About

I’m a UX designer, product designer, photographer and musician living in the beautiful Midwest USA. I love to travel, camp, and explore new food whenever I can.

While I only do a couple of those things for money, they all play a huge part in how I see and interact with the world around me.

work Experience

July 2022 - May 2024 // Indeed

Senior UX Designer

  • Spearheaded the design and user experience strategy for the Trust and Safety team focusing on authentication, user profiles, and account security features for 350+ million unique monthly visitors.

  • Worked cross-functionally and with multiple stakeholders to develop a strategy to move users away from passwords towards more secure and convenient authentication methods.

  • Converted 300 million users to passwordless-first accounts.

  • Participated in the Indeed Mentors program to mentor current and prospective designers.

  • Increased passwordless login from 71% to 93%, and sign-in success rate using passwordless methods to over 90%.

  • Led design and release of passkey with >90% sign-in success rate.

August 2019 - June 2022 // ActiveCampaign

Product Designer

  • Led continued research and iteration efforts for the Extensibility team, growing active app connections from 0 to over 100k.

  • Launched the App Studio, allowing third-party developers to build apps directly within ActiveCampaign, leading to 2x growth in user-created apps.

  • Unified apps with a custom object data model to provide enhanced app functionality and flexibility.

  • Designed and launched the ActiveCampaign App Ecosystem leading to a 30% retention rate increase for users with an app connected.

October 2017 - June 2019 // Emplify

UX/UI Designer

June 2016 - October 2017 // Angie's List

Interaction Designer

Education

2014 - 2016 // MS Human Computer Interaction

Indiana University Bloomington

Intensive study of the theory and practice of HCI and UX design. Taught an undergraduate introduction to HCI/UX as a TA.