Here’s what I can bring to your team.

As a scientist and an experienced digital product designer, I combine technology with data to support human insight. I come to a project with a blank slate, and encourage users (and the team) to imagine how things could be, rather than focusing on how they are today. First we create space to dream the future, and then we get busy putting robust technical foundations under those dreams. I support your team through that whole process, from big ideas down to nitpicky details. 

The work

I work best in large, complicated projects with many moving parts, where there are significant technical and architectural challenges to work out. I speak data fluently; I can distill concentrated insights out of user interviews without losing the important details, and I’m technical enough to follow along at speed with most technical teams and subject matter experts. 

My collaborators

I work alongside product and organizational leadership to collect research insights and develop strategic direction, and I partner with product and technical teams to translate the big picture into concrete, feasible, and staged solutions. Together, we define user needs, frame the work, and structure roadmap-level design requests. Then, I work with product teams, architects, and designers to translate heavily technical requirements into digestible tasks for lead, principal, or senior-level designers working on the team.

Leadership

As a leader, I believe in creating supported, independent, and empowered teams that solve hard problems in creative ways. I leverage 15 years of college teaching and 8 years of people management experience to get the best from every person working on my teams. I push people to achieve at the limits of what they can do, and ensure that they have the support and the safety net to do it well. 

I take a high-touch, comprehensive approach to individual and team development. In addition to building core design and project management skills, we focus in on the interests and talents of each designer to ensure that we are leveraging their uniqueness and providing opportunities for them to grow and to do their best work.

Team operations

I fully believe in tracking design work, and measuring our outputs and impacts. What you measure matters, and it ultimately becomes the foundation for conversations about operational efficiency, prioritization and strategic alignment across the org. If you’re not measuring, you’re flying blind.

 

Interested to know more? Let’s talk, or feel free to browse my portfolio. 

 

Highlighted projects 

Here are some of the industry projects that I have worked on:

• Detailed requirements and chart selection logic for data visualization platform (2017-2019)
• Application using AI forecasting to inform operational planning in clinical trials. The product grew from a fledgling product to $25M/y revenue in the time that I worked on the project. (2019-2024)
• Integrating an external BI tool into platform architecture for analytics-informed user workflow support (2024-2025) – Portfolio collateral under development and coming soon!
• I served as Director of Education for the Data Visualization Society from 2021-2023. My projects there included creating an extensive career pathways report, in addition to developing educational strategy and learning pathways for the org. 

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Additional background

Speaking and presentations

I worked as a research scientist and chemistry professor for many years before transitioning to design in 2015.

Interests:

I am especially interested in projects related to scientific discovery, clinical trials, sustainability, network complexity, renewable energy, and other topics that create a more sustainable world and a better future. I have many years of experience designing for AI-informed decision-making and am excited to experiment with new technologies, but the real insight is human.