About
I design and build software.
Work Experience
Started by building innovative, proprietary tools to help internal Netflix teams generate, negotiate, manage, and report on entertainment content. Now working on foundational system design for messaging Netflix consumers.
Helping designers and businesses find the best in each other through design interviewing prep, coaching, and community.
As the first design hire at Gem, I was tasked with introducing the function of design into the organization. Today I spend time defining and leading the product design process, team, and strategy for Gem. Overseeing design across the entire organization to ensure consistent, measurable design impact.
• Shipped a comprehensive brand refresh of the company in first year.
• Established all design recruiting, processes, and benchmarks for Gem.
• Led production of internal design system.
• Founded and scaled the Gem design team from zero, including UX research.
Helped lead design for the future of autonomous transportation with Lyft's Level 5. Was responsible for product strategy, defining metrics and objectives, producing interaction and visual designs, high-fidelity prototyping (including 3D environments and tooling), as well as user research.
Helped lead mobile platform design across all of Atlassian, to build products which propel the future of teamwork anywhere you go.
Worked with a diverse, multi-faceted team of designers, strategists, engineers, and researchers to create products that make the world more open and connected.
I began working at CLEARLINK as a Content Strategy Director, leading a building team to design and develop world-class content for large national brands.
Projects
Learn what it takes to shine in design interviews.
After more than 20 years in design—including working for companies like Meta, Netflix, Lyft, Atlassian, and more—I wrote this book to help designers everywhere.
With the book, you'll discover strategies to communicate well, tell a compelling story, and ace your next design interview.
No matter who you are, what industry you are in, where you are in the world, how you learn best, or where you are in your career journey, this guide has something for you.
Side Projects
A Mac status bar app for logging daily activities, your responses to them, and analyzing trends.
Center is a plain and elegantly designed meditation timer for your phone. No unnecessary voiceover, music, or lessons. Just you and your mind, the way meditation was meant to be.
Snap a photo, highlight text in it, save and share. Just like that.
The most fun creative brain games for both kids and adults!
What better way to pass the time on-the-go, in the classroom, or at home, than with games that exercise your brain? Brainbean has 8 unique games perfect for ages 10 to 110. Puzzles, memory games, drawing challenges, and other educational games
One of the #1 creative app for all writers. Open to write and follow the prompt suggestions, it's that easy.
Speaking
Instinct plays a major part in any creative endeavor, but what about preparation and luck? Whether you’re a photographer looking to capture the perfect moment, an artist hoping to encapsulate a fleeting feeling, or a designer working to recognize a powerful opportunity, it’s always a juggling act.
Writing
What does a modern interview process look like for digital designers? Design leaders building their design team, and individual designers looking to join one, can get incredible value from knowing what a typical interview process looks like today.
How do you know what design's impact is on the product you're building? Even if you could measure design, how do you identify what parts of the product experience are worth measuring in the first place?
What does a modern interview process look like for digital designers? Design leaders building their design team, and individual designers looking to join one, can get incredible value from knowing what a typical interview process looks like today.
"If you want to be a better contributor to the human condition, you have to understand that the most powerful thing you can be is yourself." — James Victore
The answer is often: to an entirely different role.
This is an unfortunate reality playing out in product companies today, where after a few years those in IC—or “individual contributor”—roles find themselves seemingly stuck.