My experience spans design, technology, research, and teaching. I see these not as separate disciplines, but as interconnected parts of the same system — shaped by a long-standing interest in how people pick up new skills, make them stick, and, most importantly, enjoy the process.

My career has taken me from teaching and frontend development into UX design and digital product adoption - disciplines that turned out to have more in common than I expected. Most recently, at Greenphire, I designed onboarding and in-app guidance to help people navigate complex software, and built out a translation and localization workflow for guides and support content across 16 languages. That work reflected what I'm passionate about: technology, clear communication, and making digital experiences accessible to more people.

Those interests took root long before I worked in UX. I studied German in Germany, and deepened my Mandarin, Japanese, and Spanish living and working abroad. Learning to communicate across languages taught me to pay attention to context, not just words — and to notice how differently people approach the very same information.

After years spent studying human languages, I turned to programming languages. I earned a web development certificate from the University of Pennsylvania and moved into frontend development and UX design. Today I draw on both halves of that path: the technical skills to build digital experiences, and the cross-cultural instinct to think about how people actually understand and use them.