ABOUT
I'm a product and design leader with a multipassionate background and an emerging practice in data art and physicalisation.
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 7 years building and scaling the design organisation from a scrappy team of 6 to a full-scale org of 115. Today I lead that full organisation, which is made up of 11 product design teams spanning the entirety of the product, platform, and design system, plus a dedicated ops division of 3 additional teams.
My work spans design strategy, platform decision-making, operational enablement, 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 have led full UX teams of designers, writers, researchers, ops, and QA. This background created the foundation of my current leadership: 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 visualisation, and illustration, with a thread of musical theatre and vocal performance woven in for good measure from my earlier university days. I've worked across enterprise software, ecommerce, consumer products, and agencies.
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 analyse or visualise, but something we can inhabit and experience.
I'm pursuing graduate study in data analytics and visualisation to ground this in both analytical rigour and technical systems with a focus on installations, wearables, movement, and exhibition-scale work
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.
LIFE BY THE NUMBERS
70
races run
from 5Ks to marathons
9
dogs adopted (7 beagles, 2 lab-staffy mixes) + many more hounds fostered
2
countries lived in
USA + Australia
6
educational achievements: 2 degrees + 1 in progress, 3 certificates + a whole bunch of short courses
50+
mentees mentored