Lead UI/UX and product designer with 5+ years of experience designing end-to-end digital products, brand systems and scalable design systems for cultural institutions, healthcare and national member associations. I own the full design arc, from user research and stakeholder workshops through prototyping, UI and branding to production-ready React/Next.js front ends, using AI-assisted workflows to tighten design-to-development handoff.
Experience
Adage Technologies
2021 – Present
Chicago, IL
- Lead Designer2026 – Present
- Senior UI/UX Designer2022 – 2026
- UX/UI Designer2021 – 2022
Digital agency serving performing-arts, museum, healthcare and national-association clients. Promoted from designer to Lead in under five years while mentoring junior designers.
- Led research and design for the American Academy of Pediatrics' consumer health platform, reaching millions of parents. Drove user interviews, surveys and focus groups into an accessibility-first (WCAG) brand and theming system.
- Led two days of discovery workshops for the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, shaping recommendations for digital integrations and visual design updates that reduced visitor friction and raised patron satisfaction.
- Established the agency's largest design system for the Institute of Food Technologists (12 page templates, 16 modular content blocks, and page-level theming) and led the rebrand of a legacy scientific association for a younger audience. Mentored a junior designer and won a Phase 2 engagement.
- Unified 6 sister organizations of the American Retirement Association under one adaptive design system. Facilitated 3 days of executive discovery workshops, launched a digital magazine with ad-sellable templates and re-architected a 300-page annual report.
- Led the end-to-end redesign of Wolf Trap, the national park for the performing arts. Ran 3 days of on-site discovery workshops and delivered a themeable, component-based Umbraco design system that made event information easier to find, leading to fewer support calls and more site traffic.
- Designed a .NET MAUI native app for the American Retirement Association's 30,000+ retirement professionals, with multi-org theming, AI-powered search and in-app member messaging. Final design was unveiled by the CEO at the organization's national conference.
- Partnered with Bruce Mau Design to extend the National Ballet of Canada's brand refresh into a flexible CMS with custom motion design. Featured on Brand New and It's Nice That.
- Completed a patient-first redesign as the sole designer for Access Community Health Network (35+ clinic locations), including custom find-a-doctor and location-finder tools.
- Co-led a full digital rebrand for the San Francisco Opera's post-pandemic reopening: poster-driven page theming, a custom end-to-end checkout and a dynamic navigation system.
Additional clients: Met Opera, New York Philharmonic, Lyric Opera, Center Theatre Group, The Music Center, Arsht Center, New World Symphony, North Carolina Museum of Art, ZACH Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Company
Celtic Chicago, Inc.
2018 – 2021
Greater Chicago Area
- Digital Project Coordinator2018 – 2021
Coordinated digital projects from scoping through delivery across a range of client engagements.
LFI Labs
2017 – 2018
Chicago, IL
- Content Marketing Specialist2017 – 2018
Created content and marketing assets for early-stage digital products.
The Crowdfunding Blog
2016 – 2017
Naperville, IL
- Marketing Manager2016 – 2017
Managed marketing and promotional content for the publication.
Skills
Design
Research
Platforms
Systems
Leadership
Tools
Front-end
Education
North Central College
Marketing / Management
Cultural immersion programs in China, Greece and Italy
2013 – 2017
Interests
Languages