Experience

Senior Product Designer

Elastic Suite ↗︎ Oct 2020 – Present Fully Remote

Leading design across the platform, from catalog browsing to order workflows, for a B2B ecosystem used by global brands like Stanley, New Balance, and The North Face.

  • Leading design vision and execution for an industry-leading B2B ecommerce and digital merchandising platform. Designed core experiences including dynamic catalogs, drag-and-drop merchandising whiteboards, personalized collections, streamlined order workflows, shoppable campaigns, and a full mobile app, helping transform wholesale selling into a modern, scalable digital ecosystem.
  • Architected and maintained a large-scale design system spanning the platform's full product surface, establishing shared foundations that accelerated delivery and ensured consistency across a growing product portfolio.
  • Took on a direct management role for one designer, supporting their professional development alongside day-to-day design collaboration.

User Experience Designer II

Dealertrack / Cox Automotive ↗︎ July 2016 – July 2020 Sacramento, CA

Research-led redesigns that measurably improved satisfaction across nationally-used automotive products serving thousands of dealerships.

  • Worked with developers and stakeholders to produce efficiencies for multiple internal and external products used nationally within the Automobile industry.
  • Drastically increased customer confidence and satisfaction by ensuring iterative design decisions were based on data, research, testing, and interviews.
  • Conducted usability tests, heuristic evaluations, A/B testing, card sorting, paper prototypes, and screen prototypes, and created reports showcasing findings.
  • Tracked usability goals and prepared reports for senior management and stakeholders.
  • Participated in creating a content development strategy revolving around agile quarterly goals and sprints.
  • Developed detailed UX user personas, design documentation, and styleguides for development teams.

UX/UI & Interaction Designer

Breyta ↗︎ April 2015 – July 2016 Davis, CA

Designed global-scale intranet solutions for J&J, Sanofi, and Amgen, used by hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide.

  • Created intranet solutions and strategies for Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and biotech clients, working across complex regulated enterprise environments.
  • Conducted roundtables, interviews, A/B testing, and usability sessions, using the qualitative findings to guide design and development decisions.
  • Designed and developed solutions end-to-end, from sketches and flows through highly functional prototypes to final production code.

Software Designer – UI/UX (Contracted)

Elastic Suite ↗︎ October 2014 – March 2015 Fully Remote

Contracted to lead design on TaylorMade and Adidas Golf's B2B merchandising solution, delivering a global product that drove measurable sales growth for the platform.

  • Worked with stakeholders to define launch goals spanning sales, user experience, product awareness, and customer upsell.
  • Interviewed users to inform a UX and visual design built for global rollout.
  • Collaborated with engineers throughout front-end development to ensure UX and UI goals shipped as designed.

Lead Designer & Front-End Developer

Quipt ↗︎ April 2012 – October 2014 Folsom, CA

Led both design and front-end development from first concept to shipped product on a B2B commerce platform built to manage entire e-commerce ecosystems.

  • Designed and developed end-to-end, from sketches and flows through highly functional prototypes to final code for the web.
  • Interviewed users and stakeholders to produce detailed personas, user-flow matrices, design documentation, and UI styleguides for the engineering team.

Designer & Front-End Developer

BKWLD ↗︎ March 2010 – April 2012 Sacramento, CA

Designed and developed consumer-facing digital experiences across web, email, mobile, and desktop for a diverse client roster at a full-service digital agency.

  • Designed and developed direct-to-consumer websites, email newsletters, and mobile and desktop applications across a variety of industries.
  • Contributed to marketing initiatives that drove user engagement and measurable growth for clients.

Impact

Specific features and workflows I led design on at Elastic Suite, and the measurable shifts they produced for the teams using them. The throughline: replacing manual day-to-day work (spreadsheets, phone calls, printed catalogs) with tools that give sales reps and buyers more time for the parts of their job that actually matter.

$18B+

Annual GMV flowing through tools I led design on.

275+

Brand teams relying on the platform every day to run their wholesale business.

80K+

Weekly active sales reps and retailers using the platform's order workflows.

+4pp

Order conversion rate lift (57.6% → 61.7%) period-over-period on the order-build flow — ~8,400 additional completed orders.

10K+

Monthly interactions on the Custom Collection Builder I designed, used by both sales reps and retailers across 10+ brand teams.

VP of Sales

Roark

"We're reducing friction in the buying process and making day-to-day interactions more efficient. Ease of use directly translates to stronger pre-book performance, improved reorder cadence, and a premium experience for our retailers."

On the order and buying flow

Senior Sales Manager

DU/ER

"Elastic's whiteboarding tool allows me to create an assortment and work with my buyers while they're laying things up on a grid. I export a PDF and share it with them before they leave the appointment."

On the Whiteboard tool

B2B Manager

Free Fly

"The Elastic campaigns are very easy to use and are helping our team streamline communication with retailers. The templates save marketing resources and enable sales reps to tailor messaging to their accounts."

On the integrated Email Campaigns

VP of Finance

Simms

"Elastic's Online Payment Portal has reduced our accounts-receivable staffing requirements by approximately 25% while improving service with 24/7 access. Buyers no longer need to call or email us."

On the Online Payment Portal

Skills

Complex Product Design

  • Information Architecture & Systems Thinking
  • Responsive Scaling (Mobile/Web)
  • Scalable Design Foundations
  • Design Systems & Componentization

User Research & Evaluative Strategy

  • Heuristic & Usability Auditing
  • Stakeholder & User Interviewing
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Persona & Journey Documentation

AI-Augmented Product Design

  • Prompt Engineering for Synthesis
  • Divergent Iteration Acceleration
  • Automated Microcopy & Wireframing
  • Interactive Prototyping for Validation

Cross-Functional Leadership & "Design-to-Dev" Synergy

  • Design System Governance
  • Technical Feasibility Consulting
  • Front-End Fluency
  • Agile Integration

Education

California State University, Sacramento (CSUS)

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design

Emphasis on the Web