What I do
I start by listening: interviews first, then story maps, then software.
Design systems
Scaled systems at Disney, with tokens, components, and accessibility as the bar.
Design tokens
Component libraries
Accessibility
Platform guidelines
Design to code
Prototypes, data models, and shipped apps, not just handoffs.
Rapid prototyping
Data modeling
API design
Leadership
Led teams of 12+ at EY and moved 1,500 designers to a new toolchain.
Team leadership
Workshop facilitation
Stakeholder alignment
Designing for AI
Three open-source tools that make AI agents more reliable.
Agent workflows
Verification
Agent-facing documentation
Research
Ethnographic interviews that shape what gets built.
Ethnography
User story mapping
Usability testing
Ways of working
Certified Scrum Master, with Lean UX in practice.
Lean UX
Scrum
Information architecture
UX writing
Interaction design
Experience
Where I’ve led design, and what I built there.
2025 to now
Chief Design Officer & Co-Founder
Led design and build of a native iOS app in SwiftUI, now in TestFlight beta, with a Supabase backend, safety screening, and a semantic token system.
2024 to 2025
Product Designer, Design Systems (contract)
DisneyScaled design systems for Disney experiences across web, mobile, and emerging platforms, with accessibility and scalability as the bar.
2018 to 2023
Founder & Chief Design Officer
Launched SprintZero, a generative AI SaaS for agile product teams. Led a cross-functional team and worked with React and Google Cloud engineers around the world.
2022 to 2023
Senior Product Designer (freelance)
Redesigned the eNCPT platform for registered dietitians: practitioner interviews, an information architecture built around the four Nutrition Care Process steps, and step-aware search.
2018 to 2021
Product Design Lead
Ernst & YoungLed 12+ designers, researchers, developers, and content strategists for financial services clients, and led the migration of 1,500 designers from Sketch to Figma.
2016 to 2017
Lead UX Designer
DetecticaLed design of a machine learning compliance platform for forex trader monitoring at a major financial institution.
Before design
Network security
CACI
Booz Allen HamiltonOperations and maintenance for a federal cybersecurity center of excellence at CACI, and security work at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Education and certifications
Degree
2012
B.S. Information Technology
George Mason UniversityFairfax, Virginia
Certificate
2015
UX Design certificate
University of California, San DiegoSan Diego, California
Certification
2019
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum AllianceOnline
Hover photos: GMU Fairfax Campus by Lucien Dalarun (CC BY-SA 3.0) and Geisel Library at Night (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Beyond the work
Photography, a podcast, and music I make in my free time.
Behind the lens
I discovered creativity through a Nikon D600 with a 35mm f/1.4 lens.
Discovering Design
Conversations with designers about the careers they left and how they found their way into design.
Music
Demos I post in my free time.
Based in
Seattle, WA
Open to relocate.
Local time
Weather
Mount Rainier
Common questions
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