Professional experience

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.

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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.
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Product Designer

ActiveCampaign 2020-2022

Building online messaging, SMS, and website personalization solutions in the context of marketing automation.
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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
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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
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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