- Owned the technical direction and evolution of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure design system and shared UI platform, supporting multiple cloud services across a large, distributed engineering organization.
- Led cross functional collaboration with design, product, and engineering to define a cohesive system of components, tokens, and patterns that balanced brand consistency with the flexibility required by diverse cloud products.
- Designed and delivered core frontend architecture and component foundations, reducing duplicated UI work and accelerating feature delivery across teams building OCI services.
- Partnered with senior engineers and designers to align UX requirements with technical constraints, translating complex workflows and cloud specific use cases into scalable, reusable platform capabilities.
- Remained hands on in critical areas of the codebase, contributing to architecture reviews, key implementations, and technical decision making for high impact UI infrastructure.
Work
Oracle
Senior Manager - OCI
Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 · 10 mo
Greater Seattle Area - Remote
Principle Software Engineer
Oct 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo
Greater Seattle Area - Hybrid
- Served as a senior individual contributor owning core frontend platform architecture for OCI’s enterprise design system and component library, with responsibility for long term technical direction and system integrity across multiple cloud services.
- Designed and built core UI components and patterns used across OCI services, with a focus on accessibility, performance, and consistency.
- Drove adoption of modern frontend practices and design-system thinking across teams with varying levels of maturity.
- Worked directly with engineers and designers to solve complex UI and workflow problems in production environments.
Senior Manager - JET
Sep 2021 – Invalid Date NaN ·
Greater Seattle Area - Remote
- Led the modernization of Oracle’s JET frontend platform, defining and executing a multi year architecture roadmap used across OCI, Fusion Apps and GBU teams serving thousands of customers.
- Drove a major VDOM migration of core UI primitives to address long standing performance and maintainability constraints, enabling more predictable rendering behavior and unblocking downstream teams building complex, modern applications.
- Designed and introduced platform level abstractions for theming, layout, and component composition, reducing fragmentation and improving reuse and consistency across teams.
- Established standardized frontend quality gates in CI, including accessibility, performance, and visual regression testing, significantly reducing regressions and increasing release confidence across product teams.
- Led a sustained effort to eliminate accessibility debt by integrating automated testing, shared patterns, and clear ownership models, reducing the backlog by more than 85% and raising baseline accessibility compliance across the platform.
- Acted as the technical bridge between design, product, and engineering by translating UX requirements into scalable platform capabilities, aligning stakeholders through RFCs, architecture reviews, and shared decision making.
- Introduced clear ownership and operating models, including DRI and RACI, to reduce decision latency and ambiguity in cross org initiatives, enabling more predictable delivery.
- Remained hands-on in critical areas of the codebase, contributing to architecture, reviews, and key implementations while mentoring senior engineers.
UX Engineer
Google via Adecco
Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 · 2 mo
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Consulted on UX research and internal tooling.
- Built an application to showcase design research initiatives across Google Cloud teams.
Senior Software Engineer (Contractor)
Korn Ferry
Mar 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yrs 3 mo
Greater Los Angeles Area - Remote
- Modernized a B2C career coaching platform using React and Next.js, introducing a reusable design system to improve collaboration and delivery speed.
- Developed a mobile application in Swift using The Composable Architecture (TCA), applying functional and reactive programming concepts.
Mobile Application Developer (Contractor)
Teague
Feb 2017 – Mar 2017 · 1 mo
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Developed mobile and in-car UI’s for testing an autonomous vehicle service.
Head of Design
MileZero
Mar 2016 – Dec 2016 · 9 mo
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- I led the design and UI development of a real-time logistics platform.
- Managed design and frontend engineering team for faster iteration and delivery.
frog
7 yrs 1 mo
Principal Design Technologist
Apr 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yrs 10 mo
Munich, Germany / Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Led cross-disciplinary teams building design systems and frontend architectures for enterprise clients including GE, Daimler and more.
- Conducted in field design research in Africa and South East Asia and prototyped a new comms app for the Niki Foundation.
Senior Design Technologist
Jan 2009 – Apr 2014 · 5 yrs 3 mo
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Served as a technical partner to designers and executives, aligning design with long-term product strategy.
- Built interactive mobile OS prototypes for Nokia and Qualcomm to explore gesture-based navigation and multi-application interactions, supporting early experimentation for next-generation smartphones in response to the emergence of the iPhone.
- Built numerous digital products for clients like Microsoft, PwC, Disney, Telstra, and more.
Senior Developer
Filter, LLC
Oct 2008 – Dec 2008 · 2 mo
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Developed the Filter website and an interactive portfolio visualization using Three.js.
Senior UI Developer
Ramp Group
Aug 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yrs 2 mo
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Developed web-based applications, mobile applications, e-commerce solutions and more.
Instructor
School of Visual Concepts
Aug 2007 – Dec 2007 · 4 mo
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Taught the Intermediate Flash class, a hands-on course teaching 2D drawing techniques, time-line animations and basic computer programming with ActionScript.
Senior Developer
Razorfish
Aug 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Developed highly interactive websites using Flash, Silverlight, and JavaScript/HTML/CSS for various .com startups and Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, HouseValues, Cingular, AT&T, Best Buy, Netflix, and more.
- Technical advisor to the Design department on feasibility and technical implementations.
Graphic Designer
Expeditors
Aug 2003 – Aug 2005 · 2 yrs
Greater Seattle Area - On-Site
- Led the design and UI development of the corporate website and one subsidiary website.
- Developed interactive presentations for the Executive Team.
- Designed and developed interactive digital annual reports.
- Designed and developed custom widgets for the company intranet.
- Designed printed materials such as the quarterly magazine, business to business and other marketing materials.