Founding member of Boeing's global enterprise design system team, serving engineers and designers across the globe.

• Conceived, built, and owned the designer and developer Starterkit: a live reference for behavior, options, typography, patterns, and page layouts, with direct links to Figma source files, documentation, Storybook, and code repos.
• Reduced gaps between design and implementation by continuously auditing Figma-to-code mismatches.
• Coached designers on how Figma architecture decisions, including token usage and component logic, affect downstream implementation.
• Maintained the library, documentation, and Storybook resources that kept design system standards accessible and current.
• Reduced research time and improved the depth and quality of technical analysis by integrating enterprise AI tools into design system strategy, repository analysis, code authoring, documentation, and roadmap development.

Founded UX Engineering as a formal discipline through two years of research, executive alignment, and a structured one-year pilot that introduced a new way of thinking about collaboration and process.

• Established UX Engineering as an HR-recognized discipline with a defined operating model, scope, and success criteria.
• Drove alignment across PMs, POs, and senior leaders that cascaded to their direct reports by providing talks and joining portfolio-leader staff meetings.
• Led UX strategy for an enterprise-wide developer portal migration, directing supporting designers and surfacing discoverability as the primary barrier engineers faced navigating available APIs.
• Accelerated capability within product teams by embedding on short-term engagements and demonstrating methodology in practice.

Promoted to Lead UX Designer / Front-End Developer and converted to full-time after being hired as a contract User Experience Design Specialist, based on demonstrated ability to deliver production-ready front-end code directly to middleware and back-end developers.

• Full product UX ownership for aviation software serving 400+ organizations and 400,000+ devices worldwide.
• Reduced support contacts by more than 80% through research-grounded redesign of administrator workflows.
• Eliminated front-end implementation burden on developers by delivering prototyped Angular code integrated directly into shipping products.
• Stood up and led ongoing cross-functional workshops that surfaced the design-engineering friction behind founding UX Engineering as a formal discipline at Boeing.

Promoted to Senior and converted to full-time after being hired as a contract UX/UI designer, adding front-end implementation responsibility across web and mobile products for a nationwide pop-up retail platform.

• Owned the marketing website's implementation, publishing directly to live.
• Reduced interpretation gaps across the admin portal and consumer mobile app by delivering prototyped front-end code.

Built a 100% referral-based consultancy with multi-decade client retention spanning global non-profits through Fortune 500 organizations.

• Launched 160+ websites over two decades.
• Served as strategic design consultant to a Silicon Valley branding firm for 10+ years.
• Owned the full delivery lifecycle from discovery through rollout, building deep understanding of how communication, process, and design decisions shape long-term client relationships.

Editorial design and production for nationally-distributed consumer and trade magazines.