Directs XD team efforts in user experience activities including ideation and collaboration with business partners, customer research, facilitating design sprints and workshops, design prototyping, content development and user testing of design solutions.Supports vision leadership, design training, team career growth.Supports sales efforts, oversees company branding, supports marketing initiatives.Leads UX efforts on client projects, consulting on product strategy, collaborating with functional teams and development teams, and delivering design assets.

Working with the team at Allata to reinvent and rebuild an enterprise software platform for an HOA property management services company. My responsibilities include UX research and discovery, leading design sprints and UX efforts, creating a design system, and providing all UI resources to the team.

For nearly 15 years, I built my career by running my own design studio. I crafted digital experiences people love—spanning digital marketing, e-commerce, mobile, and enterprise products. My initial passion for designing elegant, intuitive solutions during the social media and mobile boom evolved into a deep enthusiasm for UX research, lean methodology, and cross-functional collaboration.

Working on the concept team at Medtronic under the Connectivity & Insights - Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure division. The concept team is an externally-focused and adaptive structure that gives organizations agility and flexibility in dealing with changing circumstances. My primary responsibilities include creating direction for UX initiatives, developing user stories, wireframing UX workflows, and designing hi-fidelity prototypes. Our small team works together though the processes of discovery, scope planning, and execution of products and applications. I also serve the team as a user advocate throughout the discovery, design, & development process. Our team actively defines and conducts research studies and works to validate hypotheses with users, customers, product managers, engineers, marketers and designers. We conduct usability studies, using a variety of methods but ultimately using the best method given the circumstance.

I helped plant a church in Abilene, TX, primarily serving as Worship Pastor. I led worship at Sunday gatherings, coordinated A/V set-up and tear-down activities, led the worship and A/V teams, and planned church services with the lead pastor.As a co-founder, I was part of the core team for the church, contributing towards strategy, communication, and vision.