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
EDUCATION
University of Michigan
Bachelor of Arts, Literature/Poetry (2009)
University of Michigan
Master of Science, Human-Computer Interaction (2012)