I bring empathy and strategic vision to collaborative product teams.

About
As a Senior Product Designer, I'm passionate about designing software with teams and releasing useful tools that help people with real-world challenges.

I'm often recognized for my ability to see the big picture, collaborate on priorities, and create design deliverables that are useful and adaptable to agile development teams. I have a knack for balancing an ambitious product vision with the constraints of reality to release the best possible features to our users.

Skills
Product Design: Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Visual Design, UX Design, User Research, User Testing, Prototyping, Ideation and Design Thinking, Storytelling, Scope Planning, and Planning for Incremental Releases and Agile Development. Tools: Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, Zeplin, Sublime (HTML & CSS), GitHub, and a variety of product planning tools.
Experience
  • Product Designer
  • MobilizeAmerica
  • July 2018 - March 2019

  • Product Designer
  • AdmitHub
  • December 2016 - July 2018

  • Product Designer
  • Newsbound
  • 2015 - 2016

  • Product Designer
  • Formation Data Systems
  • 2013 - 2015

  • Visual Interaction Designer
  • IDEO
  • 2013 & 2014

  • Product Designer
  • Couchsurfing
  • 2012 - 2013

  • Lead Designer
  • Grockit
  • 2009 - 2012

  • UX Designer
  • Pivotal Labs
  • 2006 - 2008

Education
  • Bachelor of Arts
  • Art & Biology (Double Major)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz

Volunteer
  • NorCal League, NICA
  • Coach, San Francisco High School Composite MTB Racing Team

  • Tech for Campaigns
  • Designer, Virginia 2019 House of Delegates Election