Ashlie Feng

fengashlie@gmail.com | 312.961.7660 | Chicago, IL | www.linkedin.com/in/ashlie-vaughn-feng/


UX/UI DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Innovative professional with an eye for design. Known for supporting a wide range of projects and campaigns and consistently achieving set objectives. Excels in fast-paced environments, collaborating across all lines of business to support executive suite, marketing, and project teams. Sought after for managing confidential matters with discretion to support the mission of the organization. Committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive climate to resolve issues, improve efficiencies, and minimize downtimes. 

CORE COMPETENCIES

UX/UI Design | Project Management | Researching and Testing | Design | Technically Savvy 

| Information Architecture | Interviewing | Team Leadership | Prototyping   


PROJECTS

Design of Tailored Clothing App

  • Collaborated in a team of three to create an app to help organize your closet

  • Through research and design, we defined the optimal solution to satisfy user’s needs

  • Figma, Slack, Trello, Invision, GSuite, Zoom, Adobe

Redesign of Department of Interiors Website

  • The project ran for three weeks in a group and individually for user research, ideation, designs, prototyping and testing

  • Invision, Figma, Slack, GSuite, Zoom

Redesign of the Chicago Underwater Hockey Website

  • In a team of three we completely dissected the current site and redesigned it for optimal utilization

  • Canva, Figma, Slack, Trello, Invision, GSuite, Zoom

Redesign of the Chicago Pet Rescue Website

  • Team project ran for three weeks to discover, define, develop and deliver on a new design for the site.

  • Figma, Slack, Gantt Charts, Invision, GSuite, Zoom, Adobe

    RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

HKS Architecture – Chicago, IL                  

08/2018 – 01/2022

Executive Assistant & Office Manager                                

Provided administrative support to architects, interior designers, urban designers, scientists, and artists with a mission to create places that delight, heal, and stimulate peak performance. Assisted Marketing with a multitude of design presentations. Collaborated with the marketing team on proposals and projects to design competition submissions, delivering campaigns/projects and events with a focus on deadlines and milestones.  

  • Acted as Project Manager responsible for leading a team of professionals in completing projects by a set deadline to uphold business initiatives.

  • Assisted in the creation of architectural project proposals

  • Selected as office representative for Mindful Materials (library aggregates product sustainability information), effectively minimizing redundancies for manufacturers and designers. 

  • Advocated for positive studio culture, employee engagement, and people success by fostering a collaborative and inclusive working environment. 

Johnsonville Sausage, LLC – Chicago, IL                            

03/2014 – 08/2018

Executive Assistant to Vice President of Innovation & Office Coordinator 

Employed executive-level administrative support for VP of Innovation and Consumer Insights, serving as gatekeeper on scheduling, communications, focus groups, meetings, presentation preparations and travel. Managed fast-paced calendar and synchronized travel, speaking engagements, and conferences. Trusted with confidential information and NDAs. Created POs and approved vendor invoices. 

  • Directed logistics of multiple focus groups and assisted the insights team in researching and testing as well as conducted interviews and facilitated compelling presentations. 

  • Acted closely with management and project managers in managing the life cycle of multiple projects. 

  • Entrusted with final formatting for key Excel and PowerPoint documents distributed to senior leaders and the Board of Directors.

  • Functioned as the first line of communication, screening inquiries and enabling 10-person team time for high-level tasks to ultimately strengthen efficiency. 

  • Recognized by leadership for exceptional performance in coordinating small to large events (up to 34 in 1 year), including Board of Director meetings, liaising effectively with business heads and vendors.  

  • Oversaw the implementation and development of new scheduling processes for small to large focus group meetings held at the Innovation Center.

TECHNICAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Technical: Figma, Slack, Trello, Invision, GSuite, Zoom, Adobe, InDesign, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, Microsoft (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook); Chrome River Expense; Egencia Travel Management; Concur Travel/Expense software, CRM, Salesforce

EDUCATION

Attended Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Northwestern University, Chicago, IL -UXUI Design Intensive Bootcamp (6-month program), Certificate Received 8/21/2022

  •      Coursework: Research; Storytelling; Design; Prototyping; Website Design; App Design; Information Architecture; UI Branding