About Me.

A Lead Product Designer with 12+ years of experience designing enterprise platforms, content operation tools, and AI-assisted workflows for technical and cross-functional teams.

Deep collaborative partner to product, engineering, and data science leaders. Known for bringing structure and shared understanding to ambiguous, fast-moving environments where multiple teams, workflows, and business verticals converge on a single platform surface.

How I Think About Design

Design as an Operating System I treat design as infrastructure for decision-making. When systems are unclear, teams slow down, over-coordinate, or rely on tribal knowledge. My focus is creating shared understanding that lets teams move independently without breaking each other.

Strategy Before Screens I prioritize system clarity and decision structure before interface execution. Screens are outputs; understanding is the product.

First Principles Over Familiarity By reasoning from constraints instead of precedent, ambiguity turns into structure and insight becomes systemic.

AI as an Amplifier of Judgment I use AI to remove friction so human judgment and creativity can operate at a higher level. Not to replace thinking — to support it.

Clarity is the Deliverable Clarity builds trust, accelerates decisions, and makes complexity feel inevitable, not overwhelming.

Leading Through Ambiguity I help teams move from uncertainty to structure through shared language, clear decision focus, and systems that make progress repeatable.

Experience

While I've held leadership titles, my impact has consistently been as a senior individual contributor. Owning system-level design decisions and execution while mentoring others.

Product Design Lead

Sparq

'22 - present

Led design for foundational enterprise platforms supporting workflow orchestration, content operations, and developer-facing tooling across multiple products and business verticals.

Product Design Lead

Sparq

'22 - present

Led design for foundational enterprise platforms supporting workflow orchestration, content operations, and developer-facing tooling across multiple products and business verticals.

Senior Design & Architect

Palantir

'19 - 2022

Led UX across complex engagements in healthcare, government, and academic domains—driving design from early strategy through implementation on data-heavy, system-driven products.

Senior Design & Architect

Palantir

'19 - 2022

Led UX across complex engagements in healthcare, government, and academic domains—driving design from early strategy through implementation on data-heavy, system-driven products.

Principal Product Designer

Genalpha

'18 - 2019

Led a systems-driven redesign of a core SaaS platform supporting complex configuration, content management, and reporting workflows for enterprise clients.

Principal Product Designer

Genalpha

'18 - 2019

Led a systems-driven redesign of a core SaaS platform supporting complex configuration, content management, and reporting workflows for enterprise clients.

Senior UX Engineer

Acculynx

'17 - 2018

Designed multi-step, data-heavy workflows across enterprise applications with strong platform constraints and diverse user expertise levels.

Senior UX Engineer

Acculynx

'17 - 2018

Designed multi-step, data-heavy workflows across enterprise applications with strong platform constraints and diverse user expertise levels.

Senior UX Engineer

Zywave

'14 - 2017

Designed enterprise platforms with complex data models, permissions, and reporting needs across multiple business verticals.

Senior UX Engineer

Zywave

'14 - 2017

Designed enterprise platforms with complex data models, permissions, and reporting needs across multiple business verticals.

12+ Years of experience

Staff / Principal / Lead

Remote (Chicagoland)

Platforms, Dev Tools, Data Focus