Nice to meet you!

I'm a product designer and front-of-the-frontend developer based in Pittsburgh. I’ve spent more than a decade on complex digital products, especially B2B platforms where clarity and consistency matter at scale.

What I Love

• Designing web apps: I thrive on solving complex UX challenges and building interfaces that feel intuitive and human.
• Building design systems: Creating systems that bring consistency, scalability, and accessibility to teams and products is deeply satisfying work.
• Developing brands: Few things compare to a well-executed logo redesign and a cohesive brand identity that just clicks.
• Directing AI-assisted development: I prototype in production code and build Claude Skills so the practice can run beyond one person’s workflow. At GivingData, that work started as a measured pilot and is now part of how we ship design-heavy features. Read more in Prototyping in Production.
• Collaborating across teams: Some of my best work has come from close partnership with designers, developers, product managers, and clients who all care about getting it right.

What I Do

I'm currently the design lead at GivingData, a platform that serves over 99,000 users and 200+ foundations, facilitating more than 29,000 grant payments worth $4.9 billion in 2024 alone. At that scale, the stakes for getting the experience right are real.

My work spans product design, design system development, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver a seamless experience across the platform. Designing at this scale has reinforced something I believe deeply: the experience has to stay flexible as the product and the people using it grow.

Outside of Work

When I'm not designing, you can usually find me hiking a new trail, cooking (I'm on a perpetual quest to perfect my dumpling pleating technique), practicing Spanish, diving deeper into Mandarin, or being supervised by a small and very opinionated collection of cats.

Let's connect! I'd love to talk about your next project or just geek out about design.