Hi, I’m Mike — a UX design lead with over ten years of experience across news media, agency work, and enterprise product design.
My career has been shaped by two things that drove me in the same direction. I came to design systems through one door and accessibility through another, and they just happened to open into the same room.
I came to design systems by chance, stepping in to backfill for a colleague on a leave — a temporary assignment that turned out to be anything but. The work clicked in a way I
hadn’t anticipated, and when my colleague returned I stayed on the project. What started as a temporary assignment ended up reshaping the rest of my career.
I came to accessibility through necessity, leading a major overhaul of an enterprise design system that had quietly accumulated compliance risk across global markets. That project changed how I think about design. Not as the craft of making things look right, but as the discipline of making things work for everyone, regardless of ability, device, or context.
For the past eight and a half years I’ve been a UX design lead and manager at Johnson & Johnson, working across multiple organizations and sectors. More recently I spent time inside a large-scale design system that supports multiple brands across a regulated industry. The work was equal parts design craft, cross-functional leadership, and organizational advocacy — pushing for accessibility and systems thinking to be shared responsibilities, not specialties that live in one person’s lane.
That’s the kind of work I’m looking to continue to do more of.
Outside of work, I’m a dad to two very active kids and a frequent chauffeur to their many activities. I closely follow a few of the local college and pro teams, usually with cautious optimism. I enjoy hands-on DIY projects, discovering music across genres, getting pulled into a great new show, and traveling to new places with my family.