I believe that great design is a team effort, and I’ve been fortunate in my career to have been able to work through challenging projects with some amazing teams.
Recent Experience
2021 – 2023
Principal Product Designer, PathAI, Boston, MA
Led design efforts on clinical ML-enabled SaaS platforms, including diagnostics (AISightDx) and clinical trial services (CTS) products through in a highly collaborative product and engineering environment.
Modeled a rapid-cycle, iterative approach to concept generation and prototyping aimed at early testing with key stakeholders.
Identified and introduced short- and long-term design interventions to address clinical requirements, regulatory constraints, scalability issues, and workflow improvements for two clinical products with a shared codebase.
Partnered with product owners and design researchers to determine opportunity spaces for a differentiated product offering for clinical research organizations, pharma clients, and pathologists.
2020 – 2021
Principal Experience Designer, Foundation Medicine, Boston, MA
Developed frameworks and practices to maximize the impact and vision of experience design for a cancer genomics and decision insights leader across the clinical and biopharma portfolio.
Championed a comprehensive accessibility evaluation with a third party to improve customer portal experiences, reduce legal exposure, and provide an opportunity to address technical debt.
2018 – 2020
Senior Manager, User Experience, athenahealth, Watertown, MA
Led UX teams across products and design ops during an exciting period in athenahealth’s mission to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.
Spearheaded UX efforts on a dedicated design systems team, including concept exploration and validation, roadmapping, as well as advocacy and outreach across the organization
Contributed strategic thinking and tactical execution to key infrastructural upgrades across the platform ecosystem, including design standards and clarified interaction patterns
Championed new tools to drive efficiency, including introducing git-style version control, shared component libraries, dedicated feedback channels, and monthly bootcamps to practice technical and communication skills for designers across the org
Mentored and managed UX designers across multiple product teams and geographies
2016 – 2018
Associate Director, User Experience, Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, MA
Led a team of six user experience designers working across a wide swath of product portfolio and operational infrastructure, with an emphasis on cross-team collaboration, user-centered thinking, clarity, and consistency.
Coordinated UX efforts across multiple aspects of FMI’s infrastructure and technical products divisions, and worked with individual contributors to Identify and communicate opportunity areas and risk assessments to product owners and stakeholders.
Provided tactical and strategic guidance to individual UX team members including artifact generation, technical discussions, and communication strategies while working in a deadline-driven Agile software development environment.
Coordinated communication with design leadership to deliver and reinforce consistent messaging and tone.
2016 — 2018
UX lead, Experience Design, Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, MA
Continued to lead UX and UI efforts for a massively complex upgrade to software for automated medical report generation and curation while assuming a broader leadership role in a growing design group.
Recruited and led a team of six UX designers embedded in scrum teams focussed on molecular analytics platforms, corporate website redesign, patient report curation, mobile applications, and online ordering and tracking.
Developed library-based components for a design system to create a common and consistent visual language across the portfolio and implemented version control for UX team.
Researched, prototyped, tested, and designed a major infrastructure upgrade to enable Foundation Medicine to scale it’s clinical report business.
2011 — 2016
Design Lead, Project Titan, Verndale, Boston, MA
Conceptualized, prototyped, and designed an ambitious SaaS-based business management software platform with applications for account administration, project and task management, time entry, resource allocation and assignment, financial tracking and invoice generation, performance review management and more.
Additional Experience
2007 — 2011
Art Director, Verndale, Boston, MA
2006 — 2007
Designer, Lehman Millet, Boston, MA
2004 — 2006
Production Manager, Designer, Spring Digital, London, UK
2000 — 2004
Designer, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA
Education
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Bachelor of Science in biology, magna cum laude, phi beta kappa
