About me

Turtle has touched every major initiative at Driveway — including a ground-up redesign of a high-volume automotive e-commerce checkout experience, a customer loyalty and retention platform serving hundreds of dealership locations nationwide, and now a large-scale Salesforce implementation — and in each case she brought the same combination of craft excellence and delivery instincts that is genuinely rare. Whether she was designing key flows herself, guiding junior designers, or directing outside talent, the output was always exceptional and always on time. She helped reshape how design and product worked together at Lithia, and the standards she set became the bar for the entire org.

Matt Murray, Director of Product @ Lithia & Driveway

I genuinely like what I do for a living. I care about quality, not just in the product, but in how I show up to everything. How you do one thing is how you do everything. The document another department asked for gets the same care as the feature stakeholders are itching to ship.

I show up. I'm responsive. I hold myself accountable. I'm curious, I love to learn, and I'll happily philosophize about design systems or whether anything on this earth can be considered unnatural for longer than most people want to. Outside of work you'll find me under the giant pepper tree in my backyard, teaching yoga, or out on San Diego's trails with my dog.

I've been designing Saas software applications for a long time across SwitchCase, Gallus Golf, and Lithia. What I think makes the difference isn't the craft, it's the care. For the work, for the people around it, and for doing things right even when no one's watching.

When joining a new team, Turtle seamlessly integrates into existing dynamics, showing respect and consideration for the team's current processes while providing her expertise. Her approach ensures that everyone's skills are utilized effectively and that new perspectives are welcomed. Turtle also has a remarkable ability to make people feel valued.

Ellie Angell, Sr. Product Designer @ Driveway