About Me
I am a UX Design Leader who has learned to lead by example and that clear communication is critical. My background in the highly complex FinTech and defense industries has shaped me into an empathic leader, culture enthusiast, and research advocate.
Plus, I’m a mama to 2 girls and a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback and married to the love of my life. I love getting out on the water, yoga, and adventures with my family!
Skills
🎨 Design
Accessibility
Agile Methods
AI Prototyping
Data-Driven Research
Design Ops
Design Workshop Facilitation (Sprint style)
Persona Creation
User Research (Interviews - Card Sorts - Usability Testing)
Wireframing
✨ Leadership
Team Management
Build Cross-Departmental Relationships for Collaboration and Execution
Interviewing, Hiring, and Onboarding
Mentorship
Design Operations
Storytelling
Public Speaking
Problem-Solving
Experience
Fullbay - Director, Product Design
2025 - Present
Built and scaled a new AI-native product experience from concept to launch, integrating generative AI into core workflows to drive measurable user productivity gains
Hired, led, and grew a multidisciplinary design team, establishing design strategy, systems, and processes to support rapid iteration and scalable product innovation
Partnered cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing teams to define the AI product vision, translating complex technology into intuitive, human-centered experiences
Summit Digital - UX Consultant (Self-employed)
2022 - 2025
I worked on UX research and design contracts for clients around the U.S.
Delivered data-driven, strategic solutions that empower product teams (PMs, designers, engineers) to thrive.
Current & past clients include: Oklahoma City Public Schools, Heritage Hall School, and the Bank of Oklahoma
Parry Labs - Director, UX & Product Line
2022 - 2023
Manage 4 product managers and mentor designers and front-end developers
Evangelize UX and build up resources to scale within the product line
Scope, streamline, and execute on the Internal Research & Development (IRAD) format through design thinking workshops, resulting in the creation of two 1, 3, and 5 year roadmaps for 2 different products
Drive product design as a consultant with a third party UX Firm to validate their findings and UI design process for battlespace drone products
Heartland Payments Systems - Lead, UX Designer
2020 - 2022
Scaled the team through design ops practices, including interviewing + hiring 5 new designers
Managed a data-driven user research strategy for a future, enterprise-level, payroll web and mobile application
Clevyr - Sr. UX Designer
2018 - 2020
Strategized and articulate designs from concept to execution with data-driven validation from both qualitative + quantitative user research
Perceptronics Solutions - UX Designer
2016 - 2018
Lead UX/UI scope + scale for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project
Strategized roadmap features and designed an AI powered mobile/ web app tool from scratch to production
General Assembly - User Experience Design Instructor
2016 - 2018 (part-time)
Lead UX and human-centered design focused lectures and mentored students
Volunteer
Junior League
2019 - Present
🫶 Volunteer in my local community through action, collaboration, and training with organizations such as Remerge (a diversion program for moms), Pivot (supporting homeless youth), Boys & Girls Club (teaching healthy eating habits)
OKC Design + Tech - Co-Organizer
2018 - 2021
📆 Manage monthly events including sourcing both veteran and new keynote speakers
🪴 Strategize and execute strategy to grow the budding UX/UI design community along with fostering education for UX-adjacent roles, such a graphic designers and developers
UXOK - Co-Organizer & CHair of speaker committee
2019 - 2021
🎉 Collaborate with design leaders around Oklahoma to bring the first UX conference to the state
📣 Lead speaker committee on blind speaker selection and recruitment for 2 keynotes
Education
D.MBA
Business Strategy and Design Leadership
2023 (Remote)
General Assembly
User Experience (UX) Design Immersion Program
Washington, D.C.
University of Ottawa
Honors Bachelor’s degree in International Politics & French, minor in Italian
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italian Language and Culture
Florence, Italy