Cirriculum Vitae
Software Product Designer specializing in enterprise-scale experiences for small-to-medium-sized businesses and operational tooling for security and productivity platforms. Proven record of delivering scalable solutions that improve user experiences and drive business impact.
Professional Experience
Senior Product Designer
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington
September 2021 - May 2025
Led design efforts for Microsoft partner and business customer product solutions, including Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft 365 security center, and Microsoft Defender.
Increased the digital security of solution providers and their customers by designing permission management experiences that drove security best practice adoption while shrinking attack surfaces, resulting in an 18% decrease in high-privileged role assignments.
Reduced deployment planning time for service providers by 3–6 weeks through the design of service deployment plan features.
Reduced permission-related support tickets by 25% by improving the discoverability, visibility, and access to user permission assignments.
Increased service provider productivity and active user retention by 8% through the design of novel filter and tagging features.
Created the first official icon for Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, resulting in a 41% increase in user traffic and an 18% increase in new accounts.
Developed and maintained product-specific Figma toolkits, establishing inclusive contribution workflows that streamlined team collaboration.
Led a team of 3 designers, driving timely delivery of key Lighthouse features.
Mentored junior designers, resulting in 1 mentee promotion to Senior.
Created a Figma plugin used by 200+ designers, accelerating feature design production throughout the Microsoft design community.
Product Designer
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington
March 2015 - September 2021
Drove UX for Microsoft Partner Center, designing experiences across partner onboarding, benefits access, incentive payouts, competency management, and managed customer service health tracking.
Increased monthly new business referrals for partners by 17,900%.
Streamlined partner onboarding flows, reducing completion time by 22%.
Product Designer (Contract)
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington
Led design efforts for partner publishing and referral management experiences for Microsoft Pinpoint, providing Microsoft partners with a means to market themselves and acquire new customer leads to grow their business.
Accelerated the production of visual product assets for the Microsoft Store website by engineering a Photoshop plugin that automated the production source asset variants for different page layouts.
Led design efforts for Microsoft-internal software product offer management tools to help commerce and sales teams remain competitive in an increasingly dynamic market.
Designer
CoCo Communications, Seattle, Washington
Led UI design design efforts for CoCo Communicator, the company’s flagship software product for web and mobile.
Created and managed the company’s visual brand and marketing assets, including presentations, white papers, and the public-facing company website.
Produced technical illustrations, data visualizations, and photography for a variety of prototypical hardware and software products.
Freelance Design, Illustration, and Web Development
Seattle, Washington
Designed and produced over 200 event posters for local businesses.
Designed, set up, and managed public-facing promotional websites for a variety of business clients.
Created a virtual newsstand web app for managing magazine and periodical titles and availability for a clients’ WordPress site using PHP and MySQL.
Designed and produced advertisements for print, web, and moving trucks.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington
Studying design fundamentals, drawing, painting, cartooning, book binding, printing, sculpture, creative writing, photography, and videography.
Founding Editor of Birds & Whistles, a semi-annual publication featuring the art, design, music, and writing of students, faculty, and alumni. Production of the magazine eventually integrated into Humanities and Design Department curriculums as editorial and production courses.