and build the Notarize Mortgage Platform, enabling title companies and lenders to seamlessly close loans 100% remotely for the first time in the Mortgage industry.

I have a passion for working with fast growing startups, and providing them with the vision, brand identity, and user experience design that positions them for optimal growth.

Design Skills

Wireframing
Mood Boarding
Personas
Journey Mapping
Rapid Prototyping

Software Skills

Abode Creative Suite
Sketch
InVision
Axure
Balsamiq

Development Skills

HTML 5
CSS 3
Javascript/ES6
Jekyll/RoR
Angular
React