Design systems · Front-end · Accessibility
At Harvard Medical School I built one component library that four products ran on — an edX course platform, its interactives, a partner dashboard, and a marketing site. At Bentley I built a design system for our email platform, then a tool so producers could use it without touching code.
Alongside that I design and build small web apps, like a searchable archive of Bentley’s alumni class notes, and I started a university-wide accessibility working group that grew to fifteen people from six divisions.
Four projects, each proving something different. Every one of them shipped.
Bentley University · Web application
A static alumni list that was deleted two times a year, rebuilt as a persistent searchable application. I wrote the business case, designed it, built the front end, and ran the usability study.
Read the case study See it — Class Notes (opens in a new tab)
— read the HMX Design System case study
Harvard Medical School · Design system
One shared foundation consumed by an edX course platform, its interactives, a Partner Dashboard and a marketing site, built to improve accessibility and responsiveness across all four.
— read the Accessibility Working Group case study
Bentley University · Program
I wrote the proposal and the charter for a cross-departmental group, and recruited co-lead Stephanie Bohler. It came together at fifteen people, ran for eighteen months, and left behind a university-wide resource organized by role rather than by technology.
Bentley University · Internal tool
An email builder with live preview, drag-to-reorder sections, and a size meter that enforces the platform's send limit while you write — so a producer never discovers the ceiling at send time.
Shipped work that doesn’t need a case study. Most of these open the real thing.
A scroll-driven annual report — full-bleed section backgrounds including video, statistic cards and quote shields layered over them, and reveal animations guarded for reduced motion throughout. The current entry in a line of donor reports going back to Fletcher.
Custom interactive components built for Bentley’s digital magazine — pull-quote layouts, illustrated section breaks, animated transitions. The magazine started requesting new features per issue.
Students pick a therapeutic method and target gene, then follow the consequences of that choice across five steps, with hints, dead-ends, and modal explanations. I designed and prototyped it; the development team built it in Preact.
A static Drupal template rebuilt as a component-based interactive report. It performed well enough that the print edition was retired.
1,500 video well-wishes for a class that lost its ceremony, filterable by school. Solved the load problem with thumbnail proxies that swap video in and out on demand.
Asked to paste donor names into a table, I built an hour-by-hour interactive instead. Eight spin-off campaigns followed, along with a standard “donor wall” toolkit. Each iteration added to or improved the earlier work.
Eight years directing email design and development across Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, and Slate.
Brand identity and print when the work called for it. Samples on request.
I’m a design engineer in the Boston area. I’ve spent fifteen years in higher education — Tufts, Harvard Medical School, and now Bentley — designing and building the web applications, learning experiences, fundraising tools, and marketing campaigns those institutions run on.
I have an MA in Interactive Design from SCAD and recently finished an MS in Human Factors in Information Design at Bentley in August 2026.
Outside of UX, I’m passionate about astronomy, clean technology, composting, and sustainability. I serve on the Merrimac Green Advisory Committee, where I contribute to local environmental initiatives.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, responsive and front-end prototyping, Git
Component libraries, design tokens, interaction and state specification, documentation, adoption and governance
WCAG AA/AAA, keyboard navigation, screen reader testing, contrast and colorblind validation, inclusive design, SiteImprove
Usability testing, moderated think-aloud studies, heuristic evaluation, information architecture, content modeling
Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Drupal, WordPress, Slate, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, edX