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About Me

Ann Marie Kernen

๐Ÿ’ผ My name is Ann Marie Kernen, and I'm currently a Product Designer at Freddie Mac on the myOptigo platform. Before this I was at Wells Fargo on Small Business Banking Technology, and before that a boutique design agency called Futuresight. At all three, I've mainly worked on B2B and enterprise web applications.

๐Ÿ“ Originally hail from the Philly area โ€” fun fact: if you've ever seen Mare of Easttown, that was filmed in my hometown! But I moved to DC for college, fell in love with the city and been here ever since.

๐Ÿ’ฌ I've been passionate about digital design ever since I was a kid who spent hours designing her Myspace profile... then Tumblr after that... Apparently there's an entire generation of us.

๐Ÿ’œ And if you've made it this far โ€” thank you for checking out my portfolio!

Experience Overview_

Product Designer @ Freddie Mac
  • Digital Product Designer - Oct 2025 - Present
Product Designer @ Wells Fargo
  • Engineering Associate (XD) - Dec 2022 - Feb 2024
  • Product Designer - March 2024 - Present
  • Working as the sole UX designer on an enterprise transformation initiative. Spearheading all aspects of user experience including product design, ADA compliance, and stakeholder management.
UI/UX Designer @ Futuresight
  • UX Design Intern - June 2022 - Sep 2022
  • UX Designer - Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
  • Worked on 3 client accounts, producing wireframes and hi-fidelity mockups, conducted user interviews, and managed internal and external stakeholders
Education
  • BA in Sociology, George Washington University (โ€˜19)
  • UX/UI Design Bootcamp Certificate, Springboard (2021-2022)
Certificates
  • Master UX Design for AI Applications (2025) - Human Centered AI Institute
  • Google Cloud Digital Leader Certificate (2024) Credential ID f21ac768dcfe4f2a9ce50eb8e99aef27