Design leader dedicated to creating lovable products & teams
Professional ROLES
Parachute Health (B2B2C), July 2019-Present, VP of Design (Founding Team)
frog, Feb 2018 - July 2019, Interaction Designer Team Lead
HS Design, May 2015 - Feb 2018, Senior Product Designer Michael Graves Design Group, 2014, Industrial Design
Freelance Designer, 2013-present
Education
B.S. Industrial Design (magna cum laude)
Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design
Design for Social Good
Traveled to India to test prototypes designed to protect street vendors
WORK SNAPSHOT
Parachute Health, e-prescribing multi-product platform
floridablue.com, design language system and customer experience vision
Cigna.com, logged-in experience
Project Management Institute, mobile app for next-gen project managers
Humana, Medicare education tool (microsite and text-bot experiences)
SentiAR, Microsoft Hololens Application for catheter mapping
Medtronic, Linear and Circular Stapler UX/UI and logic
Medtronic, Retained Surgical Item prevention device
Milestone Scientific, Product definition and design of fluid injector
Hologic, UX of Gen 2. specimen radiography system
Awards + Achievements
Listed as inventor on US Patent (Surgical Stapler), 2022
SentiAR was awarded a 2020 IDEA Silver in the Digital Interaction category, a 2021 Silver Edision award, and the 2021 Silver MDEA Award Cardiovascular Devices.
Hologic was awarded a 2021 Bronze MDEA AWARD Radiological, Imaging, and Electromechanical Devices Trident HD is the next generation of a user-friendly, specimen radiography system for breast-conserving surgeries and stereotactic breast biopsies.
Listed as inventor on USPTO Patent Systems P06439US0 (Fluid Injector), 2016
Design Ignites Change Award, 2014
Spark Awards Concept Finalist, 2014
Industrial Design Award for Studio Excellence (Virginia Tech), 2012
CORE VALUES
Respect & Kindness
Curiosity & Creative Problem-Solving
Collaboration & Inclusion
Space for play
Experimentation & Fast Feedback
SKILLSETS
outcome-driven design, people-centric design leadership, customer journey mapping, problem framing and storytelling, value prop definition, qualitative user research and insight translation, user testing and concept evaluation, concepting in varying fidelities (low-fi to hi-fi), visual design, craft in digital product design, cross-functional balanced teams, systems thinking