15+ years designing complex B2B SaaS products for technical audiences — including data protection, security, and IT operations. I work AI-first from strategy through execution. I’ve shipped products as a sole designer and build design systems that hold up at scale. Grounded in both visual design and front-end development.
Seattle, WA · Part-time, 06/2025 – Present
- Designed an AI-focused SaaS platform for MSPs from scratch — product vision, brand identity, core UX flows, and a coded front end. Built the component library and design system in v0, iterating in Claude Code.
- Validated product direction through partner research with an MSP; currently advising on strategy and design as the platform iterates.
Seattle, WA · Remote, 09/2024 – 02/2026
- Designed and shipped the SaaS Security MVP in 9 months — providing IT professionals with security monitoring and automated compliance reporting across customer Microsoft 365 tenants.
- Led the Microsoft Partner Center integration with AI-assisted multi-tenant mapping — the platform’s first, shipped on time. Its tenant data seeded a new Microsoft Defender product, and that team brought me in to guide UX and technical direction.
- Replaced static documentation with a conversational AI interface designed for partners managing security without a dedicated specialist.
Seattle, WA, 10/2015 – 09/2024
- Founding designer at SkyKick — designed the brand from the ground up and shipped three products from 0-to-1, reaching $50M ARR and 3.5M+ active end-user licenses before acquisition.
- Grew and managed a small UX design team — designers, researcher, and engineer — before returning to IC work as sole Principal Designer.
- Led the Cloud Backup redesign — Microsoft 365 data protection and recovery for IT partners’ customers. The product grew to 200,000+ active orders across 5,400 partners. 86% gross / 108% net retention.
- Built a cross-product design system unifying three IT service products — 80% engineering-org reach; established a user research practice including hiring, tooling, and usability studies.
- Redesigned Cloud Migration, reducing support tickets by 47% and increasing migration projects by 53%.
Seattle, WA, 09/2003 – 10/2015
- Founded and ran Swivel Studio for 12 years — delivering brand identity and websites for tech startups, architecture firms, and boutique clients across design and front-end development.
Design: User Experience (UX) Design, UI Design, Design Systems, Code Prototyping, Accessibility (WCAG)
Tools: Figma, Figma Make, Claude Code, v0, VS Code, HTML/CSS/JS, React, Next.js, GitHub