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This page offers a snapshot of my experience, how I work, and the perspectives I bring to projects of different shapes and sizes.
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SKILLS & EXPERIENCEWhat I’ve built, led, and learned over time
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MY VALUES
- Be fun to work with and have fun doing what I love
- Solve people's problems, lift them up
- Empathize with colleagues and customers
- Make and meet commitments
- Exceed expectations, create new pathways
clients/employers
SMALL BUSINESSES
I have helped a slew of small businesses create and maintain effective brand identities as well as SEO-friendly lead-generating and e-commerce web presences. I have also supported them with content-writing and production of sales collateral, blogs, trade events, and social media outreach.
STARTUPS
My multi-disciplinary skills and bias toward action and iteration has made me a good match for startups that need to turn on a dime and make the most of the resources they have. I have worked with CEOs on brand, web, product, social-media, and investor communication engagements.
ENTERPRISE COMPANIES
I have deep experience working with enterprise line-of-business applications in an agency/ISV environment as well as, yes, in the heart of one of the world's biggest and most successful technology companies at a time when it needed to reinvent its design language and serve consumer-grade experiences to businesses.
experience
ux/ui design
My user experience work has been an amazing journey into humility, teaching me how much I can never be sure of and how to keep investigating with others so we can find design solutions that will always be a very strong hypothesis that can be tested and refined for ever-greater optimization.
VISUAL DESIGN & brand identity
Every brand has a mission, story, and promise—I work hard to reflect these things in all the work I do. A brand system that inspires and supports trust and loyalty should be flexible, scalable, and memorable. It should be friction-free and available to incorporate into any and all corporate properties.
customer experience
I began my career as something of a generalist, and I continue to wear that hat passionately when I can, wooing siloed teams to collaborate, making sharing between them easier, more fun, more strategic, and more effective in the effort to roll out coherent experiences that support the full spectrum of customer needs.
SHARING EDUCATION
- Led a team training to transition to an InDesign-based production workflow
- Became a valued and trusted mentor to junior designers
- Taught UX Level 1 at School of Visual Concepts, later mentoring a student in the program.
- Help with portfolio reviews and mock interviews at General Assembly
about me
I’m a studio art graduate who moved into design and have worked across disciplines as technology has evolved, from graphic and identity design to web, UI, UX, and CX — always grounded in a belief in service design. For five years, I also ran my own small tabletop design business.
I’ve been honored to teach UX at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts and to mentor students there. People sometimes describe careers like mine as “up through the trenches,” a phrase I like because each discipline brings its own challenges — and its own ways of seeing.
In recent years, those discipline‑specific trenches have increasingly opened into one another, forming a more holistic landscape. That perspective helps me move fluidly across problem spaces and deliver practical, meaningful value for clients.
I live on Bainbridge Island near Seattle. Outside of work, I enjoy reading, walking, and finding good places to share a drink and a snack with friends. I’ve also lived in Vermont, San Francisco, and Paris.
I’ve been honored to teach UX at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts and to mentor students there. People sometimes describe careers like mine as “up through the trenches,” a phrase I like because each discipline brings its own challenges — and its own ways of seeing.
In recent years, those discipline‑specific trenches have increasingly opened into one another, forming a more holistic landscape. That perspective helps me move fluidly across problem spaces and deliver practical, meaningful value for clients.
I live on Bainbridge Island near Seattle. Outside of work, I enjoy reading, walking, and finding good places to share a drink and a snack with friends. I’ve also lived in Vermont, San Francisco, and Paris.
