Resume
13 years building products. The last few building the infrastructure that makes them.
About me
I'm a product designer who works at the boundary of design and engineering, building systems, tools, and workflows that scale design impact without scaling headcount.
I got here gradually. Early career: traditional product design across agencies, startups, and scaling SaaS teams. Mid-career: design systems became my primary medium. Recent work: AI-native infrastructure. A design system with a custom MCP server, an agentic prototyping workflow, a comprehensive accessibility audit. Things most designers don't build because they require operating in code.
I'm technically fluent. I ship React components, write Python, build MCP servers, and work directly in engineering codebases. I use Claude Code as my primary development environment. The quality of what gets built still depends on the decisions driving it. That part hasn't changed.
Skills
Design
Design Systems · Information Architecture · Product-Led Growth · Agentic Design Workflows · Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA / APCA) · Design Tokens · Data Visualization · Figma
Technical
TypeScript · React · MCP (Model Context Protocol) · Claude Code · Python · Storybook · Tailwind CSS · Code Connect · Figma REST API · axe-core
Experience
Staff Product Designer
Built CorsaDS: an AI-native design system with 40+ React components, 120 semantic color tokens, and a custom MCP server. Defined a 3-phase AI strategy bridging design and engineering, presented to product and engineering leadership company-wide. Led UX strategy for Spark Assist platform evolution.
Lead Product Designer
Standardized UX across 4 products with a 100+ component design system. Designed an AI-assisted growth planning tool. Launched a subscription-gated roadmap feature.
Senior Product Designer
Launched a 40-component design system and led a full website redesign in 3 months. Built a reusable advertising framework used across 80+ campaigns.
UX Designer
Led website redesign at $5B valuation / Series D milestone. Built a design system integrating acquired brand assets in under two weeks during M&A integration.
Product Designer
Improved product filtering and navigation, boosting product views by 18%. Redesigned mobile checkout, reducing cart abandonment by 25%.
Product Designer / Design Lead
Worked across fintech, edtech, enterprise SaaS. Led a remote team of 4, mentored junior designers and developers, and built reusable design systems adopted across 10+ product teams in 15+ countries. Achieved 30%+ repeat client rate across 58 clients.
Education
M.S. & B.S., Avionic Systems Interface Design
The degree is unusual for a designer. Aviation interface design is a discipline built on safety-critical systems where ambiguity costs lives. Edge cases are not edge cases, they are the design. That framing has followed me into every product I've worked on since.
Beyond work
Working toward a private pilot's license. Drawn to the complexity of flight systems: navigation, weather, aerodynamics, and what they demand from interface design. Long-term goal: cross the Atlantic in a small plane.