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Welcome to My Portfolio

I am a product designer focused on creating clarity, efficiency, and measurable impact within complex systems. My work experience centers on identifying gaps, improving processes, and designing scalable solutions that elevate both the user experience and internal team performance. I bring structure to ambiguity, grounding decisions in research, simplifying workflows, and delivering products that are intuitive, consistent, and sustainable.

Across my roles, I have added value to products by strengthening product development pipelines, introducing user-centered practices to low-maturity environments, and transforming repeated client needs into a sellable product offering. Whether refining core workflows or developing new solutions from the ground up, I aim to deliver work that is thoughtful, scalable, and aligned with real-world constraints. My process ultimately drives better outcomes for users, clients, and teams.

Case Studies

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Identified and Built a New Product

For over a year, I consulted with utility clients to design public outreach sites. I noticed that every project used similar content, information architectures, and page structures, yet each required months of meetings and content gathering. This created delays for clients and inefficiencies for our internal team.

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Lead Designer on leadCAST

leadCAST is a software to help utilities inventory, sample, and replace private and utility side pipes for lead. I worked with customers from large metropolitan areas like New York City and Houston to small towns all across the country. 

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IDOT Bike Facility Database

Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) manages thousands of bike trails, lanes, and roadway features statewide but had no centralized system to store or access this data. Missing or outdated information caused construction delays, inaccurate budgets, and confusion between departments.

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Dam and Levee Risk Database Redesign

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) maintains structural and risk data for every dam and levee in the United States. Their legacy software built in the 1990s had become unusable, forcing engineers to rely on spreadsheets and offline workarounds. 

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