I interrogate
complex systems

01 About me

I’m a design researcher, focusing on new product development for AI Hardware Acceleration and Synthetic Data. My work is guided by speculative futures, weak signals, patterns in data, and emerging technology trends.

  • People will do what’s easy more often than they’ll do what’s right — I firmly believe that value increases when design meets technology. I empower design teams and cross-functional stakeholders to build intuitive and meaningful user experiences that ultimately drive business value and uncover future opportunities for growth.

  • As creatures of consequence, the key to staying inspired & leading with empathy is through exploring new places. Having lived across North America, Europe, and Asia, my exposure to new ways of living increased my ability to lead with curiosity rather than bias.

  • Having a multi-cultural upbringing has been one of the biggest influences on the way that I empathize with, interact with, and design for others. My approach to inclusivity & equitability stem from the deep understanding that different (and sometimes opposing) rituals, beliefs, and perspectives can co-exist when people feel safe and trust one another.

02 work experience

Lead Design Researcher, AI

+ zNext AI Design Lead

+ Cross-portfolio research & new product development for Spyre AI Accelerator, IBM Synthetic Data Sets, and zAIOPs partner integrations.

+ Focus on 0-1 product definition, GTM, design strategy, customer experience, user research, and speculative futures.

Lead Design Researcher, Platform Management

Design Strategist, Pre-sales Consulting

IBM

Founder, Creative Director & Principal Designer

OMNI     STUDIO™

Designer, Brand & Growth

Everlaw

Industrial Designer

WestRock

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03 Awards & Eminence

Banking Tech Awards Finalist
Best AI Solution — Data Insights & Knowledge Management

FinTech Futures

Tech Award: Recognition for Technical Contributions
(Top 1% Performers)

IBM

Culture Catalyst Award

IBM

Strategic Foresight Guild Leading Committee

IBM

Strategic Foresight & Design Futures Coach

Carnegie Mellon Service Design College

IBM Design Challenge Judge

SF Design Week

Behavioral Design Guild Leader

IBM

Entrepreneur Award
Streamlining Accessibility for Designers

IBM

Design Thinking Coach

Advancing Minorities Interest in Engineering

Diversity & Inclusion Speaker

UXify Eindhoven

Global Grad Show Exhibitor

Dubai Design Week

Innovation RCA Shortlist
Thesis project: Ova

Royal College of Art

Walter P. Baermann Award for Excellence in Design Profession

NC State College of Design

04 Education

Executive Education: Business, Finance, Leadership

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Master of Art + Master of Science, Global Innovation Design

Royal College of Art + Imperial College London

+  Global Innovation Design brings together design, culture, and enterprise. My thesis project (Ova) focused on increasing autonomy of young women & closing the healthcare gender-inequality gap by designing an at-home testing kit for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), an integrated public care-delivery system, and a guerilla marketing campaign. My advisory board was made up of public and private clinical professionals, reproductive endocrinologists, service designers, and entrepreneurs.

+  Design residencies at Keio Media Design in Tokyo and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn

+  Concentrations: Participatory design, UX, brand identity, design engineering, entrepreneurship, product development, design research

Bachelor of Industrial Design

North Carolina State University

+  IDSA Student Chapter Co-President

+  Concentrations: User research, rapid prototyping, manufacturing, CMF, human factors, experience design

Full resume and work samples provided upon request