Cat Buntrock

Frontend Designer & Developer at Meta /
Currently based in OC / Business Grad & Web Design Certified

Education

San Francisco State University

Class of 2012

Business Communications

Sessions College of Professional Design

Class of 2014

Web & Graphic Design Certificate

Skills

End-to-end Web Design
Web Development
Visual Design
Branding & Identity
Sketching & Illustration
Design Systems
UI/UX Design
User Research & Testing
User & Task Flows
Storyboarding & Wireframing
Email Marketing & Development
Reusable Code Libraries
Web Content Management
Problem Solving

Tools

Figma
Adobe Creative Suite
HTML / CSS / JavaScript
Sketch, Framer
InVision, Craft, DSM, Zeplin
Microsoft Office, SailThru
Litmus, Mailchimp

Awards & Recognitions

Mindsparklemag - Site of the Day
Medium - Hybrid Designer, featured Designer

Work Experience

Meta Frontend Designer & Developer

2021 — 2024

  • Design new user-facing web features for internal wiki system and microsites.

  • Execute on all phases of the design process—from wireframing and designing brand visuals to completing engineering handoff. Ensuring technical feasibility of UI/UX designs, using highly efficient user-flows and mockups.

  • Work cross-functionally with multiple steak holders, lead projects and communicate effectively and efficiently.

  • Ensure deliverables are understood and milestones are met. Ability to handle multiple projects in fast-paced environment.

Adobe Growth Designer

2020

  • Storytelling through brand and product lenses using creative design tactics, including animation and illustration.
  • Create an experience through a number of touch points across the customer journey to achieve different goals.
  • Actively identify and drive growth outcomes using system-wide design thinking and design solutions from interaction flow to user interface.

StyleSeatSenior Visual Designer & Developer

2018 - Dec 2019

  • Led the overall design vision, producing high-quality visual designs for product and marketing, from concept to launch.
  • Designed and built custom landing pages and dynamic HTML emails, developing creative assets that simplified complex messages, increasing site visits by 35% with improved email marketing strategy.
  • Collaborated with Product, Marketing and Engineering teams with strategy, user flows, design system, and brand identity.
  • Created user interfaces, interaction flows, wireframes, visual mockups, and user stories, and evolved visual design guidelines.

Gymboree GroupWeb & Brand Designer,

Contract 2018

  • Rebrand and development of design patterns and style guidelines for Janie & Jack brand.
  • Execute the visual design for brand assets across website, emails, social media, banner ads, print collateral & landing pages. Implemented site flips and product line updates for all e-commerce site, ensuring cohesive quality user experience.
  • Transition to mobile-first responsive design drove site traffic and sales 32%.

Gap Inc Web Developer

2016 - 2017

  • Develop and maintain HTML/CSS/JSON/JS for existing and new web pages, incorporating visual design into functional web pages while ensuring quality, responsive, well-tested code.
  • Created display banner animations and was responsible for bringing storyboard to life with custom design & code.
  • Developed new web layouts that improved user experience and reduced bounce rate by 28%.

FreelanceBrand Design, UI Design, Web Developer

2014 - Ongoing

  • Build custom websites that meet specific business objectives/client needs. Responsible for all stages of creative process.
  • Over 50 projects for more than 30 clients.