About Me
...one shaped by resourcefulness, creativity, vision, and an unquenchable drive to create meaningful, effective experiences.
You Are Here 📍
Lately, I’ve been focused on sharpening my design skills and refining my sense of taste and discernment. Projects like LeadLyft’s onboarding flow and Divine Equines’ website redesign have allowed me to deliver thoughtful, user-centered solutions that also drive business value. For example, LeadLyft’s onboarding flow was designed to guide users seamlessly through proprietary tasks, creating a stronger foundation for engagement and retention.
Strengths 📈
I thrive at bridging the gap between business needs and user-centered design. Whether I’m conducting user interviews, usability testing, sketching wireframes, or crafting prototypes, I approach challenges with empathy, curiosity, and a designer’s eye for detail. I love turning ideas into thoughtful visual designs that connect the dots between user needs and business goals. My background as a personal trainer taught me how to truly listen—how to uncover hidden pain points and build trust. Those same skills now help me solve design problems with creativity and intention.
Let’s Get Real 🤝
No meaningful journey is without its challenges. My path to product design has been shaped by lessons in resilience, purpose, and compassion. I’ve run businesses, helped teams achieve results beyond their expectations, and learned from my fair share of failures. Each experience reinforced this: open communication, integrity, and thoughtful collaboration are the foundation of meaningful outcomes.
Bring It All Together 🏁
At the core, I just want to create things that matter—to design experiences that feel effortless, solve real problems, and make people’s lives better. Whether it’s simplifying a complex process or creating a moment that makes someone say, “Wow, that was easy,” those moments of impact are what fuel me.
Thank you for reading my story! If this resonates with you or you’d like to explore working together, I’d love to connect.
A Curvy, Windy Path… 🏞️
Experience
Product Design - 4+ years
Coaching, Training, and Sales - 15+ years
Education
Kenyon College (2008)
National Personal Trainer Institute (2013)
Career Foundry UX Intensive Bootcamp (2024)
open to
Full Time Positions
Freelance Projects
Locations
Columbus, Ohio, USA - Current
Denver, Florissant, and Colorado Springs, Colorado
Charleston, South Carolina
Pawling, New York
A few of my Favorite Things
I thoroughly enjoy being a dad.
Team sports and all the good memories and relationships they bring.
Mountain biking and spending time in nature.
Working out and learning new modalities, techniques, and tools.
Playing guitar and having opportunities to explore new instruments.
Reading and I am mostly drawn to history, world religions, philosophy and self-help books.