I am a graduate of Ferris State University with a Bachelors degree in graphic design, specializing in UX/UI. Currently, I’m a Senior Product Designer at JumpCloud, a SaaS company based in Denver, CO. I am the design lead for the cloud directory product line, which focuses on user lifecycle management. The main feature sets within my product line include:
- Provisioning and de-provisioning a user through many sources including manually, API access, and hundreds of 3rd party applications via SCIM protocols, pre-configured applications, and any app that supports a REST API.
- Granting user access to resources (computers, applications, wi-fi networks, etc) through attribute-based access control (ABAC)
- Scheduled event automation for provisioning and updating users and their attributes
- And more!
Today some of us are still fighting for a web that works for everyone. While others focus so much on mastering an ever-changing torrent of tools and frameworks that they risk forgetting that the purpose of design is to help people.
I have worked in many kinds of organizations with many different creative roles. Whether I’ve been a product designer, associate creative director, art director, freelancer, entrepreneur or co-founder, I’ve learned that every day brings a new challenge. And along with that, a chance to learn something new. I constantly reflect on things like:
- How could that feature have been better?
- Was the way I phrased that question leading?
- Should I have mountain biked the Whole Enchilada by myself?
- How could I have communicated my idea?
- How could I have handled myself better in that meeting?
- Did I really need to eat half a jar of Nutella for lunch?
Reflecting on things like this help to incrementally make me a better person and product designer—like iterating on a product over time.
Skills
Unofficial hats I’ve worn
- Product owner
- Product manager
- Scrum master
- Interaction designer
Tools
- Figma
- Sketch
- Abstract
- Invision
- Design systems
- Adobe CC
- Lucid Chart
- Omnigraffle
- Usertesting.com
- Hot Gloo
- HTML
- CSS
- Rally
- JIRA
- Trello/Asana
- Slack
- Telephone
- Pager
Investigation & Validate
- Interviews
- Focus groups
- Card sorting
- Qualitative and quantitative research
- User story mapping
- User workflows
- Rapid prototyping
- Low-fi designs
- High-fi designs
- Usability testing
Clients from a past life
Agency
- Library of Congress
- DTE Energy
- DFCU Financial
- HealthPlus of Michigan
- Fave Juice
- OSRAM
Self-managed/volunteer
- Nomsy
- Above the Treeline
- Oak Park Public Safety
- Michigan Mountain Biking Association
- Michigan Railroad Association
- Strength & Sweat LLC.