Résumé

Head of Design @ Crafted; Denver (2022-2025)

  • Designed MVP for a startup that secured $10M funding round.
  • Co-designed a product that achieved over $10M in sales within its first year.
  • Conducted contextual field research, user interviews, and usability testing.
  • Established DesignOps processes to improve engineering, design and product team collaboration.
  • Mentored in-house and client teams; taught month-long product design class for partners.
  • Impact: Delivered concept to launch in 4 months, while enabling teams to sustain and build design practice.

Staff Design Strategist (and consultant) @ BlueSuit; Denver, CO (2020-2023)

  • Led research on user trust in AI-driven legal document review
  • Designed confidence scores & side-by-side verification patterns, reducing review time 65%.
  • Built & maintained central research repository
  • Partnered and collaborated with as team of PMs, engineers, data scientists, and executives to align product direction.

Design Team Lead @ Teach for America, New York City, NY (2013-2018)

  • Built and managed the in-house design team; introduced lean UX practices org-wide.
  • Partnered with cross-functional leaders to align design with compliance and reporting goals.
  • Led design of mobile-first compliance app, improving application completion +25% overall, +100% on mobile.
  • Mentored and developed junior designers, scaling design culture across the org.

Founder, Researcher and Designer @ The GIN is IN (2009-present)

  • Created the Gin Flavor Map, a research-led taxonomy now widely adopted across the spirits industry.
  • Built a flavor search engine and app, growing to 900K+ annual visitors.
  • Authored multiple books (70K+ copies sold in multiple languages)
  • Published annual Gin Trends Report, providing consumer insights and data analysis to distillers worldwide.

Education

Masters in City and Regional Planning, Pratt Institute

  • GPA 3.9
  • Coursework includes: psychology of design, anthropological research methods, statistics, visual design

B.A. in Environmental Design , University at Buffalo,

  • GPA 3.75
  • Coursework in visual design, public presentation, statistics and research design
  • Minor in English Literature and Writing.
  • Won award for outstanding undergraduate research

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Skills

  • Product Strategy
  • AI/ML Design
  • DesignOps
  • UX Research
  • Product Design
  • Prototyping
    (including in code)
  • Data Analysis
  • ResearchOps
  • Interaction Design
  • Information Architecture
  • Data Visualization