Connecting the dots,
for decades.
I’m a lateral-thinking, strategic-minded design and product professional with decades of experience driving innovation and growth across B2B and B2C, most recently shipping AI-integrated products in regulated finance and healthcare. I collaborate with stakeholders and advise cross-functional teams to deliver marketable solutions that blend business objectives with the outcomes customers and users actually want.
Colleagues appreciate my ability to balance parallel streams of near-term tactical “get things done” work alongside longer-term goals and vision projects, maintaining the connection between all initiatives so what we do today builds toward, and doesn’t block, a potential future state.
An early adopter through every wave of tooling, from desktop publishing to design systems to generative AI, I’ve learned that each generation compounds into judgment: knowing what’s genuinely useful, how to direct it, and how to carry design intent all the way to shipped product.
Every role, one thread.
In-house teammate, leader and mentor, consultant, and agency principal, working with organizations of all sizes and stages. Each chapter below carries the same thread: research and strategy turned into real, shipped products.
Lab49
PRINCIPAL UX DESIGNER · PRODUCT STRATEGY & DESIGN
Leading design of AI-integrated desktop, web, and mobile solutions for financial and enterprise clients, including a research platform for a $100B+ investment firm, taken from vision to working beta in six months.
J.Y. Design
FRACTIONAL DESIGN LEADER & SENIOR IC
Consulted with agencies and B2B/B2C companies across growth stages, including concept leadership for the workflow-tool redesign of a major entertainment media distribution platform.
Paysign
VP, USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Led front-end experience vision across Financial Services and Patient Affordability verticals; introduced AI-powered prototyping that compressed feedback cycles, and advised the C-suite on growing the digital product team.
SS&C Technologies
DIRECTOR OF UX · DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY & INNOVATION
Six years across investment operations, health, and AI strategy: led UX for award-winning SS&C Aloha, modernized pharmacy claims into DomaniRx (a JV with Humana and Elevance), pioneered code-centric design systems, and contributed to the firm’s cross-product AI center of excellence.
Guidea
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
UX strategy and design leadership for clients including Deserve, WSECU, Ascension Seton, YotaScale, Epson, and Amgen. Facilitated alignment between CEOs and CTOs on objectives and elevating client design maturity.
Pingup
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Early teammate and sole product designer through the startup’s pivot, designing white-label booking experiences for Bing, YP, Yahoo!, and Foursquare, and co-authoring a 2015 patent for chatbot-based appointment booking.
J.Y. Design
INDEPENDENT DESIGN CONSULTANT
Fifteen years leading web, mobile, and native app design for Adobe, AT&T, PayPal, BabyCenter (J&J), Cloudera, InterSystems, Paydiant, Unica, and more, including PayPal’s first branded iPhone checkout flows.
Early Chapters
EXTRAPRISE · MONITOR GROUP · FRAME TECHNOLOGY
Senior design roles spanning FrameMaker product design (Frame Technology, later acquired by Adobe), Monitor Group’s first commercial software, and building a digital design group at Extraprise. BFA, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University.
What is “design,”
when everyone can build?
AI empowers every product thinker to become a creator. That’s a gift, and one that clarifies where experienced design leaders add value.
Taste, grounded in expertise
User psychology, best practices, proven UI patterns: judgment about what should ship, not just what can be built.
Connecting the dots
Seeing across teams and concepts, synthesizing scattered prototypes into one coherent product story.
Design diplomacy
Aligning stakeholders with differing perspectives on a path to shipping things people will rely on and pay for.
Good company, at every stage.
I’ve had the privilege of working with and learning from many amazing people at companies of all sizes and stages across technology, finance, and healthcare.
Adobe Systems
Agenda Hero
Amgen
Ascension Seton
AT&T
Aternity
BabyCenter (Johnson & Johnson)
Carbon Design Systems
Center for Data Quality (C4DQ)
Cloudera
CollabNet
Commonwealth Capital
Datalogix
Deserve
Epson
Extraprise
Frame Technology
Guidea
IHS Markit
InterSystems
Lab49
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
ManageSoft
Millennial Media
Monitor Group (Deloitte)
National Fire Protection Association
Oniqua
Paydiant
PayPal
Paysign
Percussion Software
Pingup (patent co-inventor)
PopUp Play
PROMETRIKA
Rational
RingMaster Software
Salesforce
Seton Healthcare
SS&C Technologies
Unica
University Federal Credit Union
Unosquare
WSECU + QCash
XL Capital
YotaScale
The current stack.
Tooling changes fast. See my frequently updated list of AI apps under evaluation.
UI Design & AI Prototyping
Figma, Adobe Suite, Affinity, Penpot, Subframe, Lovable, Bolt, Google Stitch, MagicPath, Flora AI, Recraft, Ideogram, Midjourney, Runway, Balsamiq
Front-End Development
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, AG-Grid and Charts, Base UI, shadcn/ui, Storybook, GitHub
AI / LLM Platforms
Anthropic Claude (Code, Design, Cowork), OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Manus
Productivity & Collaboration
Microsoft 365 & Teams, Google Workspace, Atlassian Jira & Confluence, Airtable, WordPress
Let's connect.
I'm always glad to talk product strategy, design leadership, and where AI is taking both. Reach out, or learn more about my background.