At a glance

A decade-plus of product design, with a design-engineering spine. Below: the eras that built the skills, the top skills today, and the certifications behind the work.

  1. 2022–today · AI-native platformsNow

    DoorDash · San Francisco

    Staff Product Designer, AI Enablement (Mar 2026–Present) · Senior Product Designer (Apr 2022–Mar 2026)

    • Led design for Astra, the unified support platform replacing legacy tooling across DoorDash and Wolt operations.
    • Built Pace Car, a two-lane design-engineering workflow that lets designers prototype in code while production stays protected. The prototype lane reached 1,023 commits and roughly 126 merges in four months.
    • Personally wrote and merged 85 engineering pull requests in H1 2026, with the large majority landing as substantial product or platform changes.
    • Built DashPilot, an AI copilot prototype using retrieval across workflow and knowledge-base material. It helped pull a new workstream forward on the roadmap.
    • Ran Studio AI Day, a workshop that taught 54 designers to use AI-assisted coding on live web products; 9 designers merged their first production code change.
  2. 2020–2022 · AI product design

    Acrisure · Austin, TX / Denver, CO

    Principal Product Designer, Manager (Oct 2020–Apr 2022) · Lead Product Designer (May 2020–Oct 2020)

    • Principal and lead designer at Acrisure, the 6th-largest insurance brokerage in the world, focused on human-centered AI and predictive analytics.
    • Led design initiatives and managed a small team of designers.
  3. 2018–2020 · Design + code

    Arrow Electronics · Denver, CO

    Design Engineer (Jun 2018–May 2020)

    • Designer, researcher, and Angular front-end developer on enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps for a Fortune 50 electronics distributor: freight, logistics, and reporting.
    • Introduced human-centered design and design thinking, shifting product development from requirement-driven to user-driven roadmaps.
  4. 2017–2018 · Enterprise systems

    Open Systems Technologies

    Senior Product Designer (Jul 2017–Jun 2018)

    • Designer on the enterprise architecture team, designing systems for Fortune 500 clients across system, business, and user needs.
  5. 2016–2017 · Mobile & consumer

    Whirlpool · Deloitte Digital

    UX Designer, Whirlpool (Mar 2016–Feb 2017) · Senior Product Designer, Deloitte Digital (Feb 2017–Jul 2017)

    • At Whirlpool: pioneered smart kitchen features across mobile apps for the Whirlpool family of appliance brands.
    • At Deloitte: built a statewide web application for the State of Michigan that made it easier for residents to apply for state-issued benefits.
  6. 2014–2016 · UX foundations

    BISSELL · MLive Media Group · Ebus Innovations

    Digital Specialist, BISSELL (Mar–Dec 2014) · UX Designer, MLive (Dec 2014–Aug 2015) · UX Designer, Ebus (Aug 2015–Mar 2016)

    • UX research, visual design, and digital craft across consumer, news media, and innovation contexts.
  7. Design + IT education

    DePauw University · Grand Rapids Community College

    Bachelor, Digital and Visual Communications (DePauw) · Information Technology (GRCC)

  • Machine Learning Foundations for Product Managers
  • Design Thinking for Product Innovation and Strategy
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Facebook Digital Promise Scholarship: 8-Week Front-End Web Development & React Bootcamp
  • 2021 CIO 100 “Innovation and Design” Award
  • What is grounded theory? Finding insights in qualitative research