Resume

Experience &
Education

10+ years designing and scaling complex digital platforms across fintech, eCommerce, media, healthcare, and travel — from zero-to-one startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

Experience

Where I've Worked

Lead UX Designer

2024 — Present

VML

  • Lead UX strategy across 2 Agile pods for enterprise-scale platform serving 10M+ monthly active users, driving a 22% improvement in core task-completion rates
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define roadmap priorities, translating business KPIs into measurable design outcomes
  • Mentor a team of 4 UX, UI, and research practitioners, establishing design critique cadence and career development frameworks
  • Shipped platform-wide navigation and IA redesign that reduced user drop-off by 18% across key conversion funnels

Founder & Product Design Lead

2024 — Present

NAAS, LLC

  • Founded design consultancy advising Series A–C startups and Fortune 500 enterprises on UX maturity, design systems architecture, and product strategy
  • Deliver end-to-end product design engagements from discovery research through production handoff, averaging 35% faster time-to-market for clients
  • Architect scalable Figma-to-code workflows that reduced design-to-engineering handoff friction by 40% across client organizations

Lead Product Designer

2024

DubClub · Series A Startup

  • Founding designer for 0-to-1 social audio platform that scaled to 2M+ users across iOS and Android within 18 months
  • Designed core engagement loop (discover → join → share → return) achieving 94% task-completion rate and 3.2x Day-30 retention vs. industry benchmarks
  • Built unified cross-platform design system (45+ components, 120+ tokens) that accelerated feature velocity by 60% and maintained visual consistency across 3 platforms
  • Led user research program — 30+ interviews, usability studies, and A/B testing — that directly shaped product-market fit strategy and drove a 4.7-star App Store rating

Lead Product Designer

2023 — 2024

Audible · Amazon

  • Redesigned the internal content metadata pipeline serving 500K+ audiobook titles across all global markets, reducing per-title processing time by 60% (12 min → under 5 min)
  • Consolidated 7 legacy operator tools into a unified title-management interface, eliminating context-switching overhead and driving internal NPS from 23 to 78
  • Designed real-time validation engine with market-aware rule sets that reduced customer-facing metadata errors by 40%
  • Led phased rollout strategy with parallel-run validation, bi-weekly operator feedback sessions, and instrumented workflow metrics to de-risk the transition

Senior Product Designer

2022 — 2023

Walgreens

  • Redesigned enterprise product card system across web, mobile web, and iOS serving 100M+ monthly pharmacy and retail customers
  • Developed cross-platform interaction patterns that unified the shopping experience and improved product card engagement by 28%
  • Advanced design system governance from ad-hoc to structured — established contribution guidelines, component audit cadence, and adoption tracking across 6 product teams

UX Designer II

2022 — 2023

Expedia Group

  • Optimized checkout flows across Expedia's $100B+ travel bookings platform, driving measurable improvements in conversion through iterative A/B testing
  • Redesigned payment selection and form input interactions, reducing checkout abandonment and improving data capture accuracy
  • Partnered with Product and Data teams to develop, validate, and ship incremental UX improvements using experiment-driven methodology

Earlier Experience

2016 — 2022

Navy Federal Credit Union · Fannie Mae · AARP · Accenture Federal Services · PenFed

  • Navy Federal Credit Union — Designed digital banking experiences for the world's largest credit union (13M+ members, $165B+ in assets)
  • Fannie Mae — Led service design and journey mapping for mortgage servicing platforms supporting a $4T portfolio
  • AARP — Conducted user research and designed digital engagement experiences for 38M+ members
  • Accenture Federal Services — Delivered UX strategy and design for federal government digital transformation initiatives
  • PenFed — Designed consumer-facing financial product interfaces for a top-5 U.S. credit union

Education

Background

BFA Industrial Design

Savannah College of Art and Design

Class of 2012

Front-End Web Development

General Assembly

2018 · HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Core Strengths

  • Platform & Ecosystem Design
  • Design Systems Architecture & Governance
  • Zero-to-One Product Development
  • Growth & Conversion Optimization
  • Content Discovery & Information Architecture
  • Checkout & Transactional Flows
  • Executive Stakeholder Alignment

Toolkit

Tools I Use

Design

Figma, FigJam, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin, Framer

Development

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Swift/SwiftUI, VS Code, Xcode, Git

Research & Data

Maze, UserTesting, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Mixpanel

Process

Jira, Confluence, Notion, Linear, Miro, Agile/Scrum, SAFe