Thornburg Investment Management — Santa Fe, NM

• Lead senior designer overseeing end-to-end design of digital products including landing pages, interactive web experiences, UI/UX, data visualizations, animations, and design system components.
• Researched, designed, and maintain the firm's first comprehensive design system and design principles — establishing visual quality standards, brand consistency, and reusable component libraries across teams.
• Collaborated closely with developers to prototype and ship an XML data replacement application for dynamic marketing documents, improving production accuracy and speed.
• Introduced a creative brief process adopted across the marketing department, improving cross-functional transparency and stakeholder alignment.

Cartifact — Los Angeles, CA

• Served as product design consultant for mobile basemap products at major technology companies including Apple — defining cartographic design specifications, interactions, animations, camera behavior, typography, color palettes, and iconography across multiple map scales, views, and display modes.
• Partnered directly with developers, UX designers, visual designers, and 3D illustrators to prototype, test, and iterate on map product features, including user research and rapid concept iteration.
• Developed cartographic design systems: style libraries, pattern libraries, symbol libraries, and custom tools for labeling and topographic feature display.
• Managed a team of cartographers and designers handling production of custom maps, map systems, brochures, and posters for commercial real estate, technology, government, non-profit, and educational clients.

Herbert Wise, Photographer — Los Angeles, CA

• Built a comprehensive digital archive of photographs and prepared layouts and presentations for exhibitions, a book, marketing materials, and websites.

• Systematic Thinker — Career built around finding systematic visual solutions to complex problems: translating spatial, financial, and environmental data into clear, beautiful maps, interfaces, and experiences.
• Human-Centered — Designs with an empathy-first approach, consistently close to customer and user needs through research and collaboration.
• Continuous Learner — Deeply committed to hands-on learning, staying current with emerging tools and techniques, and assimilating new domains into design practice.
• Mentor — Experienced in communicating design rationale and developing colleagues. As physicist Richard Feynman observed, teaching is the surest path to mastery.