About me

Managing and working on a variety of team sizes and structures over the course of my career, I've had the fortune to become a jack of all trades with mastery of more than just a few skills.

I like to get my hands dirty and help solve difficult, creative, technical problems.

Design Systems

The nerdy intersection of maintaining brand integrity, creating usable and accessible patterns, and establishing systems that reduce design and development debt by reaching across the aisles.

My front-end development background paired with my project management skills and organization dovetailed nicely into my work with design systems.

Relevant experience

  • Establishing and directing a global approach for two main design systems aimed at marketing and software development
  • Synthesizing best practices from premier design system thinkers and applying philosophies, methods, architecture and processes within bespoke design sytems
  • Applying intent within other systems, e.g. Material Design and Fluent
  • Establishing design token architecture, addressing brand, design, and development needs
  • Ensuring decisions are backed by research and data while working within an agile environment

Incusive and accessible design and development

I believe that design patterns and applications must consider and meet the needs of all users, providing equal opportunity and access to all.

Relevant experience

  • Testing brand and user interface patterns across neurotypical and neurodivergent populations
  • Creating accessible WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 AA compliant designs and HTML
  • Establishing accessibility guidelines and testing processes for design systems
  • Implementing dark mode, with extensive research and experience aligning with brand expectations
  • Championing accessibility standards across global entities with stringent and unique accessibility regulations

Branding

Creating a brand story. Using color palettes, fonts, graphic elements to convey the brand message. Having a blank slate to tell a story is incredibly rewarding.

Relevant experience

  • Designing logotypes
  • Working across modern brand delivery channels to optimize color palettes for accessibility
  • Extending design language to adapt to unique brand challenges
  • Understanding and adapting brands to global and cultural requirements
  • Brand user affordance testing

User interface design and development

I love putting it all together — the design systems, the research, the system goals — and creating a stellar, usable product.

Relevant experience

  • Designing, and developing multiple UI pattern libraries
  • Designing custom applications for deployment across mutliple operating systems and viewport types
  • Maintaining and distributing Figma UI pattern libraries and toolkits to support vendors and additional teams
  • Integrating design system thinking early in the product design process
  • Ensuring the brand integrity and intent is addressed within applications while maintaining an ideal user experience
  • Designing websites, mobile applications, patterns, and system templates

User experience research and design

A user's experience — positive or negative — makes or breaks a product. I've had the fortune of being able to focus on many areas within user experience research and design across corporate websites and software products.

Relevant experience

  • Conducting user research to inform design decisions
  • Developing and using personas
  • Creating wireframes for corporate websites and applications
  • Broadening stakeholder understanding of the ROI of UX with improved performance on key applications
  • Conducting usability testing and user affordance testing

UX Guidelines and UX writing

A design system isn't useful unless it can be shared, explained, and used. Explaining how things work — to various audience types — is crucial for overall success.

Relevant experience

  • Creating technical documentation, guidelines, and examples to support content creators and developers
  • Creating simplified documentation and guidelines for marketers and communicators using the design system
  • Spearheading intiatives to capture documentation within modern design system content management systems
  • Implementing end-to-end guidelines for all phases of product design: wireframe, design, development, testing