For as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to health and nutrition - curious about how the choices we make every day shape how we feel, function, and live.
I'm currently training as a Health & Wellness Coach through the Mayo Clinic NBHWC program, with a focus on helping people build sustainable, balanced approaches to health and make meaningful progress toward their wellness goals. My interest in this work is both personal and professional - I've seen how chronic conditions impact quality of life, and how difficult lasting change can be without the right support.
My path has also been shaped by my career in user experience and product leadership, where I spent years understanding how people think, make decisions, and navigate complex systems. Today, I bring that same human-centered approach to wellbeing, supporting behavior change across nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress recovery using evidence-based techniques such as motivational interviewing and principles of lifestyle medicine.
I’m especially interested in helping people set realistic goals and build momentum through sustainable habits and steady progress, without extremes or feeling overwhelmed.
I love empowering teams with feedback, data, tools, and activities to help make strategic decisions and impactful designs. As an individual contributor at heart, I love talking directly with individuals, and enjoy digging into complex challenges, and collaborating on creative solutions or just being a sounding board for ideas. I encourage designers to have the autonomy to find the working styles that align best with their teams.
Using agile software development principles, I promote thoughtful experimentation to fail fast while reducing risk, in order to iterate towards the best possible experience.
Having played sports most of my life, I'm a team player and get excited to celebrate our team's successes as well as our failures and what we've learned. Lastly, while I like to work hard, I also believe in having fun at work, flexibility, work-life balance, and avoiding burnout in order to be our best selves.
Product design & development are my passion. I love the collaboration and strategy behind designing valuable products and experiences that are intuitive and delightful.
Over the years, I've been involved with user experience, customer experience, and interaction design in many ways. In my current role, I'm focused on agile, lean UX design for private market solutions, evangelizing for sophisticated users and complex workflows. Previously, I held roles that involved building GP and investor flows, optimizing property management and resident software, restaurant experiences, school nutrition programs, point of sale interfaces, online shopping comparison tools, recommendation engines, in-store displays, online ordering flows, and instructional & educational content.
I'm an experienced leader that enjoys collaborating with and presenting to teams, customers, colleagues, and executives. I'm also very comfortable wearing different hats (Front End Developer, UX Researcher, Product Manager, Visual Designer, Account Manager, Solutions Engineer, Team Facilitator, etc.). I like being hands on, and get excited to make an impact in any way I can.