Until last year, I spent eight years as a registered nurse in a busy emergency department — a role that
taught me to stay calm when everything is urgent, communicate clearly with people under extreme
stress, and make sound decisions with incomplete information. I loved the clinical work, but I kept
gravitating toward the systems around care: the chaotic schedules, the handoff gaps, the tools that
made skilled clinicians work harder than they needed to. That curiosity eventually became a career
decision. I left the hospital, taught myself product design, and have spent the past year building
healthcare-focused projects — a nurse handoff app and a patient discharge tracker — both drawn
directly from problems I lived every shift. I am not starting over with nothing. I bring deep domain
knowledge, a bias toward action, and rare fluency in both clinical and technical language. I am
looking for a junior product design role where I can contribute immediately, learn from strong
designers, and build software that makes healthcare work better.
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