About
I've spent fifteen years leading design in places where the product was genuinely hard to understand — enterprise workflow automation, payments and embedded finance, consumer banking, avatar-based social platforms — and where somebody had to make it comprehensible to a person with a job to do.
I currently lead UX and AI product strategy at Quickbase, where my organization is 15+ people across product design, UX research, content design, and AI product strategy, including four managers. Before that I led design at Plastiq, Credit Sesame, IMVU, and Tango.
I care most about two things. The first is craft that survives contact with a roadmap — design systems, review cadences, and a bar that holds when the deadline is real. The second is growing designers. I've taken people from internship to Senior and promoted several into management, which is the part of the job I'd least like to give up.
Leadership
- Quickbase
- 15+ organization, 4 managers. Product design, UX research, content design, AI product strategy
- Plastiq
- 10+ organization, 2 managers. Product design, design technology, marketing design
- Credit Sesame
- 10+ organization, 2 managers. Stood up the research function
- IMVU
- 12 direct reports across 3D social, mobile, creator tools, virtual economy
- Tango
- First full-time people leadership role; promoted from Principal Designer to Director
Also
- MBA and Master of Design Strategy, California College of the Arts
- BA, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
- Former #1 Design Writer on Medium — medium.com/@dtls
- Designer-in-Residence at Highway 1 (PCH), General Assembly, Galvanize, and Coding Dojo
- Angel investor and advisor across AI, healthtech, fintech, and consumer
- 2 allowed patents and 35+ provisional filings in AI video and spatial camera systems