I'm the rare designer who's just as comfortable in a stakeholder whiteboard session as shipping pixel-perfect components. Over 25+ years, I've moved fluidly across the full range of a design career — collaborating with VPs on vision, mentoring senior designers, and still getting hands-on with junior ones. That range is the point: I don't just manage design; I still make it.I lead from the room, not behind a screen: extroverted, hands-on, and most effective when design, product, and engineering are solving problems together.

My forte is steering cross-functional teams through real constraints — tight timelines, regulatory requirements, a startup wearing five hats. Recently, that's meant pairing Claude Design with Figma to take concepts from whiteboard to interactive prototype in days, without losing fidelity to the design system — expertise built across cybersecurity, fintech, and consumer products.