Joe is the Lead Designer on the Design Systems team at U.S. Bank. Originally from Mankato, he and his wife and 2 girls now call Apple Valley home. In college he taught himself how to code while in design school and although he his career has been geared heavily in design, he has been actively practicing both ever since. It is this space and connection between design and code that draws him to design systems, especially at the scale of a Fortune 500 company like U.S. Bank.