About Me
With 15+ years in design, I’ve worked across enterprise systems, IOT industrial applications, and FinTech. Today, I lead designers across centralized enablement teams, promotions, and supply chain at Kroger, where much of my focus is on driving consistency in the products we build and advancing innovation in areas like AI and its ability to streamline processes.
Outside of work, I love spending time with my family and tracking down the best coffee the greater Cincinnati area has to offer. I also enjoy lending my illustration and graphic design skills to creating show posters and writing and performing my own music.
How I Work
Systems before screens
Get the shared layer right and the next hundred screens take care of themselves. One Sketch file at Kroger became infrastructure for 50+ product teams.
Governance before growth
A system with one author has a ceiling. I settle who decides, how contributions get in, and what the documentation owes the people building on it.
Adoption is the measure
A library nobody uses is a portfolio piece. I design for pull rather than mandate: make the supported path the fastest path and teams take it.
Prototype, then decide
It is usually quicker to build the thing than to debate it. Staying close to production keeps my standards honest and my estimates real.
Co-design beats handoff
The components I am proudest of were built with the engineers who own them, not thrown over a wall: web components at Kroger, D3 visualizations at GE.
Lead by unblocking
I manage nine designers across core enablement, promotions, and supply chain. The measure is not what my team ships, it is how much other teams ship without needing us.
Experience
KrogerCincinnati, OH
2018 – PresentSr. Product Design Manager
2022 – PresentI lead a multidisciplinary team of nine designers across core enablement, promotions, and supply chain, and set design system strategy for Kroger Merchandising, where the team serves 50+ product teams and drives $2M+ in annual efficiency.
I also direct design on Merch Hub, a platform consolidating 20 merchandising applications for 2,000+ internal users, and the modernization of 20-year-old legacy reporting into Power BI dashboards, now adopted by 800+ users.
Sr. Product Designer
2021 – 2022Product Designer
2020 – 2021UX Designer
2018 – 2020CoStrategixCincinnati, OH
2017 – 2018UI/UX Architect
- Built a mobile application for a clinical research sponsor, giving trial investigators on-demand access to study materials and protocol resources.
- Designed an end-to-end website for a specialty beverage company covering recipe discovery, product ordering, and responsive B2B and consumer layouts.
- Streamlined the design-to-development handoff, improving project efficiency and client relationships.
GESan Ramon, CA
2015 – 2017Sr. UI/UX Designer
- Designed a suite of atomic, reusable UI components for the Predix Cirrus Design System, used across multiple business functions.
- Launched the inaugural component documentation site, giving teams clear usage guidelines and speeding adoption.
- Ran weekly feedback workshops with designers to iterate on patterns as the system evolved.
- Co-designed and built advanced data visualization components with developers, using D3.js to make complex datasets readable.
Ubiquity Retirement + SavingsSan Francisco, CA
2012 – 2015Creative Director
2013 – 2015- Led the creation of a new brand identity spanning logo, guidelines, collateral, video, and email templates.
- Oversaw the marketing website redesign and kept it consistent with the client platform.
- Defined design strategy for partnerships and sales initiatives alongside executive leadership.
Designer / Web Developer
2012 – 2013- Maintained custom WordPress themes, handling both UX and front-end development.
- Designed and coded email templates, and managed sales lead workflows in Marketo.
Far-I-Rome ProductionsCincinnati, OH
2007 – 2012Creative Director
- Conceptualized and directed end-to-end visual identity for events ranging from concert series to multi-block street festivals, ensuring cohesive branding that elevated event visibility and attendee engagement.
- Crafted tailored WordPress websites for diverse clients, designing custom themes and templates, integrating essential plugins, and optimizing usability and performance to meet unique business needs.
- Partnered with local musicians to develop and execute holistic branding strategies, designing logos, digital assets, promotional collateral, and album artwork to create a unified brand experience across web, print, and social channels.