Recommendations

From my initial interactions with Diane, it quickly became evident that she was highly regarded by her colleagues as a respected and influential leader. And over the many months that I have been interacting with her and essentially being her mentee, I can say with confidence that they were not wrong to view her that way.

She has shown quick adaptability to changing requirements and timelines. She has led educational seminars at a large scale to teach others about the importance of UX/UI Design. She advocates for others to take initiative so we can learn and be better through our own efforts. She ensures that we are equipped with all of the necessary educational materials that we might need to accomplish our tasks effectively. She takes the time to physically work with you 1-on-1 to ensure that you feel comfortable with whatever challenges you think you might face.

And lastly, she doesn’t just think on an individual level, but at an organizational level as well by advocating for things like more design standardization beyond what is currently in place so that we as a company can continue to be seen as united and provide the best level of service for all of our many users. All in all, it would be an honor to work under her direction.

Anmol Singh. UX Designer, GridForce, National Grid

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I worked with Diane on National Grid’s account management user community project. She is very creative while designing application UI/UX. She takes feedback from all stakeholders of the National Grid United Web Portal application to make sure UI/UX addresses all those points and issues. Also, she collaborates with developers to go the extra mile out of her role to deliver team goals.

Saurabh Pol, Salesforce Tech Lead at Deloitte

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Diane is an extremely hard worker and a huge value add to any team. Her vision for UX in solving complex problems, conducting user interviews, performing design sprints/jams, and helping me, personally, manage our team backlog has been extremely helpful for our team development and our organization as a whole. A huge thanks to her! She will benefit any organization she is a member of.

Daniel Weissenhoffer, Software Program Manager, Captain, USAF

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Everybody always endorses people for their hard work, but Diane is not only productive and creative, but she’s also a pleasure to have around. She’s got a great heart and is everyone’s favorite. I will miss her dearly, but wherever she ends up will be lucky to have gained a gem. I hope our paths converge again one day!

Joseph Corrado, Software Engineer, Fleet Management, KesselRun, USAF

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It would be hard to fit into this small space what a valuable colleague Diane is. Versatile, skilled, organized, and caring, she is proactive in her approach and incredibly insightful. Always the first to volunteer for the challenging assignment and to help others she is an incredibly valuable asset on any team.

Jess Gangi, UX Designer at KesselRun, USAF

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Diane is a great person to work with. She is a great communicator and an extremely hard worker. I have seen her work when pressure is built up and she handles it great. Diane is a driven, enthusiastic, and talented designer. Her designs are wonderful, and she loves to work with the users to get what they want accomplished. Diane has strived to continue to learn what other people on her team are doing and always looks for ways to step in to get the job done. Anyone would be lucky to have her on the team.

Tanner Hemphill, Portfolio Owner for the Torque Applications at Hill Air Force Base

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Diane possesses a great ability to take complex UX/UI problems and develop beautiful designs in a fast and efficient manner. She’s a great team player, she communicates clearly, and it’s an absolute pleasure to work with her. Her work is great because she’s empathetic to the needs of users and strongly desires to develop the best possible solution.

Daniel Pauley, UX Software Design Engineer at Leidos

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Diane is an enthusiastic, driven creative professional with a unique sensibility who cares deeply about the quality of her work. She has a strong combination of web developer and visual designer skills and is exceptionally diligent and detailed oriented.

Diane is personable, friendly, a team player, and is always willing to jump in and lend a hand when needed.

I strongly recommend Diane Saia and hope to have the opportunity and pleasure to work with her again.

Michael Rielly
Director of Marketing, Rhode Island Novelty

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Diane has a great combination of talents that includes creativity, technology prowess, and a very strong passion to expand her knowledge. Those skills, combined with a team that leverages modern B2B digital marketing techniques, create the environment necessary for success.

After a few design review sessions where Diane studied our brand identity, our existing materials, those of the competition, and some discussions about our buyer personas and the buying cycle, Diane started to produce digital and offline assets that were successful at meeting their targets.

On the technical front, Diane was able to quickly configure her local machine with Drupal, connect to company systems and tools (Marketo etc.), and install the tools she needed to create our digital assets. She did this in cooperation with our technical teams here and abroad.

Diane’s unique ability to rapidly develop and implement creative solutions using the tools and technologies at hand – brought quick success to our inbound content marketing program.

William Toll
VP, Marketing ProfitBricks

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Diane is quite simply the most versatile, talented, hardest working creative professional that I know. She is highly adept at graphic design, web design, web production, art/creative direction, photo direction, electronic file preparation and print production, and conceptualizing the “big idea.” Many in the creative world have mastered one or two of these areas but Diane is an expert in all of them. I can recommend her without hesitation to anyone in need of a gifted, well-rounded creative professional who possesses an incredible work ethic.

Vin Saia
VP, Client Relations at Global Experience Specialists (GES), formerly Exhibitgroup/Glitspur

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Diane is an enormously talented designer and art director. Her gift is in creating visually inviting artwork that specifically supports the overall objective of a project, be it marketing, sales, fundraising, or collateral support. Diane’s capabilities span a variety of platforms, industries, and media and she is a consummate professional. I highly recommend her.

Vic Schlitzer
Nonprofit Marketing — Creative, Strategic and More

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Diane taught a computer web tools class to three department heads. She designed our Fine Arts website and taught us to use various tools (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, GarageBand, iWeb) to maintain it. She was extremely knowledgeable, clear, and affirming. Diane was always courteous and professional, an effective communicator, and a patient and effective teacher. I recommend her unreservedly.

John Guevremont
Department Chair at Mount St. Charles Academy

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Diane was a student of mine at CDIABU. She was a very hard-working student. She was a very strong participant in class, asking very good questions. Her class project was done well and exceeded requirements. Diane goes the extra mile in her work and I happily recommend her.

Forbes Graham
Web Developer at Harvard University