Research · Decisions · Outcomes

Case Studies

How I approach real problems: the research conducted, decisions made, tradeoffs navigated, and outcomes delivered. Federal modernization, financial services, enterprise analytics, and AI-assisted product design.

Selected work

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Financial Services

Capitol Credit Card Builder Program

Designing a secured credit card onboarding flow for people who have every reason to distrust financial systems. This case study shows how trust is engineered — answering three different users' unspoken questions before they become reasons to quit.

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Enterprise Analytics

Dashboard Export Functionality

The Export Ecosystem engagement transformed a broken 8-click crypto export flow into an institutional-grade, compliance-ready framework — cutting average time-to-export by ~40%, boosting first-try success to 85%, and turning a critical Series-A risk into a proof of product maturity.

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Federal · Strategy

SSA Mobile Infrastructure: Modernization

Reframes UX as architecture — surfacing four hard constraints responsive web could never solve and building the evidence-backed, native-first strategy that delivers a projected 240% ROI, $85M in savings, and accessible mobile services for 70M beneficiaries.

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Federal · Compliance

SSA Mobile Wage Reporting — Designing for Trust Under Compliance Pressure

Turned a regulatory risk into a trust feature — designing a Login.gov-based authentication flow that preserves adoption, targets a 40% abandonment reduction, and keeps five-minute wage reporting viable for 70M beneficiaries.

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AI-Augmented UX

Project StarJammer — Satellite & Orbital Tracking App

A four-week, end-to-end UX experiment proving AI can radically and ethically accelerate discovery-to-handoff without replacing human judgment — synthesizing data from 12 personas into persona-aware UI modes and a full WCAG 2.2-compliant design system on a startup timeline.

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