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Selective · RemoteI’m a UX and product design leader with twenty-plus years of experience — most of it inside organizations going through some version of transition. New leadership, new tech, new market pressure. The problems that tend to land on my desk are the ones that resist easy framing.
I work with a small number of clients at a time. That’s intentional.
What I do
UX strategy and design leadership
I work at the intersection of product, design, and organizational reality. That means I can design the thing and I can also help you figure out what the thing should be — and whether your team is set up to build and maintain it.
The work usually falls into a few categories:
- Product design for complex problems. Healthcare, enterprise, SaaS. Workflows that have to work for people who have no patience for bad software because their job depends on it. I’ve shipped within HIPAA constraints, inside Oracle’s ecosystem, inside organizations where “just redesign it” wasn’t an option.
- Design system work. Building them, documenting them, rescuing ones that drifted. I have opinions about when a design system helps and when it becomes the project.
- Design leadership and mentorship. Fractional design leadership, team coaching, process work. If your design team is talented but not quite clicking, that’s a thing I can help with.
- AI integration in design workflows. I’m actively using AI tools in my practice and thinking carefully about where they help and where they create false confidence. If your team is trying to figure out what this actually changes, I can think through it with you from inside the work.
- Design partner on creative work. Brand systems, marketing surfaces, product launches — the kind of engagement where the visual problem is the work, not a downstream artifact of a strategy doc. I came up in advertising and motion design and I still take this work.
How I work
A few things worth knowing upfront
- I’m direct. I’ll tell you what I see, including the parts that might be uncomfortable. That’s not a style choice — it’s the thing that makes the engagement worth it.
- I work best when I have access to the people who use the product, not just the people who built it. User proximity is non-negotiable for me. Remote research works. Secondhand research usually doesn’t.
- I don’t take on projects where I can’t do the work well. That means I’ll tell you if you need something I’m not the right fit for. The design industry is small enough that a referral is worth more than a contract I shouldn’t have taken.
- I’m based in Kansas City. I work remotely and I travel for the right project.
Current availability
What’s open
I’m selectively available for project and fractional engagements. I keep my plate thin enough to actually think.
If you have something specific in mind, the fastest path is a direct email. Tell me what you’re working on, where it’s stuck, and roughly what you’re looking for. I’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a fit.
Not the right fit
What I don’t do
Visual production without strategy. Short-turnaround execution projects where there’s no room to ask questions. Projects where the design decisions have already been made and you need someone to draw them.
If you’re looking for those things, I’m happy to point you toward someone who does them well.
The biography is on the About page. The work is in the case studies. The structured career data is on the resume.