Resume

12+ years merging design, technology, and storytelling to create human-centered experiences.

Sublime Security
Tenable
JupiterOne
Signal Sciences
Fastly
American Express
Leo Burnett
Unknown Arts
Sublime Security
Tenable
JupiterOne
Signal Sciences
Fastly
American Express
Leo Burnett
Unknown Arts

The Bullet Points

Philosophy Meets Political Communications

Studied political science at Davidson College focusing on philosophy, communications, and media impact.

Strategic Foundation

Started my career as a strategist at Leo Burnett, crafting brand narratives for major clients.

Transition to Tech

Shifted my focus to technology and code, bridging strategic thinking with technical expertise.

Technical Product Design Specialist

Began as a design engineer at American Express. Grew to lead product design at high-growth enterprise startups. Designed complex software products like cybersecurity platforms.

Empowering Creators in AI

Created Unknown Arts, a newsletter for creative builders exploring AI design and the creative frontier. Also organized events fostering community connection and growth.

Product Design

Current

Sublime Security

Product Designer

  • Joined as the first product designer in March 2025. Now a senior staff IC on a 5-person product design team.

2022–2023

JupiterOne

Principal Product Designer

  • Designed a query interface that reduced new user time-to-value from 21 days to 1 day.
  • Drove creation and adoption of a new design system across enterprise security platform.
  • Informed product roadmap through cross-functional collaboration and design leadership.

2019–2021

Signal Sciences

Senior Product Designer

  • Designed features for enterprise firewall rules management, rate limiting, and bot defense.
  • Facilitated strong design, dev, and PM collaboration via workshops, systems diagramming, storyboarding, prototyping, and presentations.

2017–2018

Tenable

Product Designer

  • Designed enterprise SaaS features to improve Tenable’s cyber risk platform: dashboard creation & management, data visualization templates, & team credential management.

2013–2016

American Express

Design Engineer

  • Built UI for a multi-brand platform used by Amex, Walmart, and Target.
  • Led prototyping in code to design flexible and robust responsive web UX

Writing & Community

2022–Present

Unknown Arts

Founder & Writer

  • Created a newsletter on tech, creativity, and AI, growing to 7,000+ subscribers and ~40% open rate.
  • Featured in top industry publications, reaching a global audience across 128 countries.
  • Organized events fostering community connection and growth.

Brand

2012–2013

Leo Burnett

Brand Strategist

  • Developed brand strategies using consumer research and cultural insights, creating high impact communications for clients like Allstate, MillerCoors, and Sprint.