Michelin-trained instincts. UX that shows it.

I came to UX through hospitality, art education, and two decades of figuring out what people actually need, not what they say they need. I've been a mixologist at Michelin-starred restaurants, a printmaking and sculpture teacher from kindergarten through college, and a snowboard and ski coach. The common thread was always the same: bringing out the best in people and making their lives a little better.

That instinct is what drew me to UX, and it's what's shaped three years at Arity, moving between two distinct worlds: B2B platform tooling, then consumer app migrations at scale, including a full data solutions app built and shipped in under six months. The work is technical. The goal is always human: helping people trust complex information without drowning in it.

When AI tooling matured, my instinct was infrastructural.

Rapid concept iteration for alignment across product, engineering, and leadership. Custom agents for Jira automation and UX QA. A Cursor onboarding guide two thirds of the org adopted. Two marketing writers turned into power users in under an hour.

Not theatre, leverage you can audit.

Outside enterprise work, a long-running collaboration with a small analog brand keeps everything grounded, where UX blurs into documentation, photography, SEO, and showing up in person.

Based in Portland, Maine. Looking for senior or lead roles where quiet craft, cross-functional fluency, and calm delivery under pressure actually matter.