Current role

At GoodLeap, I help contractors make energy-efficient and sustainable home upgrades more accessible by simplifying how they collect and manage payments across an expanding suite of financial products.

  • Led discovery research that informed the strategic direction of new financing products.

  • Shipped payment schedules and agentic invoice reminders across desktop web and mobile, while sustaining world-class NPS across platforms.

  • Integrated AI-driven workflows into discovery, research synthesis, and rapid prototyping to increase team velocity and delivery confidence.

GoodLeap

Senior User Experience Designer

February 2025 – present

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Experience

ParentSquare (formerly Remind)

Product Designer to Senior Product Designer
June 2021 – January 2025

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At Remind, I helped scale personalized virtual tutoring as a new line of business, delivering several zero-to-one features, and growing the product through experimentation. After ParentSquare acquired Remind in December 2023, I collaborated with new teammates to shape the combined school-communications experience.

  • Co-led product vision and principles to inform Remind Tutoring product direction.

  • Designed a strategic school- and district-facing offering, and refined the direct-to-consumer sign-up funnel, contributing an estimated $300K in ARR.

  • Streamlined sign-in experiences, and established a more scalable and consistent design system and information architecture.

Clever

Product Designer
March 2018 – January 2021

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At Clever, I led design for a new team where I worked across educators, administrators, and application partners to find new revenue and product opportunities.

  • Redesigned the school admin experience, doubling the feature offering and increasing monthly active users 60%, from 22K to 35K.

  • Designed the Clever Library from scratch; it grew to serve more than 10% of U.S. teachers and expanded more than 3.5x year over year.

  • Increased Clever App Store lead-generation from 0.3% to 2.4% through rapid experimentation cycles.

WalmartLabs

User Experience Designer
May 2013 – July 2017

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At WalmartLabs, I designed customer experiences across Walmart's general merchandise, pickup, checkout, and grocery products across native mobile and responsive web platforms.

  • Led the end-to-end design of in-store Pickup experience across iOS and Android apps, supporting new store formats and enabling native app capabilities.

  • Designed Walmart Pay's iOS and Android payment-drawer interface, helping acquire more than 1 million unique users and earning U.S. design patent D820,850.

  • Explored and tested checkout and fulfillment concepts for Walmart Grocery.

Independent work

Alongside full-time roles, I have taken on select independent projects in product design, interaction design, web, and visual design. Earlier roles also include design work with Good&Co Labs, Opionato, James Free Jewelers, and Zoo Games.


Education

Miami University

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Graphic Design & Interactive Media

Oxford, OH • 2005 – 2009

Skills

Design

Product strategy • Interaction design • Information architecture • Design systems • Visual design • User research • Prototyping • Experimentation • AI-enabled design workflows

Tools

Figma • FigJam • Figma Make • Claude • ChatGPT • Codex