I live in Los Angeles and work as a UX Designer at TechAhead, a full-stack development studio. I engage a variety of clients, first-time founder and Fortune 200 company alike, at a variety of stages, from blank slate to scaling + iterating.

My experience working at an agency has been invaluable. Each project feels like a boot-strapped start-up. I get to quickly try on many hats, squeezing until they fit. I’ve been scrappy, in a word, carrying the baton at many different phases of the product lifecycle.

Each stakeholder wields different motivations; feasibility, timeliness, resource allocation, perfection. As a designer, my advocacy is betrothed to the user, but I have evolved as a mediator to best champion project success. I’ve learned to leverage user empathy as a shared language and as a rally point for unity.

We are a design-first shop; therefore, I am of the first team members to interface with clients. My goal is to lay the foundation not only in output, but also in relationship. To build this rapport on the fly I have personalized a suite of discovery workshops & tools to foster harmony and promote collaboration.