About me

Over the past 8+ years, I have been exploring the intersection of user experience design and software engineering through a medley of experiences in front-end development, interaction design, and software prototyping. Along my journey I’ve had the honor of participating in major product launches, experimenting with emerging technologies, and traveling the globe to help teams understand the diversity of our users and their needs.

Lately I’ve been focused on building design systems to help design and engineering teams communicate more effectively. Tactically, this work has taken the form of developing tools, introducing new processes, and building partnerships all alongside more traditional product-oriented prototyping.

While I value my career, I also like to unplug and spend my time with my family, play board games, watch football, listen to music, read books, or try making new recipes.

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Experiences

Nov 2023–Present

Staff User Experience Engineer

Geospatial products • Google LLC

Establishing best practices for geospatial design systems across user experience and engineering teams

May 2021–Oct 2023

Senior User Experience Engineer

Geospatial products • Google LLC

Developed a variety of processes, tools, and prototypes focused on helping teams understand, communicate, and solve complex front-end & design challenges

Oct 2018–May 2021

User Experience Engineer IV

Google Maps • Google LLC

Influenced product decisions and improved team processes on Google Maps by building tools to streamline internal processes and owning prototype creation from idea to external user testing

Jan 2017–Sep 2018

User Experience Engineer III

Google Meet • Google LLC

Partnered with researchers, designers, and software engineers on prototyping concepts, finessing UI implementations, improving upon UX tooling, and launching product

Sep 2015–Jan 2017

Front-End Software Engineer

Hangouts (Chat) • Google LLC

Developed user-facing features for Google Hangouts (Chat) across the web & Android platforms

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