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, Frog Street's teacher-facing early-childhood platform: the product architecture, core flows, and a design system built from scratch, carried from wireframes through front-end and QA. View case study →
- Age of Learning Enterprise SaaS tools and the Sketch → Figma design-system migration. View case study →
- Moda Health Designing clarity into regulated healthcare eCommerce and the member experience. View case study →
- Independent & Agency Work Product consulting and agency partnerships, from SaaS prototyping to brand and print work. 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.
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 .