About

I work at the intersection of Product, UX, Design Systems, Engineering, and AI.

Senior UI Designer with 8+ years of experience helping teams turn complex operational problems into scalable product experiences, reusable systems, and production-ready solutions.

Over the past several years my role has naturally evolved beyond UI design into product discovery, design systems, and improving how Product, Engineering, and UX work together. I enjoy taking complex operational problems, understanding user needs, rapidly exploring solutions, and helping teams move efficiently from ideas to production.

My work is grounded in systems thinking: clarifying requirements, mapping workflows, identifying constraints, and translating ambiguity into reusable patterns, accessible experiences, and implementation guidance. I care about the space between design intent and production reality, where documentation, design tokens, component architecture, and engineering collaboration determine whether good ideas scale.

I also use AI-assisted workflows thoughtfully to improve speed and clarity across prototyping, documentation, context engineering, and DesignOps. The goal is not to replace design judgment, but to help cross-functional teams learn faster, communicate better, and reduce handoff friction.

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Skills

Product

Product Discovery
Requirements Gathering
UX Research
Workflow Analysis
Information Architecture

UX & Design

Interaction Design
Prototyping
Accessibility
Design Systems
Visual Design

Engineering Collaboration

Figma
KendoReact
ThemeBuilder
Design Tokens
Component Architecture
Documentation
GitHub
VS Code

AI

Claude
GitHub Copilot
Lovable
Figma MCP
Prompt Engineering
AI DesignOps

What I Care About

  • Building design cultures where critique is honest, standards are useful, and mentorship helps people grow without theater
  • Simplifying complex enterprise workflows so people can make confident decisions in high-volume, high-pressure contexts
  • Making design governance feel like stewardship rather than bureaucracy by pairing clear standards with practical contribution paths

Professional Experience

Senior UI Designer

Wheels, Inc. • Apr 2024 – Present

  • Set UX direction and design system governance across the merged Wheels, Donlen, and LeasePlan USA product ecosystem
  • Unified three companies under a single design language, delivering 60+ KendoReact components and a feature-rich data grid
  • Operated as a principled design authority across product, marketing, engineering, and external agency partners without direct reporting authority
  • Established parity between Figma, ThemeBuilder, and Storybook, reducing design-dev churn and improving consistency
  • Partnered with engineering to optimize workflows, cutting implementation time by 50%
  • Applied WCAG AA compliance across core components and mentored designers through Figma onboarding and system adoption

UI/UX Designer II

Wheels, Inc. • Aug 2020 – Apr 2024

  • Owned end-to-end product design for complex enterprise workflows across web and mobile surfaces
  • Led migration to Figma and trained cross-functional teams, accelerating design adoption and shared workflow maturity
  • Directed flagship platform redesign work that created a unified user experience across web and mobile
  • Embedded accessibility standards into product design workflows to improve delivery quality before development handoff

Design Consultant

Purdue University Northwest • Feb 2023 – Apr 2023

  • Led redesign of the NLN Center of Excellence application and secured stakeholder buy-in through high-fidelity prototypes

UX/UI Designer

Central Wire Industries • Apr 2019 – Mar 2020

  • Developed design governance documentation and partnered with developers to deliver scalable UI solutions

Education

MA Graphic & Web Design

Minneapolis College of Art & Design, 2023

BS Communications

Columbia International University, 2016