Hi, I'm James

I am a UX designer, educator, and mentor who reshapes complex user problems into clean and intuitive design solutions. Having worked in industry, education, and nonprofit spaces, I value mentorship and passing down professional knowledge to empower others. 

With 6 years of UI/UX design experience, I’m currently a design system specialist at Trimble. Before that, I served as a design consultant for a diverse range of clients, including nonprofits, startups, and small businesses. Additionally, I have significant experience in design education, having developed and taught K-12 design curriculum at the St. Vrain Valley School District’s Innovation Center. I have also contributed to university-level instruction by teaching for 3 courses at CU Boulder: Design Foundations, Universal Design for Digital Media, and User Experience Design on both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Beyond design and education, I have a background in software development. I spent three summers as a software engineering intern at Amazon Braket, where I focused on enhancing the customer experience and data visualization for their quantum computing services. Prior to Amazon, I was a QA software engineering intern at Anark, responsible for creating and automating test cases for their web application.