Driven and passionate front-end web developer and engineer offering 20+ years leading key design engineering initiatives. Known as an expert in delivering innovative, reliable, cost-saving solutions and strategies that streamline processes and drive business growth in a fast-paced environment.

2024 — NowPulumiSenior User Experience Designer

2024 — Now

Seattle, Washington, United States

2008 — NowbeneficialmediaGraphic Designer

2008 — Now

Beneficialmedia, llc. is a small design studio.

2022 — 2024EightfoldLead UX Engineer

2022 — 2024

United States

Creator, core contributor, Octuple component library.

Managed a consistently changing v-team of engineers using agile scrum methodology, Jira and Kanban.

Drafted a UX migration plan to move away from local and third-party components to use Eightfold’s Octuple design system.

Increased usage of Octuple component library and systems design via extensive design and developer documentation and support from 0 to over 10,000 implementation points in Eightfold production apps within 8 months.

Implemented Quality Assurance checks and balances to ensure risk mitigation by holistic regression test methodologies.

Winner, Eightfold Innovation Award 2022

2017 — 2022MicrosoftDesign Engineer 2

2017 — 2022

redmond, washington

Drive success within architecture of OneNote web application accessibility features, achieving SLA attainment of level-C accessibility standards.

Lead UX/UI prototyping for Reading Assignments and Immersive Reader, strongly focusing on process, production, and engineering, and contributing critical code to 3 winning (best overall, best in category) Microsoft Hackathon projects.

Support Immersive Reader scaling from zero to 46M MAU across multiple platforms by creating React prototype, scaling directly to production, and improving portability and designing for use by any web experience.

Drive process and creation of quick-cadence executive presentations representing Microsoft Education product vision, iterating quickly as products evolved keeping internal stakeholders informed of UX progress.

Coordinate longitudinal research studies culminating into extensible features originating from Microsoft Classroom to Microsoft Teams Assignments and OneNote class notebooks.

2016 — 2017MicrosoftDesign Developer 2

2016 — 2017

Redmond, Washington

Transitioned to leading engineering and front-end development for Microsoft Classroom and School Data Sync.

Managed on-call engineer rotation and live site incident mitigation, successfully completing resolution tasks, telemetry implementation, and continuous delivery-focused devops.

Innovated Immersive Reader web application concept, taking app from zero users to a fully formed reality.

Education

Harvard Extension School

Master's degree

the Art Institute of Seattle

BFA

The Defense Information School

Experience+

Education

Master's degree

BFA

Diploma