About

Designer, builder, partner, leader. I lead product design for critical infrastructure software at Cisco, where I shape product strategy, work through technical systems, and stay close enough to the interface and code to know when the idea actually holds up.

I work across executives, Product, Engineering, Research, and Design to turn complex bets into a direction teams can build. Sometimes that means setting the model and raising the quality through critique. Sometimes it means opening Figma or writing production code myself.

Each day, products my teams and I have designed help connect and protect millions of people across trillions of bytes. Most people never think about us. That is the point.

Whether it’s or we have designed meaningful experiences to connect people to what they care about.

That is what design means to me: a team coming together to make hard things feel effortless, useful, and occasionally joyful.

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