Design Leadership

Shaping digital
experiences for
over 30 years

Senior UX Design Manager at Workday, Adjunct Professor at Northwestern's Segal Design Institute, and founder of KickSchedule. I build teams, mentor designers, and craft platform experiences at scale.

30+
Years in Design
500+
Designers Mentored
12
Companies Shaped
3
Ventures Founded
Career Arc

From the dawn of the web
to the future of work

Yahoo '95 Netscape AOL Texas Instruments HP IBM Oracle GE Aerospace SAP Cisco CVS Health VMware Workday
2022 — Present
Sr Manager, UX Design
Workday

Leading Platform Experiences Essentials — Home, Navigation, Search, and Conversational Design. Pioneering AI integration across the platform experience.

2020 — 2022
Sr Manager, UX
VMware

Empowered product designers and managers delivering CloudHealth and Secure State experiences at enterprise scale.

2019 — 2021
Sr Manager, UX Design
CVS Health

Behavior change design for 20M+ Aetna members. Delivered $40M+ yearly cost savings through proactive health experiences.

2019 — 2020
Sr Manager, Product Design
Cisco

Led design for next-gen virtual networking — vManage & SD-WAN. Transformed products from hardware sales to subscription model.

2017 — 2019
Design Director
SAP

Expert Design Thinking Coach at SAP Labs. Secured the 2019 SAP Innovation Award for the NHL Coaching App. Led workshops with Tier-1 customers.

2014 — 2017
Principal UX Architect
Oracle

Designed Oracle Alta Design System, JET Framework components, and the Chatbot Minibuilder — an industry standard for building chatbots.

Ventures & Projects

Building things
that matter

Educator & Mentor

Empowering the next
generation of designers

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Northwestern University
Adjunct Professor • Segal Design Institute

Teaching human-centered design and innovation through design thinking. Guiding students in empathy-driven research and rapid prototyping.

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Springboard & LSU
UX Educator & Mentor • 5 Years

Mentored hundreds of aspiring designers through immersive UX/UI programs. Most Requested Mentor 2021 & 2022.

General Assembly
UX Design Instructor • 2 Years

Led hands-on UX design courses helping career changers break into the design industry with practical skills.

2019
SAP Innovation Award
2021
Most Requested Mentor
2022
Most Requested Mentor

Let's build
something together

Whether it's a design challenge, a mentorship conversation, or a new venture — I'm always open to connecting.