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

I've taught special education for 3+ years — and I still do. Nights and weekends, I 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 run my own products and a small client practice. SlickSessions ships new features every week. SlickLeads, the lead engine I designed and built for my own pipeline, finds my next clients from public records while I sleep. Local businesses hire me for fixed-price websites that launch in about two weeks, and I design product interfaces for agency clients. I hold three Anthropic Claude certifications and I'm working toward the next one. Accessibility, neurodivergent-inclusive design, and shipping working software in days not quarters: that's the bar I hold every project to.