Sara Sterkenburg
Principal Information Architect
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Sterkenburg is a Staff Product Designer and Information Architect with over a decade of experience shaping complex, regulated digital experiences for government health and services programs. She leads IA and design system governance for large-scale initiatives at the Department of Veterans Affairs, driving measurable outcomes like a six-fold increase in mobile engagement and consolidating confusing readiness standards into a concise, actionable framework. Comfortable balancing research, product strategy, and hands-on design, she uncovers structural problems across multi-team ecosystems and mentors designers to raise delivery quality. Based in Ann Arbor with an MSI from the University of Michigan, she brings a librarian’s attention to metadata and content structure to modern product design, helping translate institutional complexity into usable, scalable patient-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History, History of Art, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History, History of Art at University of MichiganMaster of Science in Information (M.S.I.), Master of Science in Information (M.S.I.) at University of Michigan - School of Information
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
frontend9
digital-humanities8
scientific-visualization5
mobile-application4
documentation3
mobile3
react2
communications2
npm-package1
web-components1
storybook1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sterkenburgsara/sandbox
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Public resources for building on and in support of VA.gov. Visit complete Knowledge Hub:
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 533 pushes in 1 month
govvisitknowledge
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