Design Framework
How I understand problems, shape a shared approach, and turn direction into useful, sustainable experiences.
My Work
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UMGC – Online Classroom Model
Designed and governed a shared classroom model across 1,000+ courses, supporting consistent navigation, accessibility, and sustainable course development.
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University of Maryland Global Campus – Shared Content Library
Built a governed content system in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) that reduced duplication by approximately 66% and made course content easier to reuse and maintain.
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University of Maryland Global Campus – Learner Support Portal
Brought student support into the online classroom by embedding it in UMGC’s shared classroom template, making resources easier to find when learners need them.
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Chesapeake Bay Program – Website Redesign
Redesigned a multi-agency public website for usability and mobile access, introducing reusable design patterns within an existing content management system.
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U.S. Army – Medal of Honor Website Redesign
Designed a responsive website that made Medal of Honor stories and historical information accessible across devices while preserving their integrity.
About Me
I’m a UX and learning technology leader with over a decade of experience in higher education, federal, and mission-driven environments.
I enjoy connecting the big picture to the practical details. That might mean helping a team define the problem, working through competing priorities, sketching an idea, or creating guidance that helps others put it into practice. I move comfortably between leading the work and contributing directly to it.
At the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), I’m helping shape a new Learning Technology & Innovation function within Learner Experience Design. I work across learning, design, and technology teams to explore how emerging capabilities can improve the classroom and the broader learner experience.
My background in digital learning and systems design shapes how I approach that work. I look beyond an individual interface to consider the content, decisions, workflows, and people that make an experience possible. Shared patterns matter when they make things easier to use, build, and support, but so does flexibility when people’s needs call for it.
Some of the hardest problems I’ve encountered have involved getting people aligned. I like helping teams find shared direction, make trade-offs clear, and move forward together. I bring a point of view, ask questions, and stay open to learning along the way.
Of course, there’s more to life than work.
I have a beautiful, brilliant wife who frequently beats me at Smash Up and loves that Survivor show. And an adorable, hilarious son who has taken to theater and improv, though Minecraft is still in heavy rotation.
In my free time, you might find me watching terrible made-for-TV movies, playing tabletop role-playing games, or enjoying the occasional well-timed nap.
And yes, I drink a lot of coffee.