I design AI tools that know when to act and when to ask.

Senior Product Designer at Intuit in San Diego. My document automation for TurboTax Live, QuickBooks Live and BizTax experts cut 46 minutes from each engagement and saved $3.54M. I prototype in code as well as Figma.

Selected work

Service Studio

An AI workspace that turns a plain-English brief into a buildable expert service

Intuit · Senior Product Designer, concept through launch · 2025–present · Shipping 2026

A team describes a new service in plain English, and the journey, the expert's screens and the agent bundle draw as they answer. I designed it from the first prototype to a 2026 launch.

Service Studio drafting a new service: on the left a conversation in which the assistant asks one question at a time and the designer answers in plain English, on the right a journey of four connected steps, Onboarding, Monitoring, Return assembly and Filing, with a dashed line for a step that waits on a condition.
Fig. 1 · Service Studio, a draft journey of four steps

Digital Evidence Archive

Open-source evidence management for police agencies

Amazon · User Experience Designer, design lead · 2022–2023 · Open source

Police agencies were storing digital evidence in systems built for physical evidence. I led design from research to handoff for an archive that gives every file a case, a structure and an audit trail.

  • ~45 minsaved per case
  • 12validation sessions
  • 4user roles, one permission model
Read the case study on the Digital Evidence Archive
Digital Evidence Archive All Cases screen: a table of cases with file counts, sizes, creation dates and status.
Fig. 2 · Digital Evidence Archive, all cases

Agent workspace

An AI workspace where agents do the work and experts approve it

Intuit · Senior Product Designer, concept through launch · 2024–present · In pilot

Agents do the work and experts approve it: a new client arrives with documents pulled, a refund estimated and a welcome message drafted. I designed it from the first prototype to a limited pilot.

Agent workspace prototype home screen: activity cards with 18 of 22 active returns and a 92 percent completion rate, a call-activity card, a daily schedule and a customers table.
Fig. 3 · Agent workspace, home screen with activity cards

ContxtIQ

A live copilot for recruiters screening technical candidates

ContxtIQ · Co-founder, design and front-end · 2025–present · In use

ContxtIQ grades each answer during a screening call and suggests the follow-up a technical interviewer would ask. I took it from a Figma Make prototype to pull requests on the production app.

  • 30+live screening sessions
  • 2recruiters using it
  • 1design-partner company
Read the case study on ContxtIQ
ContxtIQ review screen after a screening call for an HVAC technician role: three sections of questions, each answer with a score badge such as 85.7% and a response summary of bullet points written by the AI, and an average score for each section.
Fig. 4 · ContxtIQ, review screen after a call

About

I've designed software since 2020: first at Deloitte Digital across client projects, then at Amazon on an open-source evidence archive for police agencies, and since 2023 at Intuit, on AI tools for its tax and bookkeeping experts.

Most of my work answers one question: when should software act on its own, and when should a person decide? At Intuit that meant a confidence threshold for renaming customer documents. At ContxtIQ, a startup I co-founded, it means grading interview answers live while the recruiter stays in charge of the call.

I prototype in Figma and in code. At ContxtIQ I ship interface changes to the production app myself.

Based in
San Diego, CA
Now
Senior Product Designer, Intuit, 2023–present
Also
Co-founder, ContxtIQ, 2025–present
Before
User Experience Designer, Amazon, 2022–2023
Before
User Experience Designer, Deloitte Digital, 2020–2022
Education
B.S. Information Technology, Virginia Tech, summa cum laude
Certification
NN/g UX Certification, UX Research specialization, 2022
Outside work
Hiking, camping, golf
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Contact

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