Experience
- Led adoption of AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, Copilot) across the design team; facilitated weekly learning sessions and guided designers in integrating AI into design, research, planning, and testing workflows.
- Drove design across enterprise applications spanning finance tools, video metadata tagging, title planning platforms, and products supporting content distribution, media engineering, and business insights.
- Managed and evolved the Enterprise Design Language (EDL) — maintaining the Figma component library, implementing system updates, and ensuring consistency across a complex ecosystem of internal products.
- Core contributor to the next-gen EDL, focusing on AI integration through MCP development, LLM-powered documentation, and workflows that enhance designer–developer collaboration.
- Spearheaded UX and creative strategy for enterprise systems supporting cloud infrastructure, application lifecycle management, and developer experience.
- Designed and iterated on complex, data-intensive products through high-fidelity prototyping, translating ambiguous requirements into clear, usable experiences while extending design systems.
- Partnered cross-functionally with stakeholders, product owners, and engineering to embed UX into Agile workflows; contributed to PI planning and sprint execution while guiding junior designers via Jira.
- Led end-to-end usability research to inform design strategy and improve KPIs, advocating for high-quality UX by communicating its impact on enterprise platform performance.
- Built high-fidelity prototypes in Axure for hand-off and user testing.
- Conducted product research to support design decisions and UI/UX standards.
- Analyzed usability study outcomes and defined potential solutions; audited current designs toward an updated design system.
- Created dynamic Google, Facebook, and YouTube ads; generated event-based graphics for web, social, and HTML email campaigns.
- Conducted user research via UserTesting to determine most successful designs for advertisement and email.
- Created designs, wireframes, and prototypes for websites, apps, and interactive projects for university internal clients and partners.
- Collaborated with clients, stakeholders, developers, and designers; understood client needs through product research and user-generated feedback.
Education
Masters in Human Computer Interaction
Iowa State University
Google Foundation of UX Design
Coursera
BFA in Graphic Design
University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute
Notable Achievements
PTX Award · The Walt Disney Company (2026)
Recognized for leading AI adoption across Enterprise Design and cross-functional teams.
UX Summit Speaker · Disney (2025)
Presented on how enterprise experiences drive business outcomes and power end-consumer products.
DEVCON Speaker · American Express (2023)
Delivered talk on leveraging user insights to create differentiated developer experiences.
DEVCON Speaker · American Express (2022)
Presented on cross-functional collaboration through shared language and systems thinking.
Skills
UX Design
Product Design
UX Strategy
UI Design
UX Research
Usability Testing
User Interviews
Workshop Facilitation
Wireframing
High-Fidelity Prototyping
AI Tools
Design Systems
Game Design
AR/VR Development
3D Design
2D Animation
Illustration
Software
Figma
FigJam
Rive
VS Code
Cursor
Claude Code
GitLab / GitHub
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
After Effects
Procreate
Unity / Godot
ChatGPT / Copilot / Claude