Over a decade crafting interfaces at the intersection of federal infrastructure, accessibility, and design systems. The work shows up in disease surveillance dashboards, veteran benefit portals, and the design system behind every page on CDC.gov.
Peraton → U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — MVP Platform
"The digital front door for 9 million veterans navigating claims, health services, and benefits — where an unclear UI isn't an inconvenience, it's a barrier to care."
"Building interfaces epidemiologists rely on to understand disease in real time — visualizations where speed and clarity aren't features, they're requirements."
"The foundation every CDC public health communication rests on — the template, the component, the accessibility rule that ensured COVID guidance was findable, readable, and trustworthy for every American."
Pre-2019 · Commercial, agency, and product work
Built marketing sites, landing pages, and interactive experiences for clients across retail, healthcare, and media. First exposure to production accessibility requirements and cross-browser debugging.
Deep WordPress and Drupal development — custom themes, plugin architecture, and multisite deployments. Built a foundation in server-side templating and content management patterns that proved essential later.
Early adopter of Grunt, Gulp, and Bower-era automation. Established repeatable build processes and asset pipelines at a time when that wasn't standard practice. Led to a natural evolution into modern bundler expertise.
Photoshop comps to HTML/CSS — working directly from design files before Zeplin, Figma, or Sketch existed. Developed an eye for pixel precision and a deep appreciation for the designer-developer handoff problem.
What shows up across every engagement