Experience
Senior Product Designer & Engineer
June 2025 - February 2026Vercept AI
Remote (Part Time)
Vercept was acquired by Anthropic in February 2026. At Vercept, I designed and built Vy's desktop experience: the place where people set up AI tasks, follow their progress, and take control when needed.
- Built a modular SwiftUI macOS app with multiple windows, resizable sidebars, and native interactions.
- Created a session service with Combine and async/await so several conversations and tasks could run independently.
- Used prototypes and community feedback to refine the main window, compact view, and task navigation.
- Established MVVM, routing, and service layers to support the growing product.
iOS Engineer
April 2022 - PresentLululemon Athletica
Remote
I worked on lululemon's main shopping app, improving the experience from a campaign link through product discovery, purchase, and order tracking.
- Helped establish Flow in Figma and SwiftUI, bringing shared components into feature delivery.
- Shipped Swift and SwiftUI commerce features with design and product teams, using MVC and MVVM patterns.
- Mentored developers through SwiftUI adoption and reviewed code across the team.
- Built Early Access features spanning services, fraud prevention, deep links, analytics, and animations.
- Used Combine, WidgetKit, async/await, and native animation APIs in the app's interaction work.
- Added unit, integration, and UI tests with XCTest and XCUITest.
Senior Product Manager
April 2024 - May 2025Mozaic.io
Chicago, IL
Mozaic helps creators divide and pay out shared earnings. I led its product roadmap, working through the payment rules, reporting needs, and day-to-day decisions behind that simple promise.
- Owned prioritization and feature delivery across creator and business experiences.
- Used customer research, A/B tests, product behavior, and transaction data to guide onboarding and retention work.
- Worked with design, engineering, and data teams to improve the mobile experience.
- Architected an MCP framework for agents specializing in splits, payments, and financial insights.
- Partnered with engineering on fraud detection, payment recommendations, automated reporting, and AI-assisted experimentation.
Founder/CEO
April 2022 - July 2023DesignCar (Porsche Digital Spinout)
San Jose, CA
I founded DesignCar as a Porsche Digital spinout: a mobile game where players design vehicles, enter challenges, and vote on each other's work. The venture also gave automotive partners a way to learn about design preferences.
- Raised more than $3M and led a team of 15+ across design, product, and engineering.
- Grew the game from zero to 300K+ downloads in under six months, with paid acquisition below $1 per install.
- Established licensing with Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Volkswagen, Jaguar, Land Rover, Honda, Nissan, Acura, and other manufacturers.
- Built sponsorship and product-placement partnerships with BBS, Turo, Porsche Drive, Le Car, Rally, and others.
- Explored NFT mechanics and their possible role in the game's economy.
Senior Product Manager
Jul 2019 - April 2022Porsche Digital
San Jose, CA
As an entrepreneur-in-residence at Porsche Digital, I looked for businesses the company could build beyond its core automotive offering. The work covered research, market validation, investment cases, and leading teams into delivery.
- Raised more than $7M for new digital products and services.
- Identified opportunities in health and wellness, media and entertainment, financial technology, and NFTs.
- Built market evidence and business cases for investment decisions.
- Led researchers, designers, and engineers from early concepts through MVPs and market launch.
- Owned roadmaps, success measures, and stakeholder expectations for the products I led.
Business Designer & Strategist
Jan 2016 - June 2019Fjord - Design and Innovation from Accenture Interactive
Chicago, IL
At Fjord, I moved from designing services to helping clients decide which services and businesses to build. I brought customer research into strategy, then worked with teams to turn that direction into a plan.
- Led workshops, stakeholder interviews, research synthesis, and business design work.
- Developed roadmaps, experience visions, and measures for judging product progress.
- Managed client and partner relationships and connected project decisions with the wider organization.
- Coached designers on business design and supported project and account development.
Service & Interaction Designer
Jan 2014 - Jan 2016Fjord - Design and Innovation from Accenture Interactive
Chicago, IL
My early work at Fjord followed people through the services they used, then used what we learned to design better interactions. I worked from interviews and journey maps through wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design.
- Conducted and synthesized user research to shape concepts and interaction decisions.
- Led workshops, interviews, journey mapping, and service blueprinting.
- Designed wireframes, prototypes, and design-system patterns, explaining the business and technical choices behind them.
- Presented research and design work to clients and helped organize studio and community events.
IT Business Analyst
Jun 2013 - Jan 2014Sidley Austin
Chicago, IL
Senior Product Analyst
Jun 2011 - Jun 2013TriPoints Consulting
Chicago, IL