About — designer, developer, both

I learned to build so I could design better.

Eight years across UX, UI, and front-end — starting as a web developer and never putting the editor down. Understanding what an interaction costs to build changed what I proposed, how I argued for it, and how much of it survived to production. Design is still the craft. Engineering is what keeps it honest.

Off the clock

Away from the desk.

Mornings start with a coffee lakeside, I find that I work best when I get up early and start my day outside with some sunshine.

I collect vinyl I absolutely don't have shelf space for, spend more time fishing than I should, and plan road trips around diners rather than destinations.

Curiosity is the throughline. The same instinct that makes me take apart an unfamiliar app makes me take the back roads, try the weird item on the menu, and ask one more question than is polite.

It's also, not coincidentally, what makes the research phase my favorite part of the job.

Eight years in, I've learned burnout is a design flaw — and I don't ship flawed systems, including my own, so I absolutely silence the Slack notifications after 5pm so that I can unwind with my family and cook a healthy meal.

Clients and employeers get better decisions from a designer who slept, hiked, fished, cooked a clean meal, and thought about their problem in the shower than they do from one who answered messages at midnight on a Saturday. I love my work and deeply value my team memebers and because of that I take the space and give the space that I do, so that we can all be our very best at work.

Boundaries make better work

The balance isn't a perk. It's the operating system.

Deep-work mornings

The hard design problems get the best hours of the day, and everything else arranges itself around that. It is the single habit most responsible for the quality of the work.

Demo Fridays

Every week closes with something you can click. Progress you can see beats progress you're told about, and it lets a team correct course while correcting is still cheap.

Offline weekends

Rested judgment is the thing being hired. Monday-me is sharper because Sunday-me was on a trail — eight years in, burnout is a design flaw I've stopped shipping.

The work I brag about

One household name, and one I can't even name.

Salesforce

Design at enterprise scale

Contract design and development inside one of the world's largest SaaS ecosystems — where a single pattern decision reaches millions of users. It taught me systems thinking at a scale most designers never get to practice, and how to move fast inside a very big machine.

Mercor Intelligence — lab under NDA

Interface design for a frontier AI lab

I contract in web and digital interface design, frontend development, and advanced model pressure testing for a top frontier AI lab. Work offered only to people with deep, verifiable expertise — and it keeps my own standards razor-sharp.

What I actually do

Design through to production.

UX / UI

UX design
UI design
Product strategy
User research
Information architecture
Journey mapping
Interaction design
User flows
Wireframing
Rapid prototyping
Responsive design

Design systems

Design systems
Component architecture
Reusable patterns
Accessibility
WCAG
Developer handoff
Developer-ready specifications

Front-end

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
TanStack
Component development
Responsive implementation
Git

AI in the workflow

Claude
Claude Code
AI coding agents
Design-to-code workflows
AI-assisted product design
Prompt engineering
Rapid AI prototyping
Advanced Model Pressure Testing

Tools

Figma
Framer
Claude
Midjourney
HeyGen
Notion
TanStack Start
FigJam
Webflow
WordPress
Elementor
Contentful
GitHub
Photoshop
Illustrator
Miro
Jira

From developer to design engineer

Career timeline

Dec 2025 — PresentIndependent ContractorMercor Intelligence · Contract, remote. Web & Interface design, frontend development, and advanced model pressure testing for a top frontier AI lab.
Jan 2025 — PresentUX/UI InstructorPath Unbound · Part-time, remote. Teaching UX/UI, accessibility, responsive design, and product thinking — 1:1 and classes of up to ten.
Feb 2025 — Jan 2026Product Design ManagerNRD Tech LLC · Contract, remote. Led UX and UI across digital healthcare initiatives from discovery through implementation.
Jan 2024 — Dec 2024Senior Product DesignerCampbell Marketing & Communications (Ford Motor Company) · Full-time, remote. Led Mustang Unleashed end-to-end across app, marketing site, and event check-in for Ford Performance.
Oct 2022 — Dec 2023Product Designer + Frontend DeveloperCoin Metrics · Full-time, Boston. Enterprise financial dashboards and data-visualisation tools for institutional crypto clients.
Jul 2021 — Oct 2022Frontend Developer + Web DesignerFidelity Payment Services · Full-time, Brooklyn. Customer-facing fintech products, and the first version of their design system.
Aug 2019 — Nov 2021Frontend Developer, DesignerSalesforce · Contract, Columbus. Reusable React components in the Salesforce Lightning Design System, across four separate contracts.
Feb 2021 — Aug 2021Lead Web Designer + Frontend DeveloperStephen Donnelly & Associates · Full-time, Owego. Design and front-end delivery with heavy project management.
Oct 2018 — Feb 2021Web Designer & Front-End DeveloperFive Star Heating & Cooling Group · Full-time, Columbus. Responsive WordPress sites, UX optimisation, SEO, and performance.

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