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Paulina Henkel
Product Designer · Product strategy & coordination
Summary
Product designer (B.S. Digital Design Engineering) working across UX/UI, product structure, and coordination with engineering, clients, and field teams. Recent work spans a web product for monitoring and compliance-style workflows (SiVeCa), infrastructure-related delivery with Cisco, startup product and ops (Trato Hecho), venture-ecosystem support (La Ruta VCC), and live programmes run with the same discipline as shipping software. For more than fifteen years I have also led HUMI, a community academy and operational platform—cohorts, events, staffing, and local work opportunities for young coaches. Figma-led design, clear documentation, and pragmatic use of AI for research and drafts—never as a substitute for judgment.
Skills
- Product & UX/UI design
- Cross-functional coordination (PM, eng, clients, field)
- Workflow-heavy interfaces and service patterns
- User research and facilitation
- Data visualization for operational decisions
- Event logistics, run-of-show, participant experience
- Prototyping (Figma)
- Specs, documentation, content
- SEO and product communication
- AI-assisted research and drafting
AI Products — Built Independently
Proof — AI-integrated wine production traceability platform
- Designed and built a lot-tracking system covering the full winemaking pipeline (harvest → analysis → fermentation → malolactic → aging → bottling), with an LLM-powered conversational interface for managing production lots via natural language (tool/function calling).
- Stack: Supabase (PostgreSQL), REST APIs, LLM API integration, GitHub. Sole designer and builder — data model, workflows, prompts and UX.
- Built and deployed a management system for taekwondo academies and inter-academy logistics — currently in daily use by my affiliated organization; roadmap to expand into other activity verticals.
- Owned the full cycle: problem discovery with real users, data model, AI-assisted workflows, frontend, deployment and iteration in production.
Experience
Field & Product Experience — Cisco
2023 – Present
- Contributed to technology and infrastructure projects for private and federal clients, supporting real-world system integration into digital environments
- Conducted on-site operational and safety analysis, connecting real-world systems with digital product workflows
- Supported product design processes by translating technical requirements into user-centered solutions
- Managed client communication and follow-up to align product delivery with stakeholder needs
- Designed and shipped the SiVeCa product site and core product surfaces as part of broader client delivery work
Product & Operations — Trato Hecho (Startup)
2020 – 2021
- Contributed to product development strategy and workflow definition in an early-stage startup
- Designed website and digital content aligned with UX and brand positioning
- Created UI concepts and prototypes using Figma
- Supported frontend prototyping and iterative product improvements
- Developed content strategy for social media and product communication
Operations & Product Support — La Ruta VCC
- Supported startup scouting and onboarding processes within a venture ecosystem
- Debugged mobile and desktop user flows to improve usability and performance
- Managed client onboarding and data integration into digital platforms
- Led client acquisition and guided users through product adoption
- Bridged communication between users and technical teams
Projects
SiVeCa — Web product for monitoring & decision workflows
- Technical liaison between CEO and IT across product and delivery decisions
- Repository auditing and a parallel technical workstream alongside client delivery
- Translated NOM regulatory requirements into product logic and review-heavy flows
- Designed and built the company landing site end to end (https://www.siveca.com.mx/)
- Structured inputs and outputs so operators and reviewers share a trace from reading to documented action
- Owned enough SEO and content for industrial and program audiences to find the product
Education
She Codes
Front-End Development Program · HTML · CSS · JS · APIs · GitHub · Bootstrap
2021
CETYS Universidad
B.S. Digital Design Engineering
2011 – 2016