About
Designer by profession.
Artist at heart.
I’m a creative design leader who has spent my career helping people make sense of complexity through brand, digital and physical experiences.
My path has never been one straight line.
I studied architecture and began my career designing exhibits and building models for trade shows and museum installations. That taught me to think about how people move through space, how a story unfolds, and how design can guide an experience.
As digital design emerged, I moved from physical environments into interactive work, helping create early web and commerce products before the rules were fully written. At Vanguard, that expanded into brand, UX, photography, design systems and creative leadership. Later roles at JPMorgan Chase, SEI and Broadridge added organizational design, operations, research and enterprise experience strategy.
The medium has changed many times. The thread has stayed consistent: understand the problem, find the idea that matters, and bring people together to make it real.
See the whole experience.
I’m comfortable moving between brand, UX, content, physical space and organizational systems. I look for the connections rather than treating them as separate problems.
Lead by listening first.
I believe strong creative leadership starts with understanding people: what motivates them, where they’re stuck, and what they need to do their best work.
Keep people at the center.
I use research, design thinking and emerging AI tools to move faster and explore more, while keeping human judgment and insight at the center of the work.
Beyond the work
Photography keeps me looking.
Photography has always been part of how I see. I’m drawn to black-and-white imagery, abstraction, form and light, often removing visual noise until the essential idea comes through.
I also teach digital photography as an adjunct professor, which has brought me back to something I’ve always valued in leadership: helping people build confidence, ask better questions and develop their own point of view.
Whether I’m working with a design team, photographing a landscape or teaching a class, I’m usually trying to do the same thing: bring clarity to complexity and help people see something differently.