I graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University with two degrees that don't obviously go together: Graphic Design & UX and Sports Marketing. In hindsight, they tell you everything about how I think — half visual problem-solver, half competitive strategist who wants to win.
My career started in design. At Ashley Furniture, I was deep in omnichannel UX — mapping journeys across e-commerce, mobile, and in-store kiosks, and translating data into cleaner, faster experiences. From there, Ideal Image gave me my first real taste of working at the intersection of business operations and user behavior — designing scheduling flows that had to work for both the customer and the business.
Then came Neuraflash (now Accenture), and everything clicked. Pre-sales turned out to be exactly where my skillset lived. Discovery, solution design, narrative demos, architecture diagrams, stakeholder communication — it's all design work. You're just designing a path to a decision instead of a path through an app.
I became the primary technical resource for enterprise SaaS and AI deals, partnering with AEs to qualify, shape, and close. I've worked across Salesforce, AWS, and AI tooling, and I contributed to a product that shipped to AWS Marketplace. Today I bring the same UX instincts to every discovery call — I'm thinking about the buyer's experience before they even open the demo.