EXPERIENCE

Kroger Technology & Digital  |  Cincinnati, OH
Senior Product Designer
Nov 2022 - Present

• Leads strategic design initiatives spanning enterprise merchandising products, including user research, discovery, prototyping, and concept testing. 
• Collaborates with Product Managers, Engineers & Developers, business experts, and users; surfacing critical insights, building alignment, and driving decisions that influence roadmaps and product strategies. 
• Plans and facilitates team workshops, instructs cohorts of LUMA Practitioner Training as a Certified LUMA Instructor.

Product Designer
May 2021 - Nov 2022

• Designs meaningful user experiences through web-app solutions for Kroger Merchandising associates.
  
• Streamlines legacy systems with complex item, cost, and pricing data.
  
• Works with a product team with Agile and Human-Centered Design methodologies.
  

Bally Design  |  Pittsburgh, PA
Senior Designer
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Created digital user experiences with a focus on usability, business strategy, and high quality product interactions. Managed projects and client relationships; facilitated design workshops; conceptualized, refined and presented concepts; delivered comprehensive solutions; created and managed the company's internship program.

User Interface Designer
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Developed user interfaces by gathering user insights, creating experience maps and screen flows, wireframing, establishing visual design patterns, and documenting solutions with design style guidelines.

Industrial Designer
Jun 2014 - Dec 2018
Designed products ranging from housewares to medical, safety, and commercial industries. Conducted research, sketching and ideation, prototyping, ergonomic evaluations, design refinement, CAD for manufacturing, and design strategy.

EDUCATION

University of Cincinnati, DAAP
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Design
Class of 2014, magna cum laude

CERTIFICATIONS

• Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics | IBM, 2025
  
• Persuading Others | Harvard Business Impact Enterprise, 2025

• LUMA Instructor | The LUMA Institute, 2024
• LUMA Facilitator | The LUMA Institute, 2023
• LUMA Practitioner | The LUMA Institute, 2023
• Connected Leadership | Coursera, 2023
• Agile Meets Design Thinking | Coursera, 2023

• UX Certified with a specialty in UX Management | Nielsen Norman Group, 2022

• IxDF Interaction Design for Usability | Interaction Design Foundation, 2018