Resume
Experience
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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 Drakeโs web properties, clarifying roles across marketing, support, and product surfaces to reduce navigation friction and improve lifecycle coherence
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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
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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, Dโamico & 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