Experience

20+ years building at the intersection of design, brand, and healthcare.

From formalized HCD practice at Florida Blue to enterprise-scale design systems at CVS Health, to building design culture and leading brand strategy at Sydney Consulting Group.

2023–Present Sydney Consulting Group

Experience Design Director & Marketing Strategist

Leading experience design across two business units. SCG's consulting practice and Sydney Administrators, a TPA serving carriers, employers, and distribution partners. Built design culture from scratch: no process, no precedent. Architected a white-label portal framework deployed across three carriers simultaneously, managing admin, producer, and member interactions from a single foundational system.

Also led a full brand identity refresh for Sydney Consulting Group, spanning identity system, website, templates, and a formalized brand voice guide used across every channel.

Currently leading design of the Opportunity Tracking System (OTS). A purpose-built pipeline and proposal management platform for supplemental insurance worksite distribution, targeting fall 2026 launch.

Design Systems Channel Strategy White-Label Architecture Brand Identity Cross-Functional Leadership Team Development
Prior CVS Health

Experience Design Train Lead

Led the experience design train for chronic condition management: a team of six product designers responsible for the digital experience of kidney patients across the full course of their disease. Within that remit, partnered with UX research and content strategy on a pre-launch discovery sprint for a dialysis care experience built into the CVS Health Tracker app. Co-pitched the sprint unsolicited to the product team, earning PI inclusion. The sprint generated 10 prioritized feature concepts tied to real patient and caregiver challenges. Two are confirmed in the product pipeline, including Supply Inventory Manager and Care Team Connect.

Identified the caregiver as a co-manager of home hemodialysis treatment, a stakeholder the product hadn't yet fully accounted for. That insight reshaped the product's user frame before a single feature shipped.

Design Team Leadership UX Research Discovery Sprints Feature Concept Development Stakeholder Alignment
Prior Florida Blue

Sr. Human-Centered Design Lead

Formalized the HCD practice within the organization. Developing design methodologies, frameworks, and workflows for enterprise-scale healthcare products. Worked across complex member journeys in healthcare, building the foundation for a career of finding the user the product forgot.

HCD Methodology Enterprise Healthcare Member Journey Practice Building

What I bring to the room.

Channel Strategy

Cross-channel orchestration, member journeys, multi-platform systems

Design Systems

White-label architecture, component systems, scalable frameworks

Cross-Functional Leadership

PM alignment, engineering partnership, stakeholder management

HCD Research

Journey mapping, discovery sprints, user research synthesis

Team Development

Design culture building, HCD literacy across non-design orgs

Healthcare Domain

Benefits, supplemental insurance, care management, Medicare

Brand Strategy

Identity systems, brand voice, visual systems, template design

Marketing Communications

Campaign strategy, content strategy, channel messaging, storytelling