VISIONARY DESIGNER, PRODUCT LEADER, CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST

  • 12+ years of experience transforming complex systems into intuitive, accessible UX design

  • Passionate about tools and experiences that augment human creativity with AI

  • Patented innovator with proven success leading cross-functional teams and driving user-centered business growth

  • Uniquely positioned at the nexus of vision and technical execution, with specialized expertise in rapid prototyping, AI workflows, VR/AR/game development, and audio/video production

UX CONSULTANT

UX Design Lead (2024-2025)

  • Created story maps, user flows, and interaction/design system for complex polling platform

  • Built comprehensive mobile application designs from concept to high-fidelity prototype

  • Coordinated user testing sessions with industry experts to validate and refine design solutions

  • Developed prompt engineering and AI-integration strategy for poll questions and complementary images

WORKIVA | PRINCIPAL UX DESIGNER

Platform AI (2023-2024)

  • Drove cross-platform workshops for integrating generative AI tools into productivity suite

  • Prototyped in-app assistant and generative report documents/UI configurations

Growth Team (2021-2024)

  • UX lead for 3 exploratory product teams, each with research, design, and engineering pipelines

  • Delivered an integrated sustainability reporting platform that generated $20M+ in annual revenue in the first year

  • Discovered, designed, prototyped, and validated in parallel with aggressive development timelines 

  • Mentored cross-functional design team and established UX best practices for rapid, iterative execution

Workflow Automation (2019-2021)

  • UX lead for cross-platform automated productivity tools

  • Designed contextual task, process, and workflow tracking dashboards

  • Prototyped a scripted business process experience for holistic enterprise automation

  • Prototyped a workflow canvas app to validate a strategic acquisition 

Enterprise Reporting (2016-2019)

  • Led design team for a novel, platform-integrated graph database reporting application 

  • Established long-term business pillar that continues to generate significant revenue today

  • Secured 5 patents for complex systems design innovations in enterprise reporting

  • Pioneered design system development that unified product experiences across the platform

Platform Experiences (2012-2016)

  • UX/UI design for digital review and collaboration tools across interlinked doc/sheet/slide platform

  • Patented differential editing and proofreading of presentation slide versions

  • Conducted extensive qual/quant user research to validate design decisions and product strategy

  • Collaborated across disciplines to ship multiple major product releases

HOOKLOGIC

Product/UX Intern (2010-2012)

  • Product management and experience design for an e-commerce ad servicing platform

  • Designed novel bid-marketplace interface for enterprise campaigns, collaborated with dev team on implementation

  • Technical QA and algorithm testing

METHODS

Discovery: Contextual inquiry, interviews, competitive review, journey/story-mapping, surveys, whiteboarding

Design: Sketching, low/mid/high-fidelity mockups, clickable wireframes, component/style guides

Prototyping: High-fidelity interactive demos, animations/transitions, data integrations, scripted workflows

Validation: Concept testing, usability testing, scenario walkthroughs, sentiment surveys


TOOLS

Design: Adobe (Firefly, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, XD, Premiere Pro), Figma, Sketch, Axure

Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby/Rails, C# (Unity)

Gen AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, DALL-E, Pika, Leonardo, Replit

Audio: Ableton, FL Studio, Garage Band, Serato, Unison

PATENTS

US 9,075,780 B2: Comparing objects in document revisions and displaying comparison objects (2015)

US 9,563,616 B2: Generating and utilizing persistent electronic tick marks and use of electronic support binders (2017)

US 10,216,706 B1: Facilitating data sample testing (2019)

US 11,048,696 B2: Generating a search query for a graph database (2021)

US 11,586,617 B2: Generating a search query for a graph database (2023)

US 11,586,704 B2: Facilitating data sample testing (2023)

FEATURED PROJECTS

Workiva Sustainability Platform

VR Development | Game Development

Mobile Polling App


EDUCATION

University of Michigan
Bachelor of Arts, Literature/Poetry (2009)

University of Michigan
Master of Science, Human-Computer Interaction (2012)