Android Auto. Spent 40% of my time arguing with the worst PM i ever worked with, 20% managing & coaching amazing designers, and 40% on the inefficient overhead of simply working at google.It's wild to see ideas we talked about in 2015 finally coming out in 2020. But they happened.

Merchant Payments & Billing (incl. Google Wallet, Instant Buy, and the systems that power Adwords billing). Our team led what is now Google Pay, but at the time they really, honest to goodness, called it "Pay By Face."

Upthere was a cloud storage startup (founded by engineering legend Bertrand Serlet) that had some groundbreaking ideas in file storage systems for the mobile age, but then decided to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Quartz Composer prototypes of software nobody wanted to use to put "files in the sky." My responsibilities included design, management, marketing, contributing to product vision, trying to explain to executives that there were things called "Dropbox" and "Facebook" that already solved the problems they believed existed, staring at the floor in disbelief, and eventually interviewing with Google for a new job.

• Made things easier for users and verified this through analytics. • Storyboarded and architected information for upcoming game(s) • Watched a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies and frequently lost at Starcraft.• Learned that Ge Wang is a genius and amazing person.

• Led creation, product specification, design, customer research, and production of Mint's iPhone and Android applications, and future directions in tablet-based apps. • Co-managed partner relationships with Mint's business development team, including putting Mint in every Apple retail store iPhone demo.• Routinely walked out of meetings at Intuit because they were useless.• Took a ton of professional development courses at Intuit because they were world-class and changed my life forever. Spiral dynamics, anyone? Next level stuff.

I led user experience and design for our industry-leading personal finance application, managing a team of incredibly talented visual interface and interaction designers. I spent my day in tasks ranging from high-level, long-term strategic design planning to low-level prototyping, photoshop work, and HTML/CSS coding. I designed products and features that don't need manuals, that don't need help text, and that help people achieve things in life, not use software because we tell them to. When we fell short, I studied why customers find things difficult, and how we could make life easier for them. The CEO of Mint has endorsed me as "the most customer-centric person in the organization." I dedicated my attention to shaping the future of personal finance management, planning, and goal-setting towards a simple, painless workflow that helps people take control of their financial lives, get out of debt, make better decisions with their money, and trust Mint to help them get there.

As a musician (read: i turn knobs and move sliders), I am occasionally consulted by companies whose products I love. That has included Apogee Electronics, Studio Electronics, Alesis, Jomox, DestroyFX, Sony, ValhallaDSP, and others I can't remember anymore since it's been 20+ years of this. Not currently doing this, so please don't reach out unless we already know each-other.

First designer. Left once I figured out what was going on. Elizabeth told me to quit "with integrity." I didn't. Buy John Carreyrou's book, "Bad Blood", if you want to know more about my experience here.

• Created influential prototypes for next-generation professional applications and brought rapid prototyping to the Pro Apps team. • Managed codebase and content for Motion 3 (part of Final Cut Studio) • Fixed bugs in Aperture gallery templates • Created internal project content management system

• Designed and engineered UI for many product pages for Apple's diverse product line, ranging from iPods to operating systems. • Created Apple's first AJAX/JavaScript animation library • Led the transition of apple.com from static HTML to dynamic, AJAX-driven interactions. • Created OS X Widgets for Apple Retail• Wore jncos to my job interview and landed it. Let that be a lesson to you.

• Project managed, supervised and scheduled production between design, QA and research departments, oversaw print outsourcing and publication, maintained relationships with vendors and contractors. • Produced and designed technical publications for industry-leading building cost estimation service. Production duties included data formatting, style guide maintenance, and pre-print production (with Acrobat workflow) for monthly, quarterly, and yearly books and brochures.• Chickened out of firing a bad employee and left it up to my manager, who was so frustrated with me that I never did it again and learned a valuable lesson from this.• Spent months filling most of my day texting my (now) wife using T9 input on a 2002 cellphone and then doing a day's worth of normal person work in 2 hours.

Fired for industrial espionage, which remains one of the finest accomplishments in my career and provides endless entertainment in ice-breaker situations. Security guards, interrogation, the works. Amazing day I was laughing about then and laugh about now. Helped make me who I am today, etc. Technically I was a freelance graphic designer here, but I don't make the rules.

Lead & team designer on A-list entertainment sites for Fox, Miramax, MGM, and other movie studios. Duties included information design, web programming (Flash ActionScript & DHTML), original artwork and interface design. I got to work on SpyKids and ghost write music for Giorgio Moroder — who wouldn't love that?I got fired for being a mouthy disrespectful dumbass.

Produced and art directed online music/culture magazine, in addition to managing and producing interactive flash features and animations for the site itself. Also helped orchestrate global site redesign, including visual and informational restructuring. Sadly, a casualty of Napster making MP3s free, we closed up shop. But it was incredible.

• Constructed and designed websites, interfaces, promotional print material, and posters for Sony and its properties. Duties ranged from original graphic composition and illustration to back-end programming. • Performed an integral role in the launch and design of Sony's first community site, which served as the model for Screenblast, in addition to designing movie sites (e.g. Big Daddy, 8mm) and television sites (e.g., Days of our Lives, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, Dawson's Creek, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy).