Professional experience
I’ve been privileged to design solutions in a variety of industries through more than a decade of design expertise. My variety of experience and industry exposure is a key professional strength—I bring a lot to the table. Through my career I’ve worked with an array of incredibly smart people. From my peers, and through diverse business circumstances, I’ve learned a lot about the rights and wrongs of user experience design at scale. Below is a high-level breakdown of my professional experience.
Senior Product Designer
csDISCO
2022-Present
Concerned by the rapid—and devolution—of legal institutions and precedent in the United States, I joined the team at csDISCO to help shape the future of legal technology. At DISCO, I’ve been focused on designing innovative deposition management, legal production, and Ediscovery search solutions.
Product Designer
ActiveCampaign
2020-2022
Building online messaging, SMS, and website personalization solutions in the context of marketing automation.
Senior UX Designer
CloudBees
2019-2020
I worked with a fully distributed team to reshape the user experience of the world's most powerful CI/CD tooling. This role involved unique open-source design constraints and significant operational design challenges.
- UX strategy and design to revitalize legacy CI/CD products
- Design work for forthcoming, cutting-edge products
- Design research to understand users and unique DevOps challenges
- Collaboration with a global community of open-source contributors
- Collaborating with other designers to form a ResearchOps function
- Collaborative design and maintenance of two design systems
- Consistent documentation of design projects and methodology
- Deeply collaborative work with cross-functional peers
Disney Experience Designer
The Walt Disney Company
2018-2019
At Disney, I helped build internal tooling for Cast Members around the world. I also dabbled in brand design, leveraging and contributing to the organization's unique legacy of storytelling prowess.
- Visual identity design work for various internal projects
- Extensive brand research to inform visual identities
- Research-driven, large-scale illustrations
- Collaboration with cross-functional peers throughout the global org
- Holistic UX strategy and UI design for internal products
- Thorough design documentation
Product and Visual Designer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2015-2018
At HMH, I designed digital-first education platforms for a global audience. I was also an advocate for modern DesignOps, helping to instill modern design techniques in a rapidly evolving organization.
- Holistic UX strategy for products with a global audience
- Thorough design and interaction documentation
- Regular research to understand pedagogical constraints
- Rapid creation of prototypes for diverse interactions
- Cross-functional collaboration throughout long-term product life cycles
- Designing national and global education brands for millions of customers
- Designing thorough brand guideline documentation for internal teams
Freelance Designer
2010-2020
I've worked in a freelance capacity with companies ranging from lean startup organizations to massive global corporations, including AIGA, NeoReach, Kore, LeaseCake, and many others.
- Thorough usability audits to inform UX strategy
- Helping clients solve diverse user experience challenges
- Web application and website design
- Mobile application design
- General user experience and DesignOps consultation
- Visual identity design for startups and established companies