Design leader building
for an AI world.
I lead design for complex, AI-driven products, and I build them in code. Ten years of high-stakes work behind it, from defense systems to bank data to medtech. Then I teach what I learn to the next generation of designers.
How I lead
Through Complex Systems
I've spent most of my career inside software where getting it wrong isn't a bad review, it's a decision nobody can defend. I work on platforms with different types of users, all looking for something different. The more complex the system, the plainer it has to be.
Through People and Clients
Design leadership is a trust problem before it's a craft problem. I've led product design teams across many different verticals. The throughline is earning the trust of people who aren't designers themselves but have real authority over whether a decision is defensible. I treat every relationship, inside the team and outside it, as something to be trusted with, not managed around.
Through Teaching
I came to design from journalism, where the job is making something complicated understandable to someone who wasn't there. From there, I gained transferable skills that I use to this day. I've taught in the classroom, online, and through years of writing, reaching and mentoring thousands of students along the way. What I try to model is translating clearly enough that people trust what you've given them.
Featured work
A few of the problems I've untangled, and the systems that came out the other side.
01The trust layer for an agentic sales system
Designed the interfaces that let sellers see what an AI sales agent was doing, know which signals to trust, step in where it mattered, and shape the agent over time. For a large financial services company.
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02ISI Defense: Leading v5.0 through complex permissioning
Sole designer on v5.0 of a security platform for defense contractors. Owned the design system and the clearance-based permissioning logic under it, working directly with the engineering team.
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03Tailorbird: Unifying a fragmented SaaS platform
Designed a product dashboard that unified fragmented features for a B2B multifamily real-estate platform serving 26 of the top 50 real estate owners in the country.
View case study on Behance→Beyond the screen, I talk shop: on podcasts, at conferences, and in the classroom.
Have a design problem? Let's talk.
Whether you need a design leader for your team or a strategist for your next high-stakes launch, I'd like to hear about it.