Lead Product Designer · Portland, OR
I like to design at the level of systems: ecosystems, taxonomies, and workflows.
Fifteen-plus years designing across education and healthcare, for the people actually using the product: teachers, caregivers, patients, the admins and providers behind them. Currently founding product designer on an early-childhood edtech platform, carrying work from taxonomy through code and live testing.
Selected Work
- Frog Street Lilypad, the platform Frog Street — a print-curriculum company since 1989 — bet its digital future on. I defined the product ecosystem (a teacher-facing app and a separate content-and-admin backend), built the design system from scratch, and carried core flows through front-end and QA. View case study →
- Age of Learning Bridging legacy Flash tools into modern SaaS; led the enterprise team through a Sketch-to-Figma migration that shifted the design-systems practice. View case study →
- Moda Health Rebuilt the insurer's member intake flow, identifying critical friction points and shipping an experience that remains in use five years later. View case study →
- Independent & Agency Work Work outside in-house roles — product architecture and prototyping for a startup, presentation systems for agencies, brand and identity work. The range across mediums and clients that still shapes how I approach a project. View work →
Earlier experience Shazam (UX lead, TV team: second-screen experiences for live broadcasts including the Super Bowl, SNL, and CBS) · Healthnotes / Aisle7 (retail health kiosks & API integrations)
About
I'm a systems thinker who would rather find the rule than fix the screen. The work that excites me lives beneath the interface: information architecture, taxonomy, design systems, and the connective tissue that makes products easier to build, evolve, and understand. I like carrying that thinking through implementation and live testing, where the quality of the system is ultimately proven.
That same instinct shapes how I work with people. I'm even-keeled, calmer as deadlines get closer, quick to hand credit away, and careful to distinguish what I did from what others made possible. I'd rather teach someone the underlying principle than be the only person who knows the answer, so my favorite moments are onboarding a designer, helping an engineer understand the "why," or leaving a team more capable than I found it.
AI is part of my everyday workflow now — for synthesis, wireframing, prototyping, and exploration — but I think tools matter less than judgment. The value isn't generating more work; it's recognizing the pattern, building the right system, and helping other people use it with confidence.
The work I want more of is what this whole site is about: early, structural problems — defining the taxonomy, the architecture, the workflow — and carrying that thinking through implementation until it's real and tested. Education and healthcare feel like home, but the fit is any domain where getting the structure right actually matters.
I'm based in Portland and open to remote roles. If you'd like to talk, the fastest way to reach me is a text — my number's in my résumé — or find me on LinkedIn .