About

For 15 years I’ve helped institutions make complex ideas clear, engaging, and accessible. I work across strategy, design, and front-end development. I’m at my best on projects where trust matters as much as craft.
Visual design is my background, and I've worked outward from there into strategy and front-end development. Much of that work happens inside large groups with many stakeholders, where the job is as much about keeping people aligned and work moving as it is about the design itself.
I’m drawn to long-term relationships and to projects that have to hold up for years, not just at launch. I care about accessibility, sensible structure, and handing clients something their own team can maintain without me.
Capabilities
— Strategy
- Content and site audits
- Stakeholder workshops and interviews
- Information architecture
— Design
- Interface design
- Brand systems
- Print and reports
- Illustration
— Development
- Front-end: HTML, CSS, JS
- WordPress and Drupal
- Static site generators
- WCAG compliance
- Building for maintainability
Experience
— Employment
- Since 2011 Sandbox Studio Senior Designer and Strategist
- 2008 – 2011 Freelance Design
— Education
- Bachelor of Fine Arts The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
— Recognition
- 2012 Chicago Design Archive Inductee