I like building things.
I'm a product designer with 10+ years of experience, and the through-line is that I like to build: design systems, research practices, features, and sometimes the team around them. I've been the only designer in the room, and one of nine designers aligned around a single component library at Southwest.
How I work
Find the constraint, then build.
In short: find the real constraint first, let real signals change the plan, ship a smaller real version before the big one, and build foundations into the work instead of against it.
The long version, with the receipts, is on How I Operate.
How I lead
Put people in position to succeed.
I played volleyball professionally, where six people share a court and everybody covers for everybody. The game taught me an empathic way to read a team: understand the dynamics, find each person's strengths and weaknesses, and put them in position to succeed, because the team's success is the goal. I put myself on that list too: I try to be honest about my own strengths and weaknesses, keep working on the weak spots, and know my limits.
I also try to assess what the business needs, understand how the team works together, and accommodate those needs, morphing my role to suit the team like a chameleon of sorts. At Money.com I ran one-on-ones, syncs, and critique for a four-person design team, and I started a mentorship program for junior designers. I'd rather pair with engineers than throw designs over the wall. The wall is usually where the details go to die.
Where I've worked
Ten years, four teams.
Mar 2025 – Present
Game Caviar
Principal Product Designer
Sole designer and 6th hire.
Nov 2021 – Sep 2024
Stellar Elements
Lead Experience Design Consultant
Enterprise clients including Southwest Airlines, ExxonMobil, FedEx, and Dell Technologies.
Sep 2018 – Sep 2021
Money.com
UX Design Lead & CRO Specialist
Began as a Senior UX Designer and was promoted. 2019 Innovator of the Year, a company-wide award.
Sep 2014 – Sep 2018
Teladoc
Senior UX Designer
Contributed to the Teladoc app, which won a 2016 One Show Gold Pencil.
Companies & clients
Different industries, same approach.
Nine companies, nine industries, and the tools I designed for.
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ExxonMobil
- Industry
- Energy
- Tool
- Streams — Enterprise for Technology Research and Development teams
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Southwest Airlines
- Industry
- Air Transportation
- Tool
- WOLF & Jetstream Library — Enterprise for Dispatchers
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Money.com
- Industry
- Financial Publication
- Tool
- Funnel & Campaign — Responsive Web
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Game Caviar
- Industry
- Gaming & Development
- Tool
- Game Caviar — SaaS Marketplace for Studios with Outsourcing needs
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Comcast Business
- Industry
- Cable/Broadband
- Tool
- Core & Comcast Select — White-label Enterprise Sales Management
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Dell
- Industry
- Computer Hardware
- Tool
- SupportAssist — Personal computer diagnostics and management
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Apiture
- Industry
- Fintech
- Tool
- Xpress — Mobile Banking App
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FedEx
- Industry
- Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain
- Tool
- Surround — Digital Monitoring for shippers
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Teladoc Health
- Industry
- Telemedicine
- Tool
- Teladoc app & website — Consumer telehealth, mobile and desktop
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Outside work
Strategy, with doodles.
I coached volleyball too. These days it's chess, and I've been making art since I drew Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in first grade. The common thread is probably strategy, with doodles.
Get in touch
Say hello.
If something here sounds like the kind of problem you're working on, I'd like to hear about it.