I am a Full-Stack
Design Leader
crafting inclusive,
scalable experiences.
Experience
- Design Systems & Accessibility
- Engineering Collaboration
- Leadership & Strategy
- Full-Stack Execution
Accessibility & UX Leadership
At OneMain Financial, I've led a “shift-left” accessibility strategy, improving our accessibility score across all of our digital assets, moved accessibility testing and remediation earlier in the product development lifecycle, and integrated automated processes in the CI/CD pipeline.
Over the past year I've also stepped into the interim Associate Director role, where I coach cross-functional teams and set the strategic roadmap for enterprise-wide accessibility.
Remediations
Analytics
18
Applications
+500
Automated / Manual Tests
472%
Issue Remdiation Increase
In 2025, I accelerated strategic accessibility and UX advancements, notably launching the impactful 2025 Summer Accessibility Awareness Campaign aligned with Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This comprehensive initiative featured tailored design and engineering challenges, a curated library of educational resources, live demonstrations of assistive technologies, and a high-impact accessibility demo in collaboration with Fable, illustrating real-world navigation by non-visual users.
I received a Shine-On Award for Leadership, recognizing my contributions to cross-functional collaboration, mentorship, and transparency in advancing inclusive design practices. I also launched the Accessibility Hub Slack channel, significantly boosting company-wide engagement and fostering an active dialogue around accessibility achievements, challenges, and professional growth opportunities.
Operationally, I provided pivotal UX guidance for Communications and Acquisitions, streamlined stakeholder processes through improved Figma file organization, and contributed directly to the OMF Design System with expertise in accessibility compliance and UX best practices. I partnered effectively with DevOps, implementing accessibility linting within automated CI/CD pipelines across multiple teams and driving improvements to Jira workflows for better accessibility issue tracking.
Creative Design
Product Design
Projects
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Over the past two years, I've steadily improved this exhibit entry flow, simplifying payment options based on Entrant Status. In the first year, I focused on refining the JavaScript, adding functionality and validation for the curator. In 2023, I restructured the flow for greater intuitiveness by grouping personal info, entry details, and payments. Next year, I'm transitioning it to Svelte or Next for further optimization. You can view that mapping in Figma.
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A tool I designed and built in Next.js that helps with auditing and scoring the accessibility of sites and applications. I use this almost daily. It uses markdown files to store the site data, so it doesn't require any type of database connection.
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Every year I participate in the MSAI Summer Arts program where I teach a number of classes, such as Illustration and Graphic Design. I also make the yearly posters and brochures for the program.
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I started an accessibility blog back in 2022 to work a bit on my creative writing and get up to speed on building things in Next.js. I've fallen off a bit on the writing but I learned a lot from the project, mainly how to pull articles in Markdown into a Next framework.
North American Box Lacrosse League Redesign
A friend of mine needed a redesign of the NABLL website. I did a full user flow and redesign in Figma and he is working on the development.
A few more things.
A little about me.
I am labeled as a unicorn, fomr my ability to design and code. I am a proactive manager and leader in UX and Design with an extensive technical background. I have outstanding managerial and leadership skills to guide a department to attain superlative results in user interface design and development. I am knowledgeable of team motivation and stimulating creativity and production. I can hold my own in front-end design and full-stack development, applicable to any area of the workflow, including research, branding, design mockups, prototyping, back-end schemas and development, front-end development, usability testing.
My hyper focus is in accessibility because using the web is a universal right. I am available for providing a consult if you need to see how your site or app holds up.
What's this site?
I wanted to explore some conceptual design ideas, along with manipulating theme state with Sveltkit, so I decided it would be fun to design different themes based on the same structure, like we used to do back in the day with css zen garden.
This is a work in progress, so expect bugs and some quirky non-responsive states at times. The idea is to continue to add theme genres and push what's possible with the state management of SvelteKit. I am drawn to the more random, fun parts of the user experience, which was my goal with my portfolio.