Eight years across UI/UX and product, six in healthcare, and now Director of Product in hospitality AI.

I started in UI/UX in 2016. The first few years were spent designing apps and brand systems across Saginaw and Lansing, and then in San Francisco Bay Area startups. Those early projects were where I learned the visual craft — typography, layout, iconography, design systems — that still shows up in everything I work on now.

The healthcare years gave me the operational discipline. Six years across SF Bay Area and San Diego healthcare — Remedly's EHR rebuild as the only designer in the company; CliniComp on enterprise EHR, where I led the design team's transition to Figma and partnered with clinical SMEs on workflow rebuilds; Vault Health on the decentralized-trial practitioner platform; and Science 37, where I led design on Visit Operations Platform, the scheduling system that coordinates 330 mobile clinicians across decentralized clinical trials ($1.7–3.2M/yr modeled scheduler-side capacity reclaim). Healthcare teaches you that design decisions are clinical decisions, that license safety can't be a warning, and that customers will tolerate ugly software as long as it's fast and trustworthy.

The transition into product came naturally. Every design decision is also a product decision — what to ship, what to defer, what to deprecate. I wanted ownership of both sides, and the move from senior product designer to product manager and then to director was a function of running out of design problems that weren't really product problems underneath.

Today I'm Director of Product at Lycia AI in San Diego, where I shipped the company's autonomous guest agent end-to-end and now lead the strategy for the next expansion: an AI-native PMS for the long tail of independent hotels currently underserved by the existing tech stack. The work is product strategy, customer-development math, vertical pricing experiments, and a fair amount of typography — because I still pick the font myself.