About
Lead product designer and consultant with a 15+ years of experience designing, building, and consulting. Collaborates with companies building products that emphasize accessibility, usability, and inclusion. Focused on qualitative user research, data-driven design, and iterative product development.
Work Experience
2022 - 2023 • Client: Ruby Central
Led branding and web design efforts for the annual RubyConf and RailsConf conferences.
2020 - 2021 • Client: Pinterest Helped design a RBAC dashboard and onboarding experience for their B2B platform.
As design lead, my role was to mentor my fellow designers and help them grow their skills, shape a robust design culture, expand hiring practices for our growing team, and conduct team reviews.
I also helped lead several design integration efforts between HeyDoctor's consumer product and GoodRx after their acquisition.
Helped design and build experiences for companies of varying sizes.
• Clients: Aetna, Clearbit, Fond (formerly Anyperk), Parsyl
• Services offered: facilitating product design sprints, rapid prototyping, creating and improving design systems, UX design, and high-fidelity UI design.
As Design Director, managed hiring practices for the design team, contributed to sales efforts, and conducted team reviews
- Led product design sprints with clients, administered user testing and research, and built products through front-end design & development
- Clients: Tile, Funding Circle, Anheuser Busch, Teespring
• Co-founded a design consulting agency (Whitten & Burr)
• Co-founded a product company (Menuish), backed by a local Portland accelerator
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• Worked at Puppet Labs as a UX developer and learned a lot about git, JS frameworks and CLI tools
• Worked at Dachis Group, a social media company, as a front-end developer
• Worked at CMD Agency as an interactive designer