Ways of working

How I think before I design.

The artifacts, frameworks, and structures I use to make ambiguous problems workable. No narrative needed here — just the work.

Artifacts

Certification service blueprint

Certification service blueprint

Frontstage / backstage map across Technology, HR, and Store Ops for the teammate certification program. Used to align four teams on a single source of truth before a line of code was written.

Service design
Details upon request

Teammate experience journey map

End-to-end journey map built in TheyDo. Became the primary planning and prioritization artifact for the pilot and continues to inform roadmap decisions.

TheyDo  ·  Journey mapping
Details upon request

Services capabilities alignment workshop

Facilitation structure for a cross-functional session designed to build shared vision across services capabilities. Includes session arc, activity design, and synthesis approach.

Facilitation
Details upon request

Performance experience principles

Guiding criteria authored for the CTO-level performance pilot — used to evaluate design decisions and keep a high-visibility initiative aligned across stakeholders.

Strategy  ·  Experience principles
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Service design framework for coaches

A framework defining the end-to-end service design model for a net-new coaching offering. Currently in progress.

Service design  ·  In progress
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Concept cards / storyboards

A way of making early-stage direction tangible before anything is formal enough to wireframe. Concept cards and storyboards give a shared, high-level picture of what’s possible — something an executive can react to and a product team can translate into actual work. The same artifact, traversing very different audiences. (Content anonymized — available on request.)

Storyboarding  ·  Concepting

All artifacts anonymized where needed. Full context available on request.


How I approach problems

01

Structure makes ambiguity workable

Not to constrain — to create just enough clarity to act

02

Anchor to the next thing we can learn

Target rigor, don’t skip it — find the next real question

03

Ship the imperfect thing

Real feedback beats the most beautiful unshipped prototype

04

Find the shared language

The best alignment moment is when a room finds its mental model