Executive Summary

Experienced Senior Product Designer with over 10 years of expertise in designing intuitive, data-driven user experiences across healthcare and enterprise software. Skilled in leading design teams, creating UX strategies, and delivering innovative solutions that simplify complex workflows to improve user outcomes.

Core Competencies

  • Product Design & Development
  • UX Strategy & Leadership
  • User-Centered Design & Interaction Design
  • Data Visualization & Analytics
  • Design Systems & Component Libraries

Professional Experience

Staff Product Designer
Komodo Health · 2021 – Present

  • Designed intuitive, data-driven healthcare analytics experiences.
  • Shaped UX strategy for MapLab, streamlining complex workflows.
  • Co-designed MapAI, a generative AI tool for cohort creation and analysis.
  • Built interactive "dataflows" with microinteractions to guide non-technical users.
  • Focused on usability, data visualization, and interaction design.

Design Lead & UX Designer
IBM · 2015 – 2021

  • Advanced from UX Designer to Design Lead, managing a cross-functional team of UX designers, visuals designers, and UX researchers.
  • Led design for z/OS systems tools, improving accuracy and speed.
  • Created wireframes, flows, prototypes; contributed to Carbon Design System.
  • Conducted evaluative research and facilitated Design Thinking workshops.

Associate Information Architect
Siegel+Gale · 2011 – 2012

  • Improved financial communications through audits and taxonomy design.
  • Simplified content using IA principles for better user clarity.

Assistant Editor
Abrams · 2007 – 2011

  • Managed illustrated book projects in pop culture and photography.
  • Edited copy, selected art, and led cross-team collaboration.
  • Presented creative vision to internal stakeholders.

Graduate School Experience

University of Michigan School of Information
Master’s in Information Science, HCI · 2013 – 2015

  • Researched student evaluation systems at UM Medical School.
  • Interned at Amazon: redesigned ebook gifting experience from user insights to final prototype.

Awards & Recognition

CHI Student Design Competition Finalist (2015)

  • Created Minowe, a language-learning app for Native American communities.
  • Presented at CHI Seoul 2015 and SXSW “Pitch Austin.”

IBM z/OS Management Service Catalog

  • UX Design Lead on project awarded:
    • iF Design Award
    • International Design Award (IDA)

Speaking

Guest Speaker – SVA Interaction Design Class of 2025
Spoke on design practice, research, and career development for MFA students.

Education

University of Michigan
Master of Science, Information Science
Specialization in Human-Computer Interaction
2013 – 2015 | Ann Arbor, MI

Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
2001 – 2005 | Pittsburgh, PA

Certifications

  • Feature Delivery Foundations for Admins – Split (Harness), Aug 2023
    Credential ID: WfdbrZqgqA
  • IBM Design Thinking Collaborator – IBM, May 2017
  • IBM Design Thinking Practitioner – IBM, May 2017