At Alation, I drove design for AI-powered Data Quality and reimagined foundational catalog experiences, including lineage visualization and customizable homepages.

• Led 0→1 initiatives that transformed underutilized or “spaghetti monster” features into intuitive, scalable tools.

• Designed user-friendly interfaces for complex data tasks, increasing discoverability, trust, and engagement across enterprise customers.

• Partnered with cross-functional teams to align product vision, engineering feasibility, and customer needs.

• Contributed to Alation’s broader platform redesign, setting the foundation for modern, extensible design systems.

• Conducted studies with teachers in order to understand their day-to-day experiences and used the research to inform design decisions.

• Leveraged research to inform designs on an updated core canvas experience and a new experimental homework app.

• Redesigned existing internal data platform to better support our medical researchers by removing dependencies on third-party tools and increasing efficiency by 3x.

• Applied design thinking to product strategy workshops and helped unite the product team on a central vision for our research platform.

• Led design and research efforts for the company’s largest projects: experimentation and feature workflows.

• Collaborated with PM and engineering, forming a triad, to inform product scope and milestones.

• Established regular collaborative whiteboarding sessions with PM and engineering to increase

visibility and participation in the design process.

• Helped establish new design patterns and components in order to achieve more consistency and accessibility in our application.

• Led design and research output for client health dashboard that enables users to see their network health in a holistic manner.

• Partnered with engineering to ensure design components were reusable.

• Documented customer journey with touchpoints, metrics of success, and pain points in order to facilitate company-wide discussions on customer experience.

• Led research initiative to understand and improve the information architecture of our core product.

• Applied design thinking methods to company-wide diversity and inclusion efforts with the goal to improve inclusion experience.