Work with me
Open to full-time roles from Senior IC through Director, and to contract, fractional, or workshop engagements while the search runs. Remote or hybrid, Kansas City base, no relocation.
Full-time roles
Open to Work titles: Senior Product Designer, Staff Designer, Principal Designer, Design Systems Manager, UX Manager, UX Director.
Best fit is a team building in a regulated or high-consequence domain — healthcare, fintech, infrastructure, AI tooling, government — or a team standing up the AI design pipeline work that ties design systems to model-generated UI. Past employers have been Cerner and Oracle Health; the lessons travel.
Not a fit: full relocation out of Kansas City, or on-site five days a week.
Contract and fractional
Available for design-system audits, AI design pipeline prototyping (RAG + vector database + MCP server, integrated with whatever generation surface you're using), and fractional UX leadership for teams without a head of design. Typical engagements run six to twelve weeks for an audit or prototype, longer for fractional leadership.
Day rates on request.
Workshops and advisory
Half-day or full-day formats:
- AI design pipelines. What a RAG-backed pipeline looks like end to end, where it tends to fail, and what your design org has to produce to feed it.
- Domain Foundation methodology. Encoding institutional design expertise as layered, machine-readable knowledge an AI can reason with. The case study lives at /work/domain-foundation/.
- Design-system governance. What I learned across three and a half years on Terra at Cerner — the gap between standards and shipped components, and the practices that close it.
Best fit for design leadership, design-system teams, and product orgs trying to figure out where AI fits in their tooling without burning a quarter.
Get in touch
Email is the fastest path. Tell me which of the three above fits — or that none of them does, and what you're actually trying to do.