Resume

Experience

  • July 2025 - April 2026

    • Led design for pricing, trial, onboarding, and renewal experiences for a professional tax platform, shaping critical revenue-driving flows ahead of 2026 tax season

    • Reframed a fragmented checkout architecture into a guided, step-by-step experience, aligning stakeholders across product and engineering and improving decision clarity in a complex purchase flow

    • Influenced product direction through concept testing that challenged initial assumptions, shifting strategy from an integrated trial model to a progressive onboarding approach that reduced user overwhelm

    • Partnered across product, engineering, marketing, and sales to align user experience with business goals in a highly regulated domain

    • Developed ecosystem-level vision for Drakeโ€™s web properties, clarifying roles across marketing, support, and product surfaces to reduce navigation friction and improve lifecycle coherence

  • May - July 2025

    • Conducted accessibility and semantic audits to improve WCAG compliance and screen reader usability

    • Identified friction points using behavioral analytics and user feedback, informing content and UX improvements

    • Designed and tested modular page components to improve engagement and first-session completion rates

    • Designed and tested the addition of coach bios to the session confirmation experience, increasing new user conversion by 9% by strengthening trust and reducing post-signup drop-off

  • April 2022 - May 2025

    • Led the evolution of the uhc.com design pattern library, supporting 5+ products and 9+ designers across a large-scale healthcare ecosystem

    • Designed and scaled a component system with 1,400+ components, including 15 new components and 17 major enhancements, improving consistency and development efficiency

    • Rebuilt the system foundation in Figma using atomic design principles, enabling scalable adoption across distributed teams

    • Defined enterprise alignment strategy between internal systems and the Abyss design system, balancing platform constraints with long-term standardization

    • Partnered with engineering and accessibility teams to ensure WCAG-compliant components and high-fidelity implementation

    • Redesigned homepage and plan selection experiences to better support diverse user needs and improve conversion pathways

    • Mentored designers transitioning into UX roles, providing frameworks, templates, and guidance on component-based design, enabling them to independently extend the system while maintaining consistency

Additional Experience

Principal UX Designer, Naviguard
September 2021 - April 2022

Product Designer, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
March - September 2021

Lead UX Designer, Reuters
September 2020 - March 2021

Senior UX Designer, Thomson Reuters
September 2017 - September 2020

UI Designer, HealthPartners
August 2016 - September 2017

Interactive Designer, 3M
January 2014 - August 2016

Web Designer, Sigma Beauty
January 2013 - January 2014

Web Designer, Trebuchet Communications
June - November 2012

Freelance Design Intern, Dโ€™amico & Sons
June - September 2011

Education

M.A., Graphic & Web Design
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, 2021

B.A., Individual Studies in Graphic Design
Metropolitan State University, 2012

A.A.S., Graphic & Web Design
Minneapolis Community and Technical College, 2012


Core expertise

  • Design systems & accessibility

  • Complex, regulated environments

  • Systems & service thinking

  • Teaching & mentorship

Community roles

Election Judge & Poll Book Specialist
July 2020 - Present

Volunteer
Unidos Climate & Equity
Friends of the BWCA
Friends of the Mississippi River

MCAD Continuing Education Instructor
July 2023 - April 2025

Honors & awards

Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Award
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, 2022
This award is to be given to a student who completed his or her formal training and displayed "high personal character, diligence and application in work, and artistic ability of exceptional promise.โ€