Nashville Metropolitan Area
I’m a Product Design Lead who specializes in platform UX, design systems, and complex enterprise software. I love tackling tough design challenges and building systems that help teams deliver better products faster. Over the past two decades at companies like Schneider Electric and UKG, I’ve helped design and evolve enterprise platforms used by millions of people worldwide. My work spans product UX, large-scale design systems, information architecture, and the workflows that power critical business operations. I’m particularly passionate about systems thinking: helping teams move beyond individual screens to create coherent, scalable product ecosystems. That includes mentoring designers and engineers, shaping platform architecture, and advocating for design systems as strategic products. At both Schneider Electric and UKG, I helped negotiate for, establish, and evolve design systems that improved consistency, reduced time to market, and strengthened the user experience across entire product suites. I am committed to inclusive design and believe great products happen when we balance user needs, business goals, and thoughtful engineering.
Product Design Lead for the Emissions Measurement and Platform teams within Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Business, focused on platform UX, systems thinking, and scalable patterns for carbon accounting and compliance. • Led design for emissions measurement workflows including data imports, inventory management, and data request campaigns, balancing regulatory compliance with usability for expert and non-expert users. • Conducted customer and stakeholder interviews to determine Jobs To Be Done, translating insights into system design decisions across imports, data campaigns, and reporting workflows. • Information architecture & platform home: Defined information architecture and home experiences for the sustainability platform, reframing it as an attention and awareness system highlighting what matters now and why. • Designed notification and briefing system establishing severity, prioritization, and role-based awareness patterns to reduce noise and support timely action. • Led usability testing for emissions imports and data campaigns; mentored interns in facilitation, synthesis, and translating findings into design improvements. • Partnered with product and engineering in a triad model, contributing systems thinking across navigation, app shell, page layout patterns, and container behaviors. • Led early conversational and agentic AI orchestration concepts, embedding contextual calls to action and defining guardrails for trust, explainability, and progressive disclosure. • Design system advocacy: Developed and presented the business case for treating the design system as a product, advocating ownership, roadmap thinking, and governance. • Mentored a designer into a Design System Lead and a design manager into a Product Owner role, supporting growth in systems thinking and leadership. • Supported transition from inconsistent UI patterns to the Quartz Design System, creating crossover templates to bridge legacy work with system adoption.
• Led cross-platform design system development, standardizing components and tokens across 15 global product lines, including web and responsive mobile. Enhanced Figma libraries with variants, properties, and interactive prototypes for native and mobile web. • Secured Design Syste investment: Negotiated with leadership to secure a $1.2M annual investment for the Ignite Design System. Advocated for a Material-based foundation, enhancing only when providing distinct business value and aligning with industry trends. • Increased team productivity: Implemented office hours, increasing productivity by 25% across design and dev teams. Fostered collaboration across 60+ designers to support shared problem-solving. • Delivered comprehensive design artifacts: Created mobile-first Figma components with full variant support and tokens. Delivered documentation for native and mobile web teams aligned with Material and HIG. Developed WCAG 2.2 AA design specs and tested coded layouts using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, and GitHub. • Improved developer experience: Led research to improve design-to-dev handoff, collaborating with engineers to define component APIs, ensure Figma/code parity, and streamline workflows across mobile, JS, Angular, and React. • Reengineered information architecture and navigation: Partnered with product, engineering, and support to overhaul Pro Suite’s IA and navigation, improving wayfinding and efficiency. • Used generative AI for design & prototyping: Applied AI to align content and assist with interactive prototypes. • Integrated conversational AI: Developed use cases for AI in HR, such as time-off management, highlighting innovation and analytical design skills.
• Contributed to design system evolution: Transitioned design system assets from Sketch to Figma, optimizing the user flows and ensuring components met product team needs, reflecting design system management expertise. • Led end-to-end product design for complex digital products, ensuring dev alignment. Aligned design with business strategy: Collaborated with product management, engineering, and research teams to align design decisions with business goals, demonstrating analytical skills and stakeholder communication. • Achieved high customer satisfaction: Designed key features like an actionable organization chart, contributing to high customer satisfaction, relevant to financial technology
• Led and Mentored Design Teams: Led and mentored a team of 6 designers, providing guidance in user-centered methodologies, systems thinking, and enterprise design practices, helping team members grow and achieve their professional goals. • Pioneered Mobile Application Design: Led the design strategy for UKG’s first responsive, omni-channel mobile app, delivering critical features for desktop and mobile apps and successfully launching in Android and iOS stores in less than a year. Improved user engagement and established future mobile features. • Strategic Roadmapping: Developed and implemented strategic roadmaps for multiple product initiatives. Prioritized features and aligned business goals based on user research to deliver immediate customer value.
Strategic Thinking: Used my extensive understanding of user needs, design principles, and HR domain knowledge, combined with computer science fundamentals, to deliver highly usable solutions. Prototyping & Usability Testing: Developed high-fidelity prototypes in Figma, Sketch, and code, facilitating usability testing sessions to refine designs based on user feedback. Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Mentored product managers in effectively eliciting and prioritizing requirements, guided designers in creating design flows and adhering to standards and patterns, and coached developers on best practices for composing and implementing design system components. Articulated clear design rationale during stakeholder presentations, ensuring design decisions were well-supported and understood.
• Cross-Platform Design: Developed intranet sites and digital materials for various departments, focusing on cohesive design standards and user-friendly interfaces. Created style guides to ensure consistency across platforms. • Creative Design: Delivered engaging print and digital designs that aligned with Deloitte’s brand identity and business needs, including animations and visual assets.