Case Studies
Systems-first product leadership
Client engagements, design systems, and the tools I use to connect research, decisions, and delivery. Recent work with Parts Town and The Academy shows that practice in use.
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Parts Town: Navigation and Information Architecture
Connecting customer intent, catalog structure, and the rules that shape product discovery.
A navigation and information architecture engagement connecting storefront evidence, catalog relationships, and customer context to a practical recommendation for product discovery.
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The Academy: Connecting Brand, Content, and Delivery
Helping a community program tell its full story and carry it through to a working website.
Led strategy, content direction, and delivery coordination for The Academy's rebrand and website, connecting a family-centered experience to the team's everyday work with CMOS, Stage1, and TraceLab.
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CMOS + DeepSearch — The High-Integrity Delivery Loop
Orchestrating autonomous agents from research into build with auditable project memory.
A unified delivery platform that connects DeepSearch research loops with CMOS mission orchestration, providing a protocol-first pipeline for AI-assisted engineering.
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OODS Foundry — Object-Oriented Design System
OODS Foundry turns UI development into trait composition. Instead of hand-coding components, teams assemble objects from reusable capabilities, backed by strict token guardrails, OKLCH color policy, and automated evidence that keeps accessibility and governance in lockstep.
Context-aware UI platform where components bind only to semantic tokens, delivering accessible multi-brand experiences without code churn.
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TraceLab — Building the Library That Teaches AI to Remember
An Autonomous Knowledge System that turns research into validated, searchable institutional memory.
Structured research platform that enforces data contracts through Pydantic validation and quality gates, enabling autonomous agents to generate reusable knowledge.
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Industrial IoT Design System — Uptake
Design system for real-time industrial dashboards and safety-critical alerts across multiple verticals.
Built and led a 12-person UX team and an industrial IoT design system that unified time-series, alerting, and diagnostic patterns across a suite of ML and data products.
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Paylocity UX/UI Modernization — Citrus Design System
From 'C+' UI to a modern, governed design system that scaled across a multi-product HR platform.
Helped lead the UI modernization that unified Paylocity's suite around the Citrus design system, contributing shared patterns, components, and a five-dimension brand-to-UX framework.
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Paylocity Video Solutions
Unifying video creation, delivery, and analytics into a credible, high-engagement platform capability.
Led UX strategy for a video ecosystem that spans onboarding, learning, communication, and recognition, turning video from a bolt-on feature into a differentiated platform capability.