I believe nearly everything is a design problem.

Whether I’m designing an org, an ops system, an experience, or an interface, I use the same mindset. I’m a systems thinker with with the heart of a designer — equal parts strategist, builder, and creative problem solver.

My experience spans industries and domains, from cybersecurity to ecommerce, combining product and strategic thinking to drive business impact and team growth.

Hello, I’m Christine.

What I do

Currently, I’m a Senior Director of Product Design at a top-tier cybersecurity company. For the past 6 years, I’ve led and scaled design, starting as a Sr Design Manager with a team of 5 growing to Sr Director with a team of 85.

Today, my focus is on:

  • Connecting strategy to execution across platform and product ecosystems

  • Designing operational frameworks that let teams move quickly and sustainably

  • Building trusted partnerships that elevate design into a strategic role

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The Design Impact Pyramid: How I build the conditions for lasting product impact through team growth, scalable systems, and strategic alignment.

I lead now, but I started with craft…

Before moving into management, I spent a decade as a hands-on designer, researcher, content strategist, and architect. I’ve also led full UX teams of designers, writers, researchers, ops, and QA. That foundation still grounds how I lead: with fluency in the craft, awareness of constraints, and feedback that’s both strategic and specific.

I also hold an MFA in Fashion, and a handful of certificates in things like AI leadership, data visualization, and illustration (with a few credits in musical theatre and vocal performance along the way), and I’m currently working on my second Master’s degree in Data Analytics and Visualization. I’ve worked with global companies including IDEO, Lowes, The Hershey Company, Dell, Quest, and Ricoh, as well as small businesses, startups, nonprofits, and pet rescue orgs.

Beyond the org chart: teaching, mentoring, and independent impact

    • Mentored upwards of 50 mentees via Springboard, the Interaction Design Foundation UX bootcamp, and independently.

    • Participated as a mentor for Charleston Women in Tech and mentored individually and small cohorts/groups

    • Consulted on RookieUp and Interaction Design Foundation overall curriculum design for multiple UX bootcamps

      • Helped shift the programs so they focused on helping students solve problems not just check boxes in projects

    • Authored portions of Springboard’s UX Bootcamp curriculum related to UX research

    • Featured speaker for multiple years at Benefitfocus’ annual sales conference

    • Speaker at Giant Conf 2015

    • Ran workshops with customers and internal employees to train them on how to conduct UX research and parse through data to gain insights

  • Some of the highlights from my freelance work:

    • Designed web interface for client-scheduling tool

    • Designed website for therapy-therapist matching app

    • Conducted research for how patients and caregivers would use a smart shoe insert and its related app to detect and prevent falls in patients suffering from neuropathy

    • Built a research database using social media marketing, and created a full participant recruitment and engagement program for an agency that worked with several clients

    • Created the initial user interface designs for a healthcare communication app

Where I’m going:

My future is data

I’m building a data art practice that treats information as material culture. Not simply something we analyze or visualize, but something we can inhabit and experience.

Today, I design platforms, dashboards, and operational systems. Long term, I’m interested in embodied data in installations, wearables, and exhibition-scale work that translate complexity into cultural experience.

To ground this direction in rigor, I’m pursuing graduate study in data analytics and visualization, deepening my fluency in analytical methods, technical systems, and visual architecture. In parallel, I’m expanding my studio practice to explore how data can inhabit physical mediums — from installation to wearable form.

Long term, I’m focused on embodied data: translating complex systems into cultural experiences that are immersive, tactile, and experiential.

This direction brings together the full arc of my background, including theatre and stagecraft, journalism and media, retail design and fashion merchandising, and product and service design.

Outside of work…

You’ll likely find me running along the coast, re-centering at the yoga studio, juggling multiple creative side projects, taking classes, rescuing beagles, learning about marine science and conservation, reading three books at once, and experimenting in both the kitchen and at my art table.

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Photography, art, and meanderings by the sea — every day glimmers from the beaches of Australia to the pages of my sketchbook

Based in Melbourne, VIC, Australia // US Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident

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Full working rights in both the US and Australia. More than a decade of experience working remotely with globally distributed teams across time zones, disciplines, and product verticals.