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California, United States

Working with clients to deliver full-stack design, strategic consulting, and brand creative direction.

San Francisco, California, Us

Building the best community for design executive leaders, from Fortune 100s to fast-growing startups

Worked on building crypto-powered equity ownership for the 70% of Americans—and billions worldwide—that can't yet own a piece of their life's work

Global, Oo

Syndicate started with a radical mission to create a more open, free, and fair economy by putting venture capital on chain, changing what gets built, by whom, and for whom. Since then, Syndicate has grown into a powerful developer platform that powers crypto projects for small startups and Fortune 100 companies.Syndicate is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Table Management, Variant, Electric Capital, Delphi Ventures, CoinFund, and 300+ top founders and angels.→ Led foundational design vision as the first employee, architecting multiple crypto investing products from ideation to launch and beyond, leading to over $40M in user deposits and thousands of communities created, all in the first few months after launch→ Led a major pivot and redesign to a developer platform that now powers projects for companies like Nike→ Directly hired and managed a design team of 6 and was closely involved in hiring 20+ more, including senior leadership, growing the company to 35 people→ Led strategy, roadmap, culture, and early company ops like payroll, directly helping close >$28M in series-A funding led by top VCs like a16z, Electric, & Variant

San Francisco, California, Us

Proxy built a product at the intersection of physical spaces, digital identity, and crypto: a way for environments and devices to recognize and adapt to you, as if by magic.→ Led a complete redesign of a fragmented, multi-app ecosystem, unifying everything into a single focused UX→ Overhauled a gridlocked product design process, shipping product for the first time in years→ Co-led a multi-million-dollar multi-agency rebrand, enabling a pivot and acquisition (by Ōura) shortly after

New York, Ny, Us

I was Eight's founding designer and led interdisciplinary design across the company during critical series-C growth and COVID. Led an interdisciplinary design strategy, integrating digital, brand, print, packaging, growth, industrial, and systems design together. Worked cross-functionally with PMs, researchers, analysts, marketers, execs, and more to make design a shared language and competitive advantage.

New York, Ny, Us

Founded and led design for a B2B SaaS HR startup, building a suite of research-backed AI-powered tools to identify and disrupt decisionmaking bias in real time.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Designed experimental, low-interface interactions for Smart Lock, a better way to handle authentication and identity that relies on presence, not passwords. Enhanced user trust and confidence for over a billion MAUs across Google products through improved cross-platform design consistency at sign in/up.

Mountain View, Wy, Us

Led a small team in building an ecommerce app offering photo stories that let users instantly buy the fashion & lifestyle items featured. Grew app to more than 300k MAUs globally.

New York, Ny, Us

Redesigned Quirky’s web & mobile platform to improve community invention submissions, and accelerated growth through email marketing. Designed initial strategy, creative direction, and interactions for GE's new smart oven and Wink, Quirky's new smart home/IoT platform.

New York, New York, Us

Designed product UI, research, and strategy that impacted Bitly and Chartbeat, while they were being incubated in Betaworks.Worked independently on initial product concept, documentation, and research for a product enabling Chartbeat's web analytics to know when events on non-web channels occurred, such as a live TV show airing, so that we could correlate activity between web traffic and those other channels. We investigated ways we could determine the degree to which an increase in web traffic directly related to referral from those other channels.