My resume

Resume

Kong

Jan 2026 β€” Aug 2026

Director of Product Design

Remote

Led the Applications design organization, overseeing Konnect Developer Portal, Insomnia, API client and CLI experiences, AI initiatives, and hands-on design for a small number of strategic design projects.

Owned Kong's design system, redefining the design language, tokens, and workflows to improve consistency, scalability, and team velocity.

Led the enablement of an AI-first design workflow using an internal prototyping platform connecting Figma, the coded design system, and front-end repositories, dramatically accelerating concept-to-prototype speed.

Managed and mentored four product designers, providing coaching, career development, and design leadership.

Nov 2024 β€” Jan 2026

Principal Product Designer β€” Team lead

Remote

Led design efforts for the Konnect Developer Portal, a 0-1 platform enabling organizations to securely publish and govern APIs for partners, customers, and developers.

Led enterprise customer research and AI-powered prototyping to validate my designs and product direction to accelerate high-confidence decision making.

Defined a cross-product UX vision for Konnect, aligning workflows, navigation, and design patterns across the platform.

Helped drive $3M in ARR within nine months of Dev Portal launch in 2025, with the product on track to generate $9M ARR in 2026.

Contentful

Jul 2023 β€” Nov 2024

Principal Product Designer β€” Contentful Studio

Denver, CO

Leading product design for Contentful Studio, a 0-1, net-new product targeting marketers and designers. Contentful Studio launched in spring of 2024.

Contentful Studio is a visual website builder that harnesses the power of Contentful's headless CMS, while enabling marketers to directly design and publish digital experiences to launch new campaigns, experiments, and other digital marketing initiatives.

Twilio

Feb 2022 β€” Jul 2023

Sr. Manager of Product Design β€” Twilio Segment

Remote

Leading product design for Segment's CDP and Foundational Services teams. Responsible for overseeing design strategy for both brand new and existing products.

People manager and internal thought leader on design operations, advocate for strong user-centered design process, and capable mentor of PDs inside and outside of my org.

Jul 2021 β€” Feb 2022

Principal Product Designer β€” Segment Core

Remote

Coach and player, led design team for Segment integrations.

Refined the user-centered design process and brought in the voice of the customer to benchmark the usability of the core experience.

Led strategy for the successful redesign of the data mapping experience based on the customer insights from the benchmark.

Led initial design for a new zero-to-one product launching in the spring of 2023.

Jul 2020 β€” Jul 2021

Principal Product Designer β€” Twilio Voice

Remote

Led design and design strategy for Twilio Voice. Worked with business unit leaders and design leadership to grow the team from two to five dedicated product designers.

Led the successful design of the voice experience for Twilio Frontline, a native mobile app that powers customer communication for Frontline workers.

Led the user-centered design process where none existed previously and mentored product partners on research methodologies and product/design partnership best practices.

Led the program management process for design and was critique leader across multiple lines of business.

Dec 2019 β€” Jul 2020

Principal Product Designer β€” Twilio Messaging

Remote

Led design on Twilio's highest revenue product on a temporary basis to help turn design around.

Led the design of the Messaging Insights product, the redesign of the Messaging information architecture, and brought user-centered design best practices to the business unit where none had existed previously. My validation efforts were very successful and demonstrated the value of user-centered design through extremely positive customer feedback and increased customer satisfaction.

Successfully advocated to grow the product design headcount on Messaging three fold and hire a dedicated researcher.

Jun 2016 β€” Dec 2019

Principal Product Designer β€” Twilio Sendgrid

Denver, CO

Returned to IC work while my family was dealing with a health crisis.

Led the email design experience for Sendgrid’s marketing campaign product. Improved the product meaningfully through design thinking, visual design, and strong user-centered design practices.

Led Dynamic Templates feature validation effort in collaboration with my product partner. During validation we received signals of customer delight and saw customers increase their sending of emails through Dynamic Templates from hundreds of millions to over 6 billion unique emails per month.

Sendgrid was acquired by Twilio in 2019.

inPowered

Aug 2013 β€” Jun 2016

VP of Product Design

San Francisco, CA

Managed an in-house design agency team consisting of product and visual design focused on designing an ad platform and creating experiences for large custom media programs for brands such as Verizon, AT&T, Samsung, and Intel.

Co-led requirements and design for inPowered's ad platform in collaboration with inPowered's co-founders.

The success of the ad platform led to an increased investment in that product line, and the eventual sale of the entire display ad business to Ziff Davis Enterprise.

Aug 2010 β€” Aug 2013

Sr. Director of Design (Netshelter, rebranded as inPowered)

San Francisco, CA

Grew our in-house design agency from zero to 5 FTEs plus contractors.

Conceptualized and productized ad products and the customer facing ad platform.

Geeknet

Jul 2008 β€” Aug 2010

Sr. Director, Ad Products and Design

Mountain View, CA

Led a cross functional team of six direct reports consisting of design, product marketing, and analytics while reporting to the CMO.

Led an in-house creative agency to design for large brands such as Intel, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Rackspace, Toyota, Dell, HP, and many others.

Presented with the sales team directly to top tier ad agency clients and brands.

In close collaboration with sales leaders, drove ~$10MM in premium ad revenue from zero, within twelve months of starting.

Aug 2007 β€” Jul 2008

Product manager, SourceForge.net

Mountain View, CA

Product manager for wiki and other developer-facing tools on the SourceForge.net open source development platform.

Worked on design and product requirements for ad products. After significant success with the creation of a new and high performance ad product, I was promoted to Sr. Director with management responsibilities.

Jan 2006 β€” Aug 2007

Director of Product Development, SourceForge Enterprise

Fremont, CA

Stepped in to take over leadership responsibilities following the departure of the CTO.

Manager of managers and responsible for a total team size of 14 people, consisting of product, engineering, design, customer support, and QA.

Led the product team through an acquisition to Collabnet and then stayed on with the parent company as a product manager on another product, SourceForge.net.

Apr 2002 β€” Jan 2006

Sr. UX Designer, SourceForge Enterprise Edition

Fremont, CA

Joined the team at the onset of rebuilding SourceForge Enterprise Edition from the ground up.

Performed user research and created user personas to guide the creation of product features.

Created user flow diagrams, wireframes, HTML prototypes, and detailed designs for every feature.

Worked closely with industry-leading agile software coaches to introduce an agile UX design process that enabled design and engineering to work in parallel.

i2 Technologies

2000 β€” 2002

UX Designer

Mountain View, CA

Senior member of the UX design team and led the design of several of i2's applications.

Team lead for the division in a cross-company initiative in collaboration with Frog Design to implement a consistent style guide and interaction patterns across the company's 100+ web applications.

Led usability testing and usability inspection techniques to identify key usability issues for two i2 products.

Education

Education

BS, Business

William Jessup University, San Jose, CA