Multidisciplinary designer with over 15 years of creating products and experiences for transitioning industries, emerging technologies, and everything between.

I'm excited to tackle design challenges that [1] seek to make complex concepts or opaque processes into simple and accessible tools for all; [2] transform everyday tasks into delightful experiences; [3] find ways for making positive impact in people’s lives; and [4] contribute to a healthy, ethical, and equitable environment.

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CNN

Staff Product Designer — Core News, Mobile Apps

Designing the user experience for CNN’s native mobile apps. Seeking new ways to connect people to the world around them. Previous work at CNN included creating a podcast platform with CNN Audio, and launching a premium streaming service with CNN+.

Clarifai

Senior Designer

Designed the visual layer on top of Clarifai's image & video recognition API to demonstrate the power of its underlying features. Owned the design of Explorer and Labeler — a suite of web apps to create, train and evaluate custom models, as well as manage labeling jobs and collaborate with a human workforce on labeling data. Additional projects included online demos, mobile apps, website redesign and brand refresh.

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2014–2016

Napster (formerly Rhapsody Music)

Art Director, User Experience Design

Part of a team that explored the relaunch of Napster as a social platform for discovering new music. Explored ways to interact with and discover new music. Responsibilities included wireframing, user flows, branding and visual design exploration, interactive prototyping, and preparation of production assets.

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2014

Joydot

Interactive Designer

Helped found Joydot — a simple mobile app for tracking and sharing your mood. Responsibilities included lean UX, mobile and web UI, illustration, design production, product naming, branding, and writing microcopy.

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2012–2014

Exfm

Interactive Designer

Designed and launched a major refresh of Exfm — a mobile / web app and browser extension which helped people discover new music through the people and blogs they trust most. Acquired by Rhapsody Music.

2011–2012

Everyday Food Magazine, Martha Stewart Living

Interactive Designer

Helped transition a national cooking digest from print to mobile devices. Responsible for finding moments for interaction and produced digital content to help inspire users to cook confidently, and presenting recipes and editorial features in useful and delightful ways. Collaborated with art directors, design production, photo and video editors. Ate a lot of amazing food.

Further back

UX design for internal reporting software of a major financial institution; branding and packaging for a toy company; multiple furniture and consumer product lines for Martha Stewart; concept modular storage furniture for Japanese micro apartments.