I’m a good natured, San Francisco-based designer, prototyper and educator with twenty years’ experience working on digital and physical products.
I work as an IC and hands-on manager on the people, systems, and interactions that allow us to design products that are meaningful.
Current status:
Contracting in the US
Interviewing for design roles in Barcelona for Q3 ‘25 — Preference for local companies, or US companies working predominantly EST hours.
Zipline
2025
Drone delivery — consumer experience
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Lead the design of consumer-facing app for Zipline, a drone delivery service launching in the U.S.
Launching the service necessitated we navigate signifcant ambiguity in technical, legal, timeline and user perception domans
Collaborated with brand and marketing to address user concerns around safety and trust — shaping a product experience where a robot delivering a package into your backyard feels like the new normal.RoleDesigner / acting head of design
Launching the service necessitated we navigate signifcant ambiguity in technical, legal, timeline and user perception domans
Collaborated with brand and marketing to address user concerns around safety and trust — shaping a product experience where a robot delivering a package into your backyard feels like the new normal.RoleDesigner / acting head of design
Zipline
2025
Drone delivery — partner ecosystem
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Zipline’s drone delivery service is an ecosystem of consumer- and partner-facing tools. I designed the first version of the experience and defined the shape of the broader system.
As I built out the design team, I hired my first designer to lead the partner experience and continued supporting the work through physical and digital prototyping.
RoleDesigner / acting head of design
As I built out the design team, I hired my first designer to lead the partner experience and continued supporting the work through physical and digital prototyping.
RoleDesigner / acting head of design
Cruise
2021
AI developer tools ecosystem
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I worked on a team building tools for AI developers training self-driving cars. This tool visualizes the lifecycle of code through various stages of testing, showing which tools are used at each step and by whom.
It pulls in survey data to give a heatmap of how our products are performing with our users.
Having coneived the product I worked as both product and design lead
RoleDesign & product lead
It pulls in survey data to give a heatmap of how our products are performing with our users.
Having coneived the product I worked as both product and design lead
RoleDesign & product lead
Cruise
2022
AI developer tools
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Cruise's AI developers write code to enable autonomous vehicles to drive.
They use an ecosystem of third party and home-grown products to write and test their code.
Our team was tasked with adding human-in-the-loop automation to code testing, and leveraging modules from around the ecosystem to deliver this feature.
We also worked on Webviz, a tool for simulating the vehicle’s driving capacity and visualizing the sensor data
RoleStaff product designer
They use an ecosystem of third party and home-grown products to write and test their code.
Our team was tasked with adding human-in-the-loop automation to code testing, and leveraging modules from around the ecosystem to deliver this feature.
We also worked on Webviz, a tool for simulating the vehicle’s driving capacity and visualizing the sensor data
RoleStaff product designer
Front
2023
Customer support product overhaul
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Collaborated with counterparts in Product, Engineering, Design, Sales and Customer Success on simplifying the product to align with the company’s new direction — and to address engineering and design debt.
Partnered with team to stage feature deprecation and migration for existing users.
RoleStaff product designer, player-coach manager
Partnered with team to stage feature deprecation and migration for existing users.
RoleStaff product designer, player-coach manager
Google / Nest
2025
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Nest Wifi came with a microphone and speaker and was Google’s first physical manifestation of Assitant. Our team prototyped our way to creating a design language for the device’s lighting patterns.
RoleInteraction designer, prototyper, project lead
RoleInteraction designer, prototyper, project lead
Method / IXDA
2025
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In 2015, smart devices were making their way into our homes. Light and sound were the main materials to communnicate with, but there wasn’t any tooling or established patterns to design with.
For the IXDA design conference we created a tool to help people design interactions using light and sound.
On this project I worked with and formed a tight bond with two of favorite designers: Flavio Carvalho (branding, visual, industrial desig) and Tim Meador (design technologist).
RoleInteraction designer, prototyper, project lead
For the IXDA design conference we created a tool to help people design interactions using light and sound.
On this project I worked with and formed a tight bond with two of favorite designers: Flavio Carvalho (branding, visual, industrial desig) and Tim Meador (design technologist).
RoleInteraction designer, prototyper, project lead