My Resume

I'm an experienced product design lead with experience in several facets of tech, including e-commerce, retail and service design; publishing; consumer health; AR/VR. I'm a game industry veteran in UI and web/publishing development. I'm also a pianist and historical costumer!

I am a bridge builder; I love my job most when I'm leading UX alongside my product, research, and engineering partners. I help my cross-functional partners understand and prioritize for user needs, and I ship holistic, scalable designs in phased approaches - reducing product bloat, inconsistent/incomplete design patterns, cognitive load and unintuitive experiences.

I am a team and culture builder. I have scaled teams up, down, and transitioned them. I am a fierce advocate for healthy work life balance - users first. I prioritize inclusion and accessibility in design. I build teams with a culture of knowledge sharing, productive critique, crucial conversations, and psychological safety.

I lead. From the front, back, or side; as an individual contributor or a manager. Whatever is the right approach in the moment. I create (and live by) design principles for my teams, to guide us toward robust, scalable, intuitive experiences. I love flexing design thinking to clarify ambiguous problem spaces. My long work history blesses me with a keen sense of intuition, but I firmly base my choices on facts and data.

I am a UX mentor! I particularly focus on mentoring women in UX, UXers with unconventional backgrounds, people interested in career changes to UX, and incoming new UXers. To succeed as a designer - keep your eyes on the north star. Never stop asking the user along the way. Ground your decisions in data, measure the results to guide your next move. Pursue simplicity in your answers to complex questions. Know your worth! Leverage your empathy as your superpower.

Last but not least, I write design haikus. A-hem...

How do we get there?
Design based on empathy
Delights the users!

Check around my portfolio website for more cheeky design haikus - and thanks for visiting!