Résumé

20+ years designing and building SaaS products, with a focus on design systems.

Recent Experience

One North

Jul 2026 – Present

Architecting the token system for Nova, Spectrum's design system, built to be machine-readable and AI-friendly.

Google

Oct 2024 – May 2026

Built an AI tool that writes guidelines and accessibility specs for 70+ components, taking documentation coverage from 15% to 100% and halving per-release documentation time.
Defined the component patterns and theming guidelines Google Wallet now uses across the product, as part of its Material 3 to Material 3 Expressive migration.
Built and documented Google Wallet's Figma component library, used daily by 30+ designers.

Pluto TV

Aug 2023 – Sep 2024

Refactored the Nitro Design System across 6 platforms (web, iOS, Android, tvOS, Roku, Smart TV), cutting redundant design work by 30%.
Built a W3C/DTCG-aligned design token system: one source of truth for design and code on all 6 platforms.
Ran design token workshops for 50+ designers and engineers; 2 teams adopted the token system as a result.

Cisco

May 2023 – Sep 2023

Designed, built, and documented a production navigation component for the Magnetic Design System, adopted by 3 product teams.

City National Bank

Nov 2022 – Mar 2023

Led a WCAG 2.1 AA color system redesign, clearing accessibility debt across 15+ applications.

First American

Mar 2021 – Nov 2022

Grew an unmanaged design system into Ignite, a Figma library backed by Angular production code and Storybook, now the company standard for design-to-code handoff.
Designed a color system with algorithmically generated accessible pairings, expanding the palette from 8 to 40+ hues at WCAG 2.1 AA.
Built Style Dictionary token infrastructure, then automated component packaging and versioning to cut release cycles from hours to minutes.

Boulevard

Sep 2019 – Feb 2021

Founded BLVD UI, Boulevard's first design system, and set the product org's design and engineering standards.