A product designer,
working in systems.
I've been in product design since 2018, owning work from concept through launch on complex developer platforms. High information density, multiple user roles, products built to hold up after I've left the room. I ground decisions in research, analytics, and real customer stories, and use AI prototyping tools to get real interfaces in front of users fast.
Before product design: almost a decade in the Air Force as an intelligence analyst doing targeting and mission planning, and over a decade as a professional artist and photographer. Intelligence work teaches you to structure ambiguous information into decisions that hold under scrutiny. Art teaches you to see when something isn't working before you can say why. Both show up in the work.
Lead designer for the AI/ML division, owning end-to-end design for AI infrastructure products. Designed and launched a 0-to-1 Inference Router within 3 months of joining — featured in the Deploy conference keynote. Designed the Inference Hub landing page and icon set, establishing IA and navigation patterns for the AI/ML suite. Stepped in to rescue Knowledge Bases as a Service and Vector Databases when both were at risk of missing launch. When the team lost a front-end engineer mid-project, used Cursor to write and ship front-end code for my own designs.
Led UX strategy and product roadmap for a live operations and game data management tooling redesign across internal platforms used by game studios worldwide. Built the UX strategy from scratch using extensive discovery research. Built a design ops framework that cut project delivery time by 35%; design system reduced handoff time to engineering by 40%. Defined success metrics before launch and tracked post-launch performance using product analytics.
Led platform design strategy for Tanzu Hub Spaces — a Kubernetes deployment and management product spanning multi-cloud environments. Owned end-to-end design for a Kubernetes deployment and observability dashboard. Product hit 99% adoption and cut deployment time by 70%. Led an accessibility audit implementing WCAG guidelines across the platform. Work highlighted in VMware Explore Keynotes by CTO Kit Colbert and VP Purnima Padmanabhan. Received Elevate Our Best award.
Lead designer for Tanzu Service Mesh (TSM) and Secure App IX, enterprise Kubernetes service mesh management and API developer portal products. Pioneered cross-platform search and filter capabilities that reduced latency by 75% and user search time by 60%. Instrumental in securing multi-million-dollar contracts with Procter & Gamble and Humana. Led 'Illustrate Your Feedback,' the most popular user research activity at VMware Explore 2023.
Sole designer owning platform-wide UX and design systems for a product embedded across multiple partner platforms. Designed and implemented an embeddable UI framework with custom partner theming, reducing integration time from 3 months to 3 weeks across partners including Albertsons/Safeway, Burt's Bees, and Woodman's Markets.