Who I Am

I’m a caregiver at heart. That goes back further than my career — I grew up helping take care of my mom, my grandmother, my uncle. Showing up for people when they need something is just how I’m wired, and I’ve never seen a reason to leave that at the door when I go to work.

In practice that means I want the people around me to feel genuinely safe. Not “we have an open door policy” safe — actually safe. If someone’s working overtime, I want to know, not because it affects the budget, but because it affects them. If their partner just broke up with them and they need a few hours, I want to know that too. I’ve managed teams where that kind of honesty made the difference between someone burning out quietly and someone asking for help before it got that far.

I show up as myself every day. I’ve spent a long time figuring out who that is, and I think the people I work with deserve to know.

What I Do

I make the gears turn. That means getting a project from kickoff to delivery in the most efficient path possible — setting up reusable code early so the team isn’t rebuilding the same thing three times, planning sprints with a clear arc from start to finish, and staying one step ahead of bottlenecks before they become blockers.

A big part of how I do that is through code reviews. I learned early — teaching gymnastics to elementary schoolers was my first job — that the instinct to solve a problem and the instinct to show someone else how to solve it are almost the same thing. I bring that into every PR review. Teaching in the moment builds shared understanding that pays off when velocity really counts: late in a project, or at the start of the next one.

I’ve been doing this for over 20 years, across design systems, state government sites, healthcare platforms, and foundation work. The technology changes. Getting projects done doesn’t.