About me

Designer, immigrant, parent, leader.

tl;dr

I'm an American product designer living in the Netherlands since 2018. Currently helping lead design and applied AI at Personio.

Background

My path to design started in journalism school. I have always been drawn to communication studies — finding the essence of complicated ideas and trying to express them clearly. At the Newhouse School I realized I could do that by designing interfaces as much as by writing stories. Then a very lucky break interning at Tripadvisor turned into a full time role, where I ended up designing the travel site's iOS, Android, and Apple TV apps.

In the 12 years since then I've built products across wildly different contexts: from designing calls for over a billion Facebook Messenger users; to being the sole designer behind Smartify's award-winning museum app; to growing the product design org at WeTransfer through scale and exit; to now helping lead design and applied AI at Personio, a people platform for European SMEs.

All of this started in the U.S. — then I decided to move to Amsterdam with my partner in 2018. We were drawn to the vibrant international culture in Amsterdam and, more broadly, the way the Netherlands seemed to have figured out how to design a society around the needs of its people. That move turned out to be as formative as any job I've had — and it has changed how I design and lead.

Off screen, you can find me in a village near Amsterdam, raising a kid and slowly figuring out how to speak some Dutch.

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