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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UX & Design
Engineering Collaboration
AI
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