My Resume

A design leader with 10+ years of proven success driving large-scale design transformation across B2C, startups, and complex enterprise SaaS environments. Expert at navigating ambiguity and fostering a unified design vision across globally distributed teams, executive leadership and stakeholder to deliver highly scalable, user-centric experiences.

Work Experience

Principal Product Designer

Okta

Leading the foundational user experience for a high-growth enterprise SaaS identity security platform, serving a user base of security administrators, developers, and global enterprise clients. Drives complex, cross-functional initiatives to unify the product ecosystem, accelerating feature delivery and ensuring world-class security standards are translated into intuitive, scalable design patterns.

Strategic E2E User Experience: Defines the vision and oversees the strategic design of complex workflows by synthesizing research, facilitating workshops, creating wireframes and designing prototypes.

Platform Vision & Security Integrity: Defines and executes the platform UX roadmap using a rigorous user-centered design approach to govern platform services. Ensures highly scalable interaction patterns, design consistency, and robust security integrity across the entire enterprise ecosystem.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration: Serves as a primary design advocate and effective liaison across product, engineering, and executive stakeholders, fostering a culture of collaborative systems thinking. Provides mentorship and strategic guidance to mid-level and senior designers on complex enterprise usability challenges.

Product Design Manager

Upwork

Dual-role design leader and principal contributor specializing in high-impact monetization and platform growth within a dynamic B2C marketplace. Successfully managed and mentored a team of designers while simultaneously driving complex, data-informed UX strategy for core revenue drivers, including proprietary search algorithms, native advertising placements, and conversion-focused checkout flows. Consistently balanced user needs with critical business objectives to deliver significant ROI.

Growth & Monetization Strategy: Engineered the design strategy for core revenue drivers optimizing user experience to increase click-through rates by 18% and driving overall ad revenue while reducing search abandonment by 12% within a 12-month period.

Team Leadership & IC Execution: Directed and mentored a design pod of 3-5 designers, driving high-quality strategic alignment; simultaneously executed a heavy IC load, personally designing and shipping two major annual revenue-generating features.

Cross-Functional Insight Generation: Collaboratively led qualitative user research across buyer and seller audiences, aligning cross-functional partners (Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Engineering Directors) to translate insights into validated design hypotheses for scalable search and monetization features.

Lead Product Designer

RecoveryOne

Results-oriented Lead Product Designer responsible for setting the user experience vision and executing design strategy for a high-growth digital health platform focused on virtual physical therapy. Drove the end-to-end design lifecycle from discovery through launch, ensuring HIPAA compliance, clinical efficacy, and exceptional usability for both patient and clinician user groups.

Strategic Design Leadership: Defined and led the long-term UX roadmap and information architecture for the core product experience, acting as the sole or primary design leader responsible for mentoring junior talent and establishing scalable design processes.

Rapid, Compliant Execution: Drove the design and successful launch of the company’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) within 9 months, rigorously ensuring all workflows adhered to HIPAA and clinical safety standards throughout the rapid iteration process.

Cross-Functional Validation: Served as the design nexus, conducting in-depth user research with patients and providers, and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Content, and Clinical teams to validate and align complex communication and workflow design.

Education

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Savannah College of Art & Design

Visual Design & User Experience

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

George Mason University

Multimedia Design

Tools & Software

Figma / Figjam
Sketch
Adobe Creative Suite
Claude Code
VS Studio w/Co-Pilot
Terminal

Miro

Confluence
Jira
Asana
Google Workspace
Microsoft Office
Airtable
Dovetail

Zeplin
GitHub
HTML5
CSS3
Storybook
Supernova

Awards

Adobe Design Achievement Award

Adobe Design Achievement Award

Letter of Commendation

Letter of Commendation