I’ve been a senior designer for 8 years, so I’m confident assessing the design needs of a project, making a plan and working with stakeholders to execute it. I create excellent deliverables, but I’m also a capable design strategist and product leader. Since 2017 I’ve worked at small NYC product product agencies run by process nerds like myself, and that’s given me a deep toolkit of research and design methods for every stage of the software development lifecycle.

My work has focused heavily on B2B SAAS, but I am especially proud of the work I’ve done with nonprofits, healthcare and scientific research organizations. Notably:

• In 2018 I worked with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals on Abilify MyCite, the first FDA approved app + pill + wearable combo for people living with Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder.
• In 2021 I worked with doctors at Columbia University Irving Medical Center on a clinical trial to investigate if an educational iPad app could increase condom use in sexually active teenage boys. I also co-authored a paper on the process of designing an app for the study.
• In 2021 and 2022 I worked with Argonne National Laboratory designing a Research Data Management Platform, as well as machine-learning powered materials science tools.

I have a background in web and graphic designer, as well as activism and progressive social change. In my spare time, I love to garden and hike in the Hudson Valley with my partner and our rescue dog. I also adore making pottery, collage and practicing figure drawing. I volunteer in my community, both as a designer and a set of hands, and am especially passionate about community gardens and food security. I also make the world’s best guacamole and the world’s worst puns ^{(citation needed)}.

I find tremendous design inspiration in the ways nature solves problems. Squids and Elephants are from completely separate branches of the animal kingdom yet have independently developed startlingly similar solutions to the same use cases, a phenomenon known as convergent evolution.

Trunks and tentacles both solve for flexibly and securely wrapping around food at a distance and moving it from the environment to the mouth. Tusks and beaks both aid in securing food and defending against predators. But I think the most profound example is the eye: cephalopods and land animals both independently evolved spherical eyes with focusing lenses to perceive the world around them.

Combining them felt like an appropriate mascot of sorts for the iterative design process – and a reminder that there are many different ways to get to get to a good design. It also makes a cute and memorable brand.