about
Long before I knew what UX design was,
I was already doing it in spirit — sketching, observing, trying to understand why things looked and felt the way they did.
But the moment that actually explains how I think happened in 8th grade science class. A video about an anthropologist who could examine skeletal remains and reconstruct an entire life — age, social status, how someone moved through the world — stopped me cold. The idea that you could read a person's story from careful, patient observation of details became something I've never let go of. It's exactly what I try to do as a designer: look past the surface, find the real shape of a problem, and build something that actually fits the people using it.
.experience
12+ years
.location
Chicago (CST)
.hello
My career has taken me from branding and visual design into UX, information architecture, and now into the strategic design work I find most energizing — defining how AI should behave in complex enterprise products, shaping the systems that other designers build within, and making sure the people who use what I design actually feel that someone thought about them.
Moving between industries has made me a more adaptive designer. Every domain brings its own users, constraints, and mental models — and the ability to get up to speed fast, find the real problem, and build frameworks that scale is where I do my best work.
My process is deeply analytical during discovery, grounded in a front-end development background that keeps me close to how things actually get built.
My background in video and motion graphics shapes how I think about flow, timing, and attention — the invisible qualities that make an interface feel alive rather than just functional. I care about craft at the pixel level and strategy at the organizational level, and I believe the best design work creates shared language that prevents entire categories of future problems.
Outside of work, I share life with my wonderful partner, daughter, and our beloved puppers. We spend a lot of time hunting for treasures at antique stores, catching movies, spinning records, discovering new music, and exploring new places whenever we can. When I get solo time, I'm usually drawing, painting, or attempting to play music. I read constantly — science fiction, fantasy, ancient history, anything about space. Whether I'm creating or learning, I'm happiest when my curiosity has somewhere to go.
.work experience
.stack
Lucid
diagramming
Pendo
usage tracking
Sprig
user testing
WordPress
web design
HTML
coding
CSS
styling
