I've spent the balance of my professional life in the entrepreneurial, small company trenches, but stints in large company environments have helped frame and broaden my experience and problem-tackling approach.- Each venture-backed startup I have co-founded and for which I’ve led product design has featured positive ROI for investors, with a combined ~$185M in closing value across 3 exits to Google, Uber, and 724 Solutions.- At Google, All three of the UX design direct reports I managed as a Staff Designer were promoted during my management tenure; promotion required managers to advocate on behalf of employees for a committee, not make the final decision.- At Google, I partnered with a peer designer to develop an “App Marketplace” prototype for Google search and won an internal business plan competition, presenting to Larry, Sergey, and Eric Schmidt. This vision lives on, in part, as the Google Workspace Marketplace.- At Google, I shared part of a Founders Award for the design of a keyword suggestion tool called QueST that helped AdWords advertisers discover new placements for more effective cost-per-click ads.- Won “Early Career” category in the 2009 University of Washington Diamond Awards. This award is given annually to ~5 top College of Engineering alumni “who have made significant contributions to the field of engineering.”- At AngelList, I remixed and repurposed a set of existing tools to create a new investor screening and education experience; the result mapped accredited investor check size to their experience and net worth more accurately, protecting less experienced investors from overweighting risky early stage private equity in their portfolios.- At Spare 5, I led the creative partnership with an outside branding agency to successfully rebrand the company as “Mighty AI” and reposition our gig economy app as “Spare 5”. Once completed in 2017, this tricky shift made it clear to our customers that they were buying SaaS software from an AI-first enterprise company while preserving our consumer app experience’s popular identity.- At every company and on every team I’ve been a part of, I’ve upheld sets of values that we hire, debate and discuss, deliver, and even fire by. At Mighty AI and Rebellion Defense I helped co-author the company values statements. In my work, words are the single greatest output, but actions prove whether they truly matter.