Available for consulting

Experience

20+ years designing products people love.

From early-stage startups to post-acquisition enterprise teams, I've led design across fintech, analytics, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise collaboration.

Work History

Sep 2024
Present

CovenantIQ

VP of Product Design

I'm designing a new product that provides covenant analysis and monitoring for banks and private credit funds by ingesting and standardizing a borrower's general ledger, core banking data and loan covenants. Our team has developed a workflow using AI tools to extract GL and loan details and map them to a standard taxonomy in order to better analyze metrics driving loan covenant. This unified platform allows lenders to mitigate risk through early warning notifications and provides rich insights across their portfolio of loans.

Apr 2021
Sep 2024

Merger → Sep 2024

Stratify

VP of Product Design

I was the founding designer at Stratify, a venture capital startup focused in the financial planning & accounting domain. Based on research with our design partners and our in-house subject matter experts, I designed a platform to support collaborative financial and workforce planning. I drafted PRFAQs, product requirements documents, and designed the product interface and UX. I built the design system, and led the front end engineering team in bringing the product to market.

Jun 2019
Apr 2021

Apptio

Design Director

Following the acquisition of Cloudability by Apptio, I continued to design core product features for the cloud cost management product. I also began to manage the greater Apptio design team of 9 including product designers, visual designers and content developers. Under my leadership we undertook the design and rollout our design system language, Apex, to the entire Apptio product portfolio.

Jan 2016
Jun 2019

Acquisition → Jun 2019

Cloudability

Design Director

I joined Cloudability as a Senior Product Designer and was promoted to Design Director. I co-created, along with product management, the design team, and engineering leadership, an industry leading platform for managing cloud cost across the major cloud providers. Cloudability was acquired by Apptio, who was then acquired by IBM for $4.6bn.

Sep 2014
Dec 2015

Cozy

Design Director

I was hired into Cozy as Director of Design to design and define product strategy. I introduced product management and design best practices, conducted user research through the customer advisory board and managed the design and customer experience teams. This was my first experience in a consumer start-up company.

Dec 2013
Sep 2014

IPO → Dec 2011

Jive Software

Design Manager

I managed and mentored a team of product designers in the Portland and Palo Alto offices across mobile, core platform and emerging product initiatives. I also led product design on the Platform API and Analytics teams.

Apr 2010
Dec 2013

Jive Software

Senior Product Designer

I designed a marketplace for API integrations with the core platform through the Jive Service Registry. The framework allowed 3rd party developers to deploy apps within their Jive communities. I designed Community Manager Reports and Impact Metrics: platform analytics for end-users. Additionally, I designed new products in an R&D capacity with our data science team leveraging Python and graph databases to better understand indicators of healthy online communities.

Apr 2009
Apr 2010

The Standard

Senior Information Architect

I introduced a design methodology through my role within the e-business team. We developed a practice of design research, prototyping and usability testing. The software products we delivered were a partnership with the IBM India Global Delivery Center (GDC) and in-house business analysts.


Education & Development

May 1999

University of Maryland, College Park

Bachelor of Arts, Language, Writing and Rhetoric

May 2005

Cooper Design Agency

Interaction Design Practicum

March 2019

Monique Breault

Executive Coaching


Speaking

2017 UXPin Enterprise UX Virtual Summit Designing Meaningful Data Products
2013 Euro IA — Edinburgh Data, Behavior & Privacy
2013 Portland Redux / IxDA Toronto Data Design & Ingenuity, Panelist
2013 Jiveworld — Las Vegas Design at Jive
2012 Jiveworld — Las Vegas Building Great User Experiences
2010 Jiveworld — San Francisco Jive Apps Design Patterns

Ready to build something great?

I partner with B2B SaaS teams to create experiences that users love and that move business metrics. Let's talk about what we can build together.