README.md

Product designer with 15 years of experience working across web, native mobile, and complex enterprise systems. I've spent most of that time translating ambiguous, messy problems into things that actually make sense to use.

I care about the craft — the thinking behind a decision as much as the pixels in front of it. Good design, to me, is mostly about removing things until what's left is obvious.

After 15 years, a lot is shifting. Not just the tools — the whole way I think about design work. How I research. How I manage a project. How I communicate with engineering. The approaches that worked a few years ago feel like they're being rewritten from the ground up.

I'm in the middle of that now, and honestly it's the most energized I've felt about this work in years. I'm building personalized agents, custom skills, and automated workflows that connect the product side of design directly to engineering — tighter feedback loops, less friction, faster production without sacrificing quality.

The stack is Claude Code, MCP servers, custom APIs, and agentic research and review pipelines that I'm actively wiring together. This portfolio is part of that — built and iterated with the same tools I'm exploring.

I live in Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania — a rural area about an hour outside of Philly. My wife Kate and I have a 2-acre farmhouse that keeps us busy with DIY projects and a garden that's always getting ahead of us.

We share the place with four pugs — Hank (Jug), Sara Lee (Pure), Ralph (Bug), and Russ (Puggle) — and two cats who are unbothered by all of it.

When I'm not at a screen I'm usually outdoors. Hiking, skiing, kayaking, road trips. International travel when I can make it happen — getting somewhere completely unfamiliar is one of the better ways I know to reset.