About me
Senior level product designer with experience designing in health and wellness.
Design with intention
My origin story begins with 13 years as a licensed therapist. I worked in multiple clinics, with a wide spread of demographics, held private practices, and worked in the private and public sectors. It didn't matter what setting I was in, I noticed the same consistent problems. Our system is broken and people who need help the most were paying the price.
Although my work as a provider was valuable, I wanted to help the lines of people not getting the care they deserved. I pivoted to product design and never looked back. A nerd at heart, ambitiously creative, and empathy-centric, I love designing beautiful digital mediums that have meaning and purpose. I'm mission driven, promoting the health and wellness of individuals at scale through product design.
Experience
Volunteer Product Designer
Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC) • 2025 - Present
Helping the Avy product team organize their design system and make the system scalable. In addition, collaborating with their engineering team to make the system development forward.
Senior Product Designer
Optum • 2023 - Present
Current design leader for all AbleTo behavioral health products (consumer and provider facing). Lead designing an engaging cross-product consumer experience integrated with AbleTo's full suite while updating provider tools for session management.
Product Designer
AbleTo • 2021 - 2023
Led the design lifecycle for a mental health coaching app and integrated a referrals and care coordination platform into Optum's ecosystem. Served as the design lead on all therapy and provider products, designing for both consumer and provider-facing interfaces.
Contract Product Designer
Awesome Studios • 2021 (6 month contract)
Designed full product life cycles for the I Think I Have product and updated WowCare's care delivery experience. Utilized Figma for design and Builder.io for development, managing an external engineering team throughout the development process.
Education
UX/UI Specialization
CalArts • 2019 - 2020
M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
University of Wyoming • 2010 - 2012
B.S. in Psychology, B.S. in Business Management
Northern Arizona University • 2004 - 2009
Skills
Design
- Interaction design
- Mobile and desktop (webapp)
- Prompt engineering
- Healthcare product design
- User Experience Research (UXR)
- Rapid prototyping
- Design strategy
Tools
- Figma
- Maze
- v0
- Cursor
- Adobe
- Jira
- Asana