As a Senior Design Manager and Principal UX Designer at Amazon, I spent 11+ years driving innovation across payments, product discovery, search, quick ordering, and vendor management tools. Most recently, I led a team of 6 designers building the Unified Payments Experience, a scalable design system that ensured consistency across Amazon's global payments platform.
Earlier in my time at Amazon, I led design for product discovery experiences in the Home Innovation Team, creating AI-driven visual shopping tools that enabled customers to explore and shop lifestyle images. This work earned me two US patents and generated engagement from over 216K customers in the first month. I also created a comprehensive vision for furniture shopping that established the foundation for 12 new feature initiatives and influenced Amazon's search experience across multiple categories.
Beyond shipping products, I'm passionate about building design culture. I co-founded and facilitated "Drawing After Dark," Amazon's longest-running Design Community meetup, regularly bringing together 80-120 participants. I previously created a similar program at Microsoft called "Stay Late and Draw." I mentored designers to promotion, championed accessibility standards, and contributed to hiring the next generation of design talent across Amazon.
Before Amazon, I spent six years at Microsoft designing experiences for 85 million monthly users, including the Microsoft support portal and MSDN homepage. I also worked at Boeing, creating interactive learning tools for 787 project engineers.
I received my BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, where I focused on painting, drawing, and animation. My sketches and paintings range from dreamy portraits to logic-bending shape stacks, with an electric color palette and glossy, layered textures.