About Me

Throughout my career it's been my privilege to help organizations and teams bring exciting new ideas, research, and processes to life through interaction design and data communication.

With writing, presentation, sketches, prototypes, well-timed GIFs, and more - I work hard to make sure colleagues and clients alike feel encouraged to dive head first into the group effort of design. After all, "creative" is not a job title - it's what happens when we all feel included, supported, and safe to play with possibilities.

I believe a great design environment should feel like a science classroom in the best way possible - fascinating, unpredictable, a little scary, and with an ever-present possibility that something might catch fire and explode in a brilliant cloud.

My Experience

I pursue projects and roles that exist where visual branding and data visualization overlap.

Data, Collaboration, & Strategy

More recently I've pursued design roles that explore the connection between visual design & strategy, specifically the ways designers interact with engineers and product leadership.

Information & Visualization

Around the middle stage of my career, I started seeking roles with a focus on communicating information & data in the context of organizational brand expression.

Brand Development

I started my career with roles focused on helping organizations communicate their values & missions through visual communication.

Independent

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Senior Visual Designer

October 2023 - Present

I work with a collection of inspiring clients on data-related projects, always with a dash of visual branding.

Syntellis

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Senior Visual Designer

March 2021 - September 2023

I helped build a strategy for integrating data visualization into a large-scale financial planning application.

Kinsa Health

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Data Product Designer

May 2020 - January 2021

I helped design a news source for contagious illnesses that visualized data from app-connected thermometers.

Stamen (Contract)

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Visual Designer

March 2019 - May 2020

I led visual design processes for a wide variety of clients to create interfaces and explore visual branding.

Social Driver

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Senior Visual Designer

May 2015 - March 2019

I developed visual brands for a diverse range of socially conscious clients and translated those brands to the web.

Periscopic

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Visual Designer

June 2012 - March 2015

I designed & illustrated data visualization projects for clients in the scientific, environmental, and political sectors.

Other Interests

Outside of work I'm a performing musician specializing in the traditional acoustic music of Ireland and Scotland, and I also explore the beautiful Pacific Northwest by foot and bike.

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