About Me

I am a Senior UX Designer with over 12 years of experience crafting powerfully intuitive customer experiences ranging from enterprise management tools to consumer productivity software on web, native mobile, and desktop. My primary goal as a designer is to delight and empower users by finding elegant solutions to complex customer problems. With a strong foundation in design fundamentals, years of experience integrating Design Thinking methodology, customer research, and design systems into my process, I bring an innate ability to craft simple, intuitive, and engaging experiences while always keeping customer needs at the forefront.

What I bring to the table

• A detail-oriented and fact-driven approach to putting customer needs first when designing products.
• Strong presentation skills when seeking approval from leadership and stakeholders.
• I am always evangelizing Design Thinking principles and a customer-first design approach.
• I ask why (a lot), I always challenge assumptions, and I am constantly striving to improve my skills and my process.
• I am experienced managing small internal design teams and external design vendors, acting as a mentor for younger designers, and pushing my teams and colleagues to up their game, not just to meet our customers needs, but to exceed them.

Key Skills

• Designing elegant, intuitive, and functional products.
• Cross-team collaboration with development and product groups.
• End-to-end product design ownership.
• Presenting designs to high-level product stakeholders and org leadership.
• Design Thinking principles and design approach.
• Leading internal design teams and managing external design vendors.