About me

Experience

• Principal Product Designer at Paylocity

  2022–Present (Remote)

  At the end of 2022 I became Paylocity’s first Principal Product Designer on a team of over 30 designers. Right now I’m responsible the platform-wide design and implementation of AI features at Paylocity.

• Product Design Lead at Paylocity

  2021–2022 (Remote)

  This was a design leadership role that involved defining and implementing design strategy across spanned multiple product verticals.

• Senior Product Designer at Paylocity

  2016–2020 (Remote)

  I helped scale Paylocity’s Community product from 20k MAU to over 1M MAU during the pandemic and established a team-wide design critique practice.

• Interaction Designer at Vokal

  2014–2016 (Chicago, IL)

  Vokal is a boutique digital agency in Chicago that specialized in multi-platform design solutions, particularly involving native mobile apps. I got to work on a lot of different projects, but was also at the forefront of the design systems boom because most of my projects involved creating UI systems that could scale to multiple platforms.

• User Experience Designer at Maddock Douglas

  2011–2014 (Elmhurst, IL)

  I cut my teeth working at Maddock Douglas, a digital agency in Elmhurst, IL that specialized in helping clients in staid industries evolve their digital presence. I got to work on a lot of different projects with experienced and inspiring storytellers. At MD I was able to do a little of everything and find my níche in product design, while learning from storytelling experts.