Leadership Philosophy
Design leadership is about creating the conditions where great work can happen — building teams that are psychologically safe, strategically aligned, and obsessed with the humans they design for.
Read moreBuilding Teams,
Driving Outcomes,
Leading by Design
High-Level Case Studies
A curated look at the systems, products, and experiences shaped across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise — available on request due to the sensitive nature of the work.
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Expertise
CX Strategy
Channeling problems into impactful opportunities. Working to define how emerging technologies and new businesses will evolve the future customer experience. Directing product and delivery roadmaps.
UX Craft & Claude Code
Leveraging data and insights to design and code well crafted experiences via mobile, web, and chat experience. Crafting live experiments to test and iterate quickly. Leveraging and expanding design systems where needed. Creating strategic pattern definition and direction to scale solutions across conversational, web, and mobile experiences.
Product Strategy
Working to business cases, success metrics to align business and customer impact and align design work to OKRs. Partnering with stakeholders to evolve their organizational structure to operate new digital products, features, and/or services.
Service Design & Delivery
Choreographing how digital and non-digital channels come together into a single journey or experience. Designing across all touch-points or moments of the customer lifecycle. Live agent, AI chat, in-person, snail mail, push/SMS, telephonic ... I design and delivery service ecosystems.
Conversational Design & AI
Specializing in designing the human side of agentic AI — the conversation flows, decision points, and trust signals that let people hand off complex tasks to AI systems with confidence. Building the practices from scratch at Chase and Humana, before 'agentic' was the word everyone was using.
“exceptional design doesn't emerge from craft alone — it's cultivated through intentional team building, clear strategic vision, and an unwavering commitment to business outcomes.
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Values &
Leadership
Philosophy
17 years of experience, building happy and healthy design teams.
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Build the team first. Sustainable design output requires psychological safety, career growth, and clarity of purpose.
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Challenge the brief. The best solutions emerge when we question assumptions and redefine the problem space.
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Design for the human. Every decision traces back to the person on the other end of the experience.
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Drive business outcomes. Design earns its seat at the table by connecting craft to strategy and measurable results.
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Simplify ruthlessly. Complexity is easy. Clarity is the hard, valuable work.
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Lead with generosity. Sharing context, credit, and opportunity makes everyone and every product better.