About me
I’m a Sr Director of Product Design for an industry-leading cybersecurity company, and I have a decade of management experience in leading and growing design teams.
Currently, I lead a product design organization of approximately 85 people, including individual contributors, managers, teams of teams, and managers of managers. My organization covers the entirety of the product organization including all product verticals, platform, design systems, and related internal tooling.
What I do
Product design strategy and leadership
Driving UX and product design strategy in product orgs, growing and scaling UX teams, building out practices and processes, and training the next generation of designers
Design vision and strategy
Roadmapping and prioritization
Setting overall design quality bar
Scaling teams and organizations
Establishing and improving design processes
Coaching and career growth plans
Mentoring
Leadership
Visual communication + storytelling
Data visualization
Creative direction + graphic design
Design craft and execution
Concepting and designing industry-leading products and software, building and maintaining design systems, and driving generative research and product insights
Market and design research, analytics, and metrics
End-to-end UX design + design architecture
User interface design + illustration
Additional interests and pursuits
AI / ML / data science
Data visualization, infographics, and visual storytelling
Marine sciences, geospatial science, and GIS
Natural science illustration
When I’m not working or taking courses on all the things, you may find me experimenting with various art mediums, designing and making jewelry, covered in a mess of craft supplies, reading, running, walking, hiking, paddle boarding, or spending time at the beach.