Featured Projects · Teaching · Visual work
Featured projects, teaching, and visual work, each built with a real audience in mind.
UX research · product · data systems
A rental app on a PostgreSQL database, built for CS 425
I led a 3-person team from ER diagram to working app: agents list properties, renters search, book and pay, and the database blocks double bookings.
2025 · Team lead
An AI concept for Ulta Beauty
I led a 6-person team, created both of our AI concepts, chose Ulta, interviewed an Ulta executive and helped build the working prototype. Our class voted us #1 of 6 to present at Innovation Day.
2025 · Team lead, concept lead, researcher & prototyper
A budgeting dashboard for college students, with JPMorgan Chase
I led a 5-person team and designed the final screens for Savvy, a dashboard that helps college students see where their money goes and warns them before they overspend.
2023 · Team lead & product designer
Lessons · workshops · student programs
Exelon Summer Institute · 2026
Four days that took incoming Illinois Tech freshmen from saving a file and opening a terminal to writing their own Python functions and if/else logic.
Exelon Summer Institute · 2026
Five lectures and a hands-on exercise that taught incoming Illinois Tech freshmen to design with intent: proximity, alignment, repetition and contrast, plus type and color fundamentals.
Exelon Summer Institute · 2025
Seven months of simulate-first circuit projects for the Exelon Summer Institute, so every incoming Illinois Tech freshman had a next build that matched their pace and interests.
Laser cutting · 3D printing · vinyl · carving
Vinyl cut
A self-directed project to teach myself the vinyl cutter and how to build layered stickers. I sketched a jarrito at 2 × 2 inches and planned it in four colors (brown/tan, light blue, dark blue and white), separated each color into its own cut layer in the cutting software, assembled the full design digitally, then cut and layered the vinyl by hand into the finished sticker.
3D carve
Placeholder — toolpaths, bit selection, and safe setup for carving a personalized wood nameplate.
Laser cut
My introduction to laser cutting. I designed two cat earrings in Adobe Illustrator, a sitting cat and a hanging cat, then engraved the faces and cut the shapes on the laser cutter from 11.87″ × 11.75″ sheets of cherry, alder, walnut and Baltic birch. I assembled each pair with earring hooks, and the finished earrings were packaged and sold to raise money for the Makers Lab.
Laser cut
A second laser-cutting design for the Makers Lab fundraiser, made with the same process as the cat earrings but cut from pink acrylic instead of wood. I designed the butterflies in Adobe Illustrator, cut them on the laser cutter, and assembled them into earrings to sell for the fundraiser.
