Resume

Senior product designer with 12+ years leading 0→1 products, design systems, and AI-powered experiences across fintech, healthcare, travel, e-commerce, and SaaS. I turn complex, data-heavy workflows into scalable web and native mobile products.

Focus
0→1 · Complex products · Design systems
Experience
12+ years
Work authorization
US & EU

Experience

Digitas North America

Lead Product DesignerContract · RemoteSep 2025 – Present

  • Design digital experiences for McDonald’s, owning the work from requirements and exploration through high-fidelity design and prototyping
  • Integrate AI into the design workflow with Figma Make and Claude to explore concepts, prototype, validate, and iterate quickly
  • Collaborate with cross-functional agency teams and client stakeholders

Self-employed

Lead Product DesignerRemoteMar 2023 – Present

  • Partner with startups and scale-ups on design and strategy for new products and UX features
  • Lead product strategy, UX/UI design, prototyping, and design system initiatives from discovery through delivery

Lettuce Financial

Senior Product DesignerContract via A.Team · RemoteJul 2025 – Dec 2025

  • Designed contextual AI experiences around Lettuce Head, defining proactive trigger logic and task-relevant data surfacing
  • Led end-to-end design of the Year-End Financial Review, a complex tax review feature, from kickoff to production in under a month
  • Shipped the Income & Expense Estimator and healthcare deduction flows, improving annual tax estimates for self-employed users
  • Partnered with PM, engineering, and stakeholders to align on scope, edge cases, and delivery under tight timelines

Cloudticity

Lead Product DesignerContract · RemoteSep 2023 – Apr 2025

  • Sole designer on a cloud-based healthcare IT platform, end to end from concept through launch
  • Built a tokenized design system from scratch for consistent, scalable implementation across product verticals
  • Designed complex compliance, governance, and monitoring workflows, simplifying technical infrastructure for enterprise users
  • Partnered with product and engineering to define requirements, align strategy, and deliver production-ready work

Capital One

Senior Product Designer / Design ManagerRemoteOct 2021 – Mar 2023

  • Led 0→1 design of Smart Pay, a B2B payments product simplifying complex financial workflows for mid-sized businesses
  • Led the org-wide OMNI design system consolidation, eliminating duplicate components and standardizing UX patterns across silos
  • Drove a global UI refresh, aligning visual patterns and interaction standards across Capital One’s product suite
  • Mentored junior designers, improving team capability and design execution

Lola Travel & Expenses

Product DesignerRemoteMar 2020 – Oct 2021

  • Owned the travel and user management silo across iOS, Android, and web, from discovery through delivery
  • Redesigned the flight checkout to integrate spend management, virtual cards, and policy enforcement, a pattern adopted for hotel and car rental bookings
  • Shipped core features including QuickBooks integration, MFA, and self-service flight editing
  • Maintained and evolved the design system to support product growth

Lola was acquired by Capital One in 2021

Pega Systems

User Experience DesignerCambridge, MANov 2018 – Mar 2020

  • Designed reusable components for Bolt, Pega’s open-source enterprise design system
  • Built internal platforms including Collaboration Center and Employee Portal
  • Partnered with engineering to keep design and code in parity

TripAdvisor

User Experience DesignerNeedham, MASep 2015 – Nov 2018

  • Redesigned native mobile and web experiences for Attractions and Restaurants
  • Built the Attractions cart to improve checkout usability and conversion
  • Created a B2B activity feed for restaurant owners, increasing engagement

PUMA, Sperry Top-Sider, and others

UX/UI DesignerBoston area2009 – 2015

  • Contributed to large-scale e-commerce experiences focused on product discovery, checkout, and conversion
  • Collaborated cross-functionally in high-traffic, consumer-focused retail environments

Education

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

BFA in Graphic DesignBoston, MA2009

General Assembly

User Experience Design CertificateBoston, MA2015

Skills

Product & UX design

  • End-to-end product design, discovery to delivery
  • UX/UI, interaction design, and product strategy
  • Enterprise and B2B SaaS UX
  • Design systems and accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
  • UX writing and content design

AI & data-informed design

  • AI-assisted design workflows and prompt engineering
  • Designing for LLM-driven products, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation
  • Conversational UI and human-AI collaboration

Research & optimization

  • User research, usability testing, and A/B testing
  • Behavioral analytics and data-informed design

Collaboration & leadership

  • Cross-functional work with product, engineering, and stakeholders
  • Mentorship and design quality leadership
  • Agile and Lean UX

Tools & platforms

Design & prototyping

Figma (advanced prototyping, component libraries, variables, AI plugins), Adobe Creative Cloud

AI-assisted workflows

Claude for ideation, UX copy, flow validation, and edge-case analysis. Figma Make, Claude Design, and Cursor for rapid prototyping and implementation-aware work. Galileo AI and Uizard for early UI exploration

Design systems

Figma Dev Mode, Tokens Studio, scalable component libraries, design-to-development documentation

Research & analytics

Maze, Hotjar, Optimal Workshop, UserTesting

Frontend

React fundamentals, Tailwind CSS, Storybook, HTML/CSS, design-to-code workflows

Collaboration

Jira, Confluence, Miro, Notion, Slack