Twenty years of designing products, building organizations, and shaping platforms, and most recently, working with data as art.
What I do:
design at scale
I'm a Senior Director of Product Design at a top-tier cybersecurity company, where I've spent the last 6.5 years building and scaling the design organization from a scrappy team of 6 to a full-scale org of 85. Today my work spans design strategy, platform decision-making, and shipping industry-leading products while building the operational foundations that enable large, distributed teams to do their best work.
Where I’ve been:
deep in craft
Before moving into management, I spent a decade as a hands-on designer, researcher, content strategist, and architect. I also have lead 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.
My background is deliberately broad. I hold an MFA in Fashion, which shaped my thinking about product, systems, and craft in ways a technical degree wouldn't have. I also have certificates in AI leadership, data visualization, and illustration, with a thread of musical theatre and vocal performance woven in for good measure from my earlier university days. I've worked with global companies including IDEO, The Hershey Company, Dell, Quest, Phoenix Contact, and Ricoh, as well as agencies, startups, nonprofits, pet rescues, and small businesses across industries.
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 — installations, wearables, movement, and exhibition-scale work that translate complexity into cultural experience.
To ground this in rigor, I'm pursuing graduate study in data analytics and visualization, deepening my fluency in analytical methods, technical systems, and visual architecture, while also expanding my studio practice to explore how data can inhabit physical mediums, from installation to wearable form.
This direction brings together the full arc of my background, including theatre and stagecraft, journalism and media, retail design and fashion merchandising, and UX/product and service design.
Independent work
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I've mentored more than 50 designers — individually and in cohorts — through Springboard, the Interaction Design Foundation, Charleston Women in Tech, and independently. My range of mentees has included career changers, early career, mid-career shifting to senior, and IC to manager.
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I've consulted on curriculum design for RookieUp, the Interaction Design Foundation, and Springboard's UX Bootcamp, including authoring coursework on UX research. My focus has been shifting programs away from checkbox projects toward the kind of problem-solving that actually prepares designers for the work.
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I've spoken at conferences and run workshops on design leadership, platform thinking, UX research, and the operational systems that make design organizations work. Currently, I'm selectively available for speaking and workshop facilitation.
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My consulting work has spanned health tech, research infrastructure, and early-stage product design as a Director of Product — including product research for medical devices, product design for healthcare applications, and participant recruitment systems for research agencies. I take on a limited number of consulting engagements as time permits.
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.
Photography, art, and meanderings by the sea — every day glimmers from the beaches of Australia to the pages of my sketchbookBased in Melbourne, VIC, Australia // US Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident
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.