About me
I'm good at bringing structure to messy problems and asking the uncomfortable questions early.
I've designed federal compliance systems at CMS, defined what “good” looks like for whole design teams, and taught UX to career changers — half of one cohort landed product design roles within a year. These days I lead product design at Savvy Wealth. Outside work I ferment things and design clothing, and most mornings I'm on a run somewhere in Brooklyn.
What I believe
- Most of what looks like design debt is problem-selection debt: we built the wrong thing well. The leaps come when you drop the ego and face what you're actually solving for.
- You can't solve a problem you're not in service of: the end user, the frontline team, the designer across from you. Strategy grounded in assumption instead of lived experience is a guess with a deck.
- Serious problems need people who feel safe enough to explore. Protect curiosity and humanity in the room, or you'll ship work that's safe and forgettable.
- The craft only moves forward when we teach each other in the open. Hoarding what you know behind a paywall is how a field that changes weekly leaves you behind.
What I don't do
- I don’t lead from the pixel. I trust the designers around me to own execution, and I spend my energy unlocking their potential and raising the bar for what good looks like.
- I don’t get pulled into reactive work that lacks purpose. I protect space for deep thinking, cross-functional alignment, and the long-term health of the system.
Work history
I'm leading the product design team at Savvy Wealth to build the future of intelligent wealth management.
I partner with mission-driven orgs and startups to shape strategy, define vision, and bring digital products to life — whether starting from napkin sketch or scaling MVPs.
I led product design on Drata's enterprise GRC platform — shaping tools that help the world's fastest-growing companies scale securely and stay audit-ready.
I designed federal digital tools with clarity, accessibility, and equity in mind — from healthcare compliance at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid to wellness tracking for the Department of Defense.
I taught UX and product design to emerging talent and helped evolve GA's curriculum to reflect the real-world challenges designers face in modern product teams.
I worked shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers to design usable, ethical, and scalable systems — embedding design deeply into agile, high-stakes environments.
Clients included: Etsy, Aegon, Credit Suisse