The road
so far.

Scroll down to walk it. Each checkpoint is a year, a city, a thing I shipped, and the lesson that came with it. Some of them have a soundtrack.

Years
7
Cities
3
Stages
08
  1. STAGE 01 · PROLOGUE2014 – 2018

    WilmerHale

    Litigation Project Assistant · Washington, D.C.
    PRACTICEInternational Antitrust
      Discovery · Document Review · Antitrust
    • STAGE 02 · ORIGIN STORY2017

      General Assembly

      Full-Stack Engineering · Washington, D.C.
      FIRST CLASSEngineering
      • ▸Full-stack program: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails.
      • ▸First time I shipped anything end to end. It stuck.
      HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Rails
    • STAGE 03 · PRE-GAMEJun 2018 – Jul 2019

      Hollingsworth LLP

      Senior Litigation Paralegal · Washington, D.C.
      FOUNDATIONSynthesis under fire
      • ▸Ran trial prep on the Monsanto Roundup litigation through the preliminary phase, mostly on my own.
      • ▸Spent two years finding patterns in documents nobody wanted to read. Turns out that is most of design research.
      Discovery · Synthesis · Trial Prep
    • STAGE 04 · SKILL TREE2019

      Flatiron School

      UX/UI Bootcamp · Chicago, IL
      PIVOTLaw to Design
      • ▸Daily critique, weekly sprints, a capstone that shipped.
      • ▸This is where I stopped being a paralegal.
      Sketch · InVision · Wireframing
    • STAGE 05 · FIRST POWER-UPApr 2020 – Oct 2021

      The Demex Group

      UX Engineer · Remote
      BUILT“North Star” system
      • ▸Only designer at a climate-fintech startup. I also wrote the front-end code.
      • ▸Owned product and marketing design start to finish. Nobody handed me a brief.
      • ▸Built the “North Star” design system and shipped the React components myself.
      React · Figma · Design Tokens
    • STAGE 06 · FINTECH RUNOct 2021 – May 2023

      Oportun

      Product Designer · Remote
      RETENTION20%
      • ▸Rebuilt sign-up and onboarding across banking, savings, investing, and budgeting. Retention hit 20%.
      • ▸Built the member insights area: 5% retention, 15% weekly active members.
      • ▸A lot of A/B tests. Money products have long feedback loops, so you learn to wait.
      Figma · A/B Testing · Lifecycle
    • STAGE 07 · SYSTEMS MODEMay 2023 – Jan 2025

      Berkeley Research Group

      Senior Product Designer · Remote
      DELIVERY25% velocity
      • ▸Shipped a legislative policy tracker. Login frequency went up 13%.
      • ▸Tore the design library apart and rebuilt it as a 3-tier token system. Front-end delivery got about 25% faster.
      • ▸Most of the job was turning dense business rules into components engineers could reuse.
      Tokens · Component Lib · Research
    • STAGE 08 · BOSS LEVELFeb 2025 – Present

      Capital One

      Senior Product Designer · McLean, VA · Hybrid
      ADOPTION25% → 75%
      • ▸Led a cross-functional AI enablement team that got agentic coding tools working for people outside engineering, which is where most of the adoption came from.
      • ▸Ran the user research on GitHub Copilot Agent Mode. It went to GA on the back of it.
      • ▸Led design for DevNav Hub. Release adoption went from 25% to 75%, CSAT up 9%.
      • ▸Built the Voice of the Engineer 2025 data viz, read by 12,000 associates and execs.
      • ▸Release engagement work reached 6,000 users. 3.6% opted out.
      • ▸Reworked the internal developer platform. Support tickets fell 39% and UMUX-Lite for the release experience went from 66 to 82.7 year over year.
      Strategy · Research · AI tooling · DataViz

    You made it
    to today.

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    THANKS FOR PLAYING.

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    Nine years, three cities, and a strange route in.

    I spent five years in litigation reading documents nobody wanted to read. Then I learned to code. Design is where both of those turned out to be useful. Here is the long version.

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    Roles

    8 positions · most recent first
    1. Feb 2025 – Present

      Senior Product Designer

      Capital One · McLean, VA · Hybrid
      • Led a cross-functional AI enablement team that got agentic coding tools working for people outside engineering, which is where most of the adoption came from.
      • Ran the user research on GitHub Copilot Agent Mode. It went to GA on the back of it.
      • Led design for DevNav Hub. Release adoption went from 25% to 75%, CSAT up 9%.
      • Built the Voice of the Engineer 2025 data viz, read by 12,000 associates and execs.
      • Release engagement work reached 6,000 users. 3.6% opted out.
      • Reworked the internal developer platform. Support tickets fell 39% and UMUX-Lite for the release experience went from 66 to 82.7 year over year.
      StrategyResearchAI toolingDataViz
    2. May 2023 – Jan 2025

      Senior Product Designer

      Berkeley Research Group · Remote
      • Shipped a legislative policy tracker. Login frequency went up 13%.
      • Tore the design library apart and rebuilt it as a 3-tier token system. Front-end delivery got about 25% faster.
      • Most of the job was turning dense business rules into components engineers could reuse.
      TokensComponent LibResearch
    3. Oct 2021 – May 2023

      Product Designer

      Oportun · Remote
      • Rebuilt sign-up and onboarding across banking, savings, investing, and budgeting. Retention hit 20%.
      • Built the member insights area: 5% retention, 15% weekly active members.
      • A lot of A/B tests. Money products have long feedback loops, so you learn to wait.
      FigmaA/B TestingLifecycle
    4. Apr 2020 – Oct 2021

      UX Engineer

      The Demex Group · Remote
      • Only designer at a climate-fintech startup. I also wrote the front-end code.
      • Owned product and marketing design start to finish. Nobody handed me a brief.
      • Built the “North Star” design system and shipped the React components myself.
      ReactFigmaDesign Tokens
    5. 2019

      UX/UI Bootcamp

      Flatiron School · Chicago, IL
      • Daily critique, weekly sprints, a capstone that shipped.
      • This is where I stopped being a paralegal.
      SketchInVisionWireframing
    6. Jun 2018 – Jul 2019

      Senior Litigation Paralegal

      Hollingsworth LLP · Washington, D.C.
      • Ran trial prep on the Monsanto Roundup litigation through the preliminary phase, mostly on my own.
      • Spent two years finding patterns in documents nobody wanted to read. Turns out that is most of design research.
      DiscoverySynthesisTrial Prep
    7. 2017

      Full-Stack Engineering

      General Assembly · Washington, D.C.
      • Full-stack program: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails.
      • First time I shipped anything end to end. It stuck.
      HTMLCSSJavaScriptRails
    8. 2014 – 2018

      Litigation Project Assistant

      WilmerHale · Washington, D.C.
      DiscoveryDocument ReviewAntitrust

    Education & Recognition

    • 2014
      B.A., Political Science
      Flagler College · St. Augustine, FL

      Four years of reading arguments closely. I still do it for a living.

    • 2017
      Full-Stack Engineering Cert
      General Assembly · Washington, D.C.

      The first time code stopped being someone else’s job.

    • 2020
      UX/UI Design Certificate
      Flatiron School · Chicago, IL

      Made the career change official.

    • 2024
      Hackonomics Winner
      Flatiron Alumni

      An AI personal finance app with OpenAI wired into the stack, built in 19 days. I led design and engineering. We won.

    • 2025
      Pro Bono Team Lead
      Capital One Social Impact

      Rebuilt onboarding for Carver Federal Savings Bank with a pro bono team.

    THANKS FOR PLAYING.

    Built in Washington, D.C., for anyone who reads the patch notes.

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