I’ve worked across brand and digital at companies both big and small -- and even tried my hand at instructing. Either way it goes, I’m a product designer just trying to make things make sense. Download Resume
Experience
PayPal Staff Product Designer April 2025 - Present
I lead product experience strategy for the core experiences team defining experiences like navigation, information architecture, first time user experiences, discovery, and product activation. I lead a cross-functional design team of eight to deliver innovative, user-centered solutions that drive business growth and customer satisfaction, while remaining hands-on in the day-to-day design work. As a team lead, I mentor designers, set strategic vision, and establish design systems that scale. In this role, I partner closely with product, engineering, and executive leadership to shape roadmaps and align design goals with company objectives.
Senior Product Designer Nov 2021 - April 2025
At PayPal, I work to create end-to-end experiences for merchants globally for both web and mobile. Partnering with my team, I lead the design experience for multiple projects from conceptualization to delivery. Utilizing and expanding the established design system and patterns, I collaborate across disciplines to build interaction designs that improve understanding, discoverability, and usage.
Texas State University Design Lecturer Jan 2023 - Present
I design, develop, and deliver curriculum that teaches the next generation of designers the fundamentals of experience design, with a focus on design research, prototyping, and generative solutioning to create innovative, human-centered experiences. My coursework is built to bridge academic theory with industry standards, fostering critical thinking, technical proficiency, and design leadership. I guide students in exploring experience design across digital and physical touchpoints, emphasizing solutions that improve users’ lives by understanding the relationships between people, activities, environments, and digital artifacts in an inclusive, studio-style environment that encourages experimentation, collaboration, and real-world problem solving.
Arrive Logistics
UX Designer
Nov 2019 – Nov 2021
As the fastest growing freight brokerage of all time, Arrive Logistics aims to help be the connection between commercial shippers and carriers. Working with product managers, developers and other designers, I contributed to a new, cohesive design language system, audited and updated internal software used by business development teams, and defined and designed new interfaces.
T3
Visual Designer
June 2018 – Oct 2019
At this digital agency, I shaped user experiences for clients to create pixel-perfect styleguides, interfaces, and component libraries. Some notable clients during my time here were Home Depot, Cinamark and Waste Management.
NativeX
Brand Experience Designer
May 2015 – May 2018
NativeX is an adtech company that provides solutions to elevate user engagement in mobile applications. I managed brand standards and created the visual language for the company to establish its foundational visual library. After the company was acquired, I worked with teams in China and Southeast Asia to develop strategic direction for global expansion of the brand.
Activities
Conferences
“Innovation is the New Black Box” SXSW EDU, Austin, Texas / 2022
“Speculative Design as a Tool” AIGA [GROW] Conference, St. Edwards University / 2020
“The Future Can Be Designed” DEL Conference, Texas State University / 2019 Publications
Harris, L. G. (2021). Innovation is the new black box: A critical review of human-centered design (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
Education
Master of Fine Arts in Communication Design
Texas State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
Grand Valley State University