Where people meet AI, I design the path forward.

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About me

Amateur Titanic historian and ex stand-up comedian. The Titanic sank due to bad luck, but people died due to bad design. Change my mind.

I’m passionate about ethics, sustainability, and justice. I get excited by products that emerge from good ideas, created by good people, to do good in the world.

Design is often dismissed as “nice to have”, until it’s too late, and you’re left with 20 lifeboats for 53% of your passengers. Beyond the tech bubble, design is a lever for empowerment, change, visibility, human connection, and ensuring there’s a lifeboat for everyone.

My story

I’m a self-taught designer who followed heart over credentials. Without money for a college education, I carved my own path; experimenting across industries and even working at Uber and Postmates in their early days before finding my way into product design.

I'm a native Floridian, where I spent the first 19 years of my life in Tampa, Florida. I feel blessed to have grown up surrounded by an abundance of spanish moss, beautiful beaches, the world-famous Cuban sandwich, and plenty of alligators. I spent the next 10 years of my life in San Francisco, where the city lights, bay bridge, cheap beers, Dolores park, Giants baseball games, dive bars, and crashing random start-up happy hours shaped my 20's.

With over 15 years in the tech industry, I’ve built a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges involved in creating lasting impact. I've seen enterprise orgs fail, unicorns be born, and start-ups IPO. The ones who pushed the big button on NASQAD's stage or reached profitability were the ones who poured attention and energy into the talent that came through their doors.

Carefully building a culture centered on collaboration, communication, kindness, and curiosity is what makes the difference between good and incredible, because at the end of the day, the work is only as strong as the team that builds it together. "Go faster alone, go further together."

105+
Successful projects
10+
Years of experiencie

My career

Resume

Thrivent
Staff Product Designer, DAX
May '24 — Present

Design lead for advisor-facing experiences within Salesforce and Thrivent’s financial planning platform, driving product vision and system scalability across multiple teams.

Apollo GraphQL
Staff Product Designer, Growth
Nov '22 — May '24

Led UX for Apollo’s enterprise onboarding experience across self-serve and sales-assisted paths, improving user activation and increasing trial conversion by 300%. Focus: PLG, enterprise SaaS, and developer tools.

Twilio
Sr. Product Designer, Consumer Trust
May '22 — Nov '22

Impacted by layoffs. Led design for Twilio’s data and trust initiatives, creating dashboards that gave customers visibility into data usage and billing, and co-leading trust-based security tiers that improved compliance, fraud prevention, and message deliverability.

Lever
Sr. Product Designer, Compliance
Mar '21 - May '22

Re-architected Lever’s role based access model (RBAC), securing $2.4M in ACV and driving 75% adoption within 3 quarters. Led design strategy for our GDPR self-serve portal, protecting data across regions and generating $1–2M in retention revenue.

Amplitude
Sr. Growth Designer
Jan '20 - Mar '21

Growth design lead focused on experimentation, adoption, and data-driven product loops. Launched “Anomalies and Forecasting” beta feature tested by 900 customer accounts, achieving 17% active engagement through in-app prompts. Drove adoption of anomaly detection, with 800+ of Amplitude’s 2,400 paying customers actively using the feature in workflows post-launch.

RepairPal
Sr. Product Designer
May '19 - Jan '20

Redesigned RepairPal’s core repair cost estimator, enhancing clarity and usability for digital car repair diagnosis, leading to a 27% increase in funnel completion.  Enhanced the post-estimate user experience and trust signals, resulting in a 31% increase in appointment conversions.

Certifications

Leadership Foundations, Adapting Leadership to Behavioral Styles, & Inspirational Leadership Skills: Practical Motivational Leadership
Linkedin Learning
2025
Staff Designer: Influence & Lead as an Individual Contributor
Maven, Credential ID: qIkloZbN
2025
1,000 Mentorship minutes
ADPList, Credential ID 229219
2024
Become a Sustainable UX Designer
Issued by the Sustainble UX Network
2024
Design Leadership at Scale: Director
Maven, Credential ID: acNebTJN
2024
Describing the ROI of Design
Maven, Credential ID: IHPbChTi
2023

Curiousities

Questions you likely have about me.
Can you tell me more about your visual craft?
Absolutely. In my case studies, the visuals were built on top of existing design systems — but my craft shows up in how I apply them: typography hierarchy, spacing rhythm, color usage, accessibility contrast, and micro-interactions that bring clarity. I focus on making complex information feel intuitive and clean, not just consistent.
Have you had to design somewhere that did not have a design system in place?
When systems were incomplete (common at startups), I created new tokens, components, and patterns to fill gaps, always balancing usability with aesthetic polish. I also stay sharp by experimenting with personal projects — reworking flows, playing with modern typographic grids, and testing out motion design. For me, visual craft is the layer that makes strategy and usability resonate.
Why do you job hop?
Most of my roles have been at startups or smaller orgs (<500 people), where leadership turnover creates seismic shifts. In the last five roles, design leaders often left within my first 3–6 months — leaving teams without design leadership or representation. At ApolloGraphQL and Lever, we ended up reporting directly into engineering or product. At Twilio, my director quit on my third day, my manager by week two, followed by layoffs. At Thrivent, I left Apollo to follow a director I deeply respected only for her to depart early 2025.

In environments like these, a designer’s impact depends on ownership, stability, and support. My choices have always been about ensuring I can contribute meaningfully and grow, not about chasing titles or running away.
Why not just stay anyways?
I don’t leave companies lightly. Both paths are difficult: onboarding into a new role takes energy, and interviews can feel like circus rings. The reality of being perceived as a "job hopper" can ruin opportunities before they even begin.

But it came down to this asking myself this: Which is worse?

1) Leave early when it’s clear there’s no room to grow, learn, or make meaningful impact.
-or-
2) Stay put for the optics of longevity, but risk years of shallow work that undersell your true level.

For me, the answer is obvious: let go, or be dragged.
Do you offer fractional support?
Yes. I partner with teams on a fractional basis when they need senior design leadership without a full-time hire. This can look like shaping product strategy, building or extending a design system, running discovery workshops, mentoring designers, or helping ship high-stakes features. Most engagements are 5–15 hours per week, scoped to the outcomes your team needs most.
If you’re interested in fractional support, let’s talk. ⚡️