I taught myself UX. Then I taught myself to ship.

For 3+ years I taught special education. I drove three hours home each night, opened my laptop at the kitchen table, and worked through the Google UX Design Certificate from scratch. I wrote IEPs by hand on Sundays. I scrolled through generic worksheets that didn't fit my students. Eventually I stopped wishing the better tool existed and started designing it myself.

But designing wasn't shipping. So I started using Claude to build the products. I'd sketch a flow, write a clear brief, and work through every screen, API call, and edge case with Claude until the product was live. Within months, I'd shipped my first solo SaaS — SlickSessions, an AI platform now used by K-12 educators across every grade band, Pre-K through 12th.

Today I'm shipping new SlickSessions features every week, designing for real clients, and currently working through the Anthropic Claude certifications. Looking for a remote Product Designer or Founding Designer role where designers ship the product, not just the file. Accessibility, neurodivergent-inclusive design, and shipping working software in days not quarters — that's the bar I hold every project to.