Senior Product Designer
AstrumU
(Bellevue/Hybrid) Dec 2024 - Mar 2025Led design for AU Labs, a new product demonstration portal for future AI-powered feature explorations. Developed and deployed interactive prototypes for user testing, and evaluating product-market fit.
Lead Product Designer
Treasury
(Contract/Remote) Apr 2024 - Jan 2025Redesigned Treasury’s consumer investing web app, improving UX for onboarding, investments, and portfolio management.
Lead Product Designer
Sweet
(Contract/Remote) Mar 2024 - Jan 2025Led brand development, UX, and feature design for Bindings, a web-based marketing app for comic creators, and Find Your Comic Store, a map-based app connecting consumers to local retailers.
Staff Designer, Senior UX Designer
Textio
(Seattle/Remote) Mar 2019 - Mar 2024Served as design lead for Textio’s User Expansion and Insights teams. For the former, I oversaw design and UX for Textio’s integration into third party ATS platforms. For the latter team, I led design for all of our in-app reporting for both Textio Recruiting and Feedback.
Design Director
Black Pixel
(Seattle/Remote) Aug 2014 - Mar 2019Managed an internationally distributed design team. Led staffing and resource management, coordinated with cross-functional leads, and served as lead designer for select iOS, Android, and web projects.
Design Manager, Senior Designer
Mule Design Studio
(San Francisco) Jan 2012 - Aug 2014Led design for select client projects for The Seattle Times, National Audubon Society, and others. Also served as product manager for our Evening Edition news product.
Founder, Principal Designer
Bainbridge Studios
(San Francisco/Seattle/Remote) Apr 2003 - Dec 2011Self-employed as a full-time independent interactive designer, working with small- and medium-sized business clients nationwide. I oversaw identity, print, and web design projects from initial client outreach through design, development and launch. I also managed sub-contracted designers and developers on select larger client projects.
Education
Graphic Design Certification
University of California, Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA) 2004 - 2005I took part in a continuing education certificate program in Graphic Design (while working full-time), to better understand the theoretical principals and history of design, and to develop additional experience with new digital tools.
Master of Science, Doctoral Candidacy in Clinical Psychology
St. John's University
(Jamaica, NY) 1998 - 2002I completed a Master’s degree and reached doctoral candidacy in Clinical Psychology. In addition to clinical and course work, I taught undergraduate classes and conducted and published research on information processing.
Bachelor of Science, Psychology
Pacific Lutheran University
(Tacoma, WA) 1994 - 1998I graduated with honors in Psychology and a minor in Biology. I served as a teaching assistant and conducted, presented, and published research on perceptions of race and criminal involvement.