About me, personally and professionally.
Personal Biography #
I’m ever curious. Always looking for connections, always trying something new.
In my spare time, I tinker with restoring old iPods and making art with skulls (not real ones, which would be weird). I absolutely adore typography and have designed multiple typefaces, including Cosmata and Uptown Sans. I read a lot.
I call Joshua Tree home, but split time between there and Los Angeles.
Professional Biography #
I’m not like other design leaders.
My ideal day isn’t sitting in strategy meetings all day, managing managers. Instead, I find joy in working at both the strategic tactical level. Some call it a player-coach, I call it my happy place.
Since starting my career, I’ve built high-performing, deeply collaborative design teams from scratch and designed 5-star mobile apps. Being a leader who loves being hands-on and practicing my craft gives me my edge.
I work with companies in healthcare, fintech, and other consumer-facing industries. My most rewarding projects are those which help people lead better lives through improving their mental and physical health.
I’ve managed directly for over 5 years of management and have over 15 years experience in practicing design. My start came from being a visual artist that created websites for bands.
My values are important, and they’ll enrich both your product and company:
- Being responsible for what we put into the world
- Being principle-driven, not process-shackled
- Kindness, fairness, and equity
- Talking it out
I’m currently writing a book called “We Need to Talk: How to Have Hard Conversations with Anyone” for Rosenfeld Media.
Talk to me if you want to discuss:
- Getting away from a stale, process-driven culture into a thoughtful, human-centered one
- Taking a concept to validated idea in (next to) no time
- How to be the best, most supportive leader you can to your team
- How to get people to care about accessibility
- Exactly how annoyed to get when a designer detaches a component in Figma
- Looking for my resume? Here you go.