Katie Fusco
Full-Stack Product Designer · AI Design Technologist · Claude Code Architect
(802) 345-7008katie@ignytegroup.comSalt Lake City, UT
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Summary
Staff-caliber product designer and certified AI technologist who translates complex user and business needs into AI-native enterprise experiences — from strategic ideation through production implementation. Certified Claude Code Architect with 5+ years leading platform builds across federal, state, and financial sectors. Results-driven and action-oriented: moves fluidly from insights to concept to execution, prototyping directly in code to compress time-to-product.
Experience
Senior Developer & Tech Lead / Staff Technology Consultant · Ignyte Group
2025 – Present
Massachusetts Exec. Office of Administration & Finance — Legal Case Intake Modernization
  • Designed and built an AI-native CI/CD pipeline using Claude Code to propagate a complex case management application across 4 state departments, automatically adapting to department-specific business logic.
  • Rebuilt an 800+ object enterprise application in under one month with a 2-person team, serving ~150 end users.
  • Led end-to-end technical architecture and interaction design, independently owning design and delivery across multiple workstreams.
Florida Department of Health — Permitting & Licensing Modernization
  • Owned end-to-end systems design from discovery through UAT across 200+ license types, 40 regulatory boards, 194 reengineered subprocesses.
  • Designed and deployed an AI-native knowledge base using Microsoft Copilot — prompt-engineered against full project documentation — eliminating institutional knowledge silos.
  • Facilitated cross-functional workshops; delivered functional prototype through UAT Round 1.
Design Strategy & Technology Consultant · Ignyte Group
2022 – 2025
Nasdaq — Index Management System, Index Launch, Corporate Actions & Calendar Management
  • Wrote and presented a UX strategy to Nasdaq leadership that shifted the project from development-led to design-led — accepted and executed across the full portfolio.
  • Led UX overhaul of IMS used by 30–40 analysts managing thousands of indexes monthly — drove measurable adoption and satisfaction lift.
  • Designed, prototyped, and shipped 4 interconnected enterprise applications; integrated REST APIs; co-managed CI/CD pipeline.
Financial & Planning Specialist · UVM Medical Center
2019 – 2022
  • Managed $1M+ in grants; identified $250K+ in annual savings through budget analysis and unified billing system design.
Independent Ventures
Birdseye · iOS App — In Development
2025 – Present
  • Building a consumer iOS bird identification app using Claude Code with multi-modal AI — image recognition, sound analysis, and natural language description — targeting App Store release.
Skills
AI & Prototyping
Claude Code (Certified Architect), Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud
Development
JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, REST/JSON APIs, Appian (Sr. Developer Certified), GitLab, iOS/SwiftUI
Data & Analytics
Databricks (Certified Data Analyst), data architecture, integration design
Design Practice
AI-native experience design, conversational UX, prompt engineering, enterprise UX, design systems, IA, UX research, usability testing, WCAG accessibility, business process reengineering
Collaboration
Cross-functional leadership, stakeholder workshops, narrative communication, product strategy, roadmap planning, Jira/CI-CD
Certifications
Claude Code Architect · Anthropic
Certified Data Analyst · Databricks
Appian Senior Developer · Appian Corporation
UX/UI Design · Burlington Code Academy
Education
B.A., Philosophy & Economics · University of Vermont, Burlington VT
2019