Lead Product Designer

• Reoriented an unmoored team toward the highest-value thing to build, then led a 3-week sprint across product, design, and dev to transform a rough prototype into a shipped v1, winning a $5M contract and customer raves
• Led hiring process to grow design team from 1 to 3; managed & mentored a more junior designer
• Led comprehensive jobs-to-be-done analysis of the full industrial asset lifecycle, mapping workflows across user types to define product direction for a major platform redesign
• Work across every product team and vertical, from navy to mining to power plants, donning a hard hat to embed with customers on site and rapidly iterate on product direction, design, and code
• Prototype in code and contribute production frontend regularly; choose the fastest, best medium for each situation: sketches, wireframes, writing, loom, prototype
• First product design hire, reporting directly to Head of Product

Lead Product Designer

• First full-time design hire; reported to & collaborated directly with cofounders
• Owned the digital resident experience for America's first car-free neighborhood, from business strategy to eng-ready design specs and my own commits
• Ran strategy, research, and design on marketing & ecommerce websites (e.g. browsing and leasing apartments online)
• Expanded design beyond a screen-based practice into a strategic partner of product and leadership
• Mentored younger colleagues, who found the design education "taught [them] the most in this job"

Senior Product Designer

• Led design and co-led product for Site IQ, a web app for broker teams; product strategy was durable enough that it remains in active use & development
• Self-initiated CBRE Build, a new brand for tech teams within CBRE: led research, design, and pitching, winning approval directly from CEO Bob Sulentic
• Implemented the brand across digital and physical spaces in NYC, Seattle, Texas, and India; reviewed positively on Brand New
• Only design/eng staffer to survive an 80% staff reduction

Founding Designer

• First design hire; collaborated directly with founders and founding engineers
• Owned UX and UI design for Floored's products, from sketch to delivery with engineers
• Created and implemented Floored brand and marketing

Founding Designer

• Designed and engineered a native photo management app in Swift (SwiftUI + UIKit/AppKit) with cross-device sync; not just a prototype but a real app approaching TestFlight
• Interaction design playground: obsessive iteration on core mechanics to arrive at a lightweight workflow that makes sifting for keepers as easy as idly browsing photos
• Used AI as an eng collaborator to go deep on clustering algorithms, building a custom solution to the app's core concept and extending my reach as a designgineer beyond what would be possible for me alone
• Learning project to teach myself Swift and platform APIs from SwiftUI to AppKit, Core Data to VisionKit
• Loving homage to the juicy, high-production-value apps that inspired me to be a designer

• With Quirky's help, created Pivot Power, the iconic flexible power strip that defined the company: millions of units sold from Target to the MOMA Store; Red Dot Design Award; included in the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's permanent collection

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

BA in Graphic Design

2007 - 2011  |  Providence, RI

Brown University

Minor in Computer Science

2008 - 2011  |  Providence, RI

Through RISD's cross-registration program with Brown, and summer courses at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), I earned credits worth a minor in Computer Science.