About me

I’m a UX Leader who has been building a team and driving product design strategy at Bose for the last 4 years. I lead teams, can draw out the voice of the customer, care a lot about culture, and can roll up my sleeves and design as well.

I believe in fuzzy lines.

While everyone on a multi-disciplinary team has a role with specific responsibility, the best collaborators contribute through these boundaries and understand everyone on the team. By having engineers in brainstorm sessions and product or support in design reviews everyone can actively participate in the design process and we strengthen the design and the team’s relationships.

I love helping multi-disciplinary teams work together better.

How we work stretches beyond just the UX team in so many directions and how we function is super important to the success of the products we are building. At Placester, I was part of a leadership team that took our product delivery group from waterfall with no process to implementing scrum methodology - loosely following Spotify's framework. Making handoffs more efficient, using the right tools to document design which makes life easier for the folks we interact with, involving those that use our artifacts in the decisions we make and having an upbeat positive attitude are some of the ways I do this.