Principal UX Designer

Irvine, CA. 07.2025 – Present

• Lead UX/UI design for the 3D mapping system of a startup building a comprehensive EP portfolio treating heart rhythm diseases.

• Understand clinical workflows and inputs to inform requirements development with software leads.

• Create designs and specifications for developer hand off and clarity of design intent and behavior.

• Manage backlog and priorities for UX/UI team, writing user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Manage direct reports workload and development.

Senior UX Designer & Strategist

Irvine, CA 2024 - 2025

• Rejoined the Design and Human Factors team, focused on treating heart rhythm diseases.

• Led industrial design update for an acquired system. Joined training with Field Clinical Engineers (FCE) to understand clinical workflows and techniques. Partnered with teams to conduct usability, identifying areas to improve ergonomics and design with evidence-based recommendations. Worked with engineering to ensure design intent through DFM/DFA.

• Led HFE team to manage programs across the portfolio, conducting usability studies with physicians, nurses, and CAS’s for deliverables supporting regulatory submissions.

• Competitor analysis and collaboration with strategic marketing to identify unmet needs and potential opportunities where user experience and usability could support competitive claims.

Principal Industrial Designer & UX

Boston, MA. 2022 - 2023

• Lead designer in the Boston MedTech Human Factors, Strategy, and Design Group. Innovation services at the intersection of user needs, market viability, and technical feasibly to envision desirable products that fulfill user goals and deliver strategic value.

• Led design development of physical products with digital UX/UI. Understood clinical workflows to develop holistic design systems that align cross functional teams in shared understanding of user goals. Usability research ensured decisions were based on user needs and insights were actionable.

• Helped life science startups develop future visions to grow from 0 to 1 proof-of-concept technology to marketable products. Translated user needs, commercial goals, and technical constraints into concept designs. Created pitch decks with market strategists and engineers to communicate product roadmaps for scale and/or raise funding.

• Created concepts to help teams of data scientists, AI/ML engineers, strategists, R&D, and clinical experts apply human machine understanding to augment clinical decisions and techniques from multiple data sources.

• Facilitated workshops with clinician KOL’s, business leaders, and technology experts to determine challenges, opportunities, and forecast future trends.

• Define bespoke program scope, plan, budget, and delivery of ID and UX/UI activities combined with other CC disciplines through understanding client challenges and goals.

Senior Industrial Designer, UX & Human Factors

DePuy Synthes - Raynham, MA. 2017 - 2022
Ethicon Endo-Surgery - Cincinnati, OH. 2015 - 2017

• Launched products for physical and digital products (embedded) in orthopedics, general surgery, cardiovascular specialties, and sterilization business units.

• Led ID, UX and usability for projects through the product development process, from initial user needs identification and requirements, to 2D concepts, 3D prototypes, user interface specifications, and production DFM/DFA with engineering. Led planning and execution of formative and summative usability research.

• Supported growth of UX capabilities to help J&J MedTech transform beyond traditional medical devices. Piloted eye-tracking on embedded GUI’s to demonstrate the value of usability for design decisions based on user feedback and evidence.

• Developed design strategy using design thinking and UX methods to frame business challenges from user centric perspectives (service blueprints, ecosystem maps, competitive audits). Worked with business partners to understand business context, clinical, technical, and customer stakeholders.

Kaleidoscope Innovations - Cincinnati, OH. 2013-2015

• Full-time onsite at Ethicon Endo-Surgery within the Industrial Design & Human Factors organization.

Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design

Cincinnati, OH. 2013 - 2016

• Crafted curriculum that developed students’ design communication skills, helping them prepare for professional practice co-ops in industries such as consulting, footwear, soft goods, medical devices, and introduction to digital UX/UI.

Bachelor of Science, Industrial Design
University of Cincinnati
College of Design, Architecture, Art, & Planning (DAAP)

Industrial Design Co-ops, 2009-2010

• Kaleidoscope Innovations - design consulting

• Enthoven Associates / Yellow Window - design consulting

• Ethicon Endorphin-Surgery- medical devices

• New Balance - footwear design

• Under Armor - footwear design

Bachelor of Arts, Zoology
Miami University (OH)

Online Certificates

Disruptive Strategy
Harvard Business School Online

Omnichannel Journeys and Customer Experience
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Designing a Business & Designing Strategy
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