I've been a designer since 2008 — starting in graphic design and front-end development, moving through art direction and design leadership, and arriving at product design for complex, high-stakes systems. At Visa I designed economic intelligence dashboards for central banks and a card benefits platform used by issuing banks across millions of accounts. At Kaiser Permanente I made healthcare billing legible for patients under pressure. At Alation I learned SQL from scratch so I could design data catalog interfaces that reflected how the system actually worked, not how I imagined it did.

Today I work at the intersection of design and AI. I design in Figma with full token and component systems, then use Claude Code and Figma MCP to build working prototypes in code — deployed, interactive, handed to engineering as something they can actually implement. I write the brief. I direct the build. I iterate until it's right.

I'm a native of the Bay Area, though I've lived in Miami, Brooklyn, Portland, and Nevada City — and traveled around the world twice so far, though I keep finding my way back home to the Bay. I sail, make music, do theater stuff, go deep into the California wilderness when I can. I love to cook, make art, and go climbing both indoor and outdoor.