Thinking through making... • Product & Interaction Design • High Fidelity Prototyping & Functional Proofs-of-Concept (Origami, p5.js, React, vibin, etc.) • Model Training & Inference Workflows (data operations, evals, model pipelines, prompt engineering) • Prototyping AI/ML Applications • Concept Development & Future...

2021 — NowMetaProduct Designer

2021 — Now

AI stuff that barely resembles design 😬: mid- and post-training data pipelines, evals, new tools for prototyping agent coordination, and other weird things that force daily questions about professional identity.

2014 — 2021Self EmployedIndependent Designer & Director

2014 — 2021

Contributed to projects in domains ranging from healthcare to entertainment. Usually embedded in teams for 3-9 months. Some example contributions:

Associate Design Director, frog design

Diabetes emergency experience for Eli Lilly and new home repair service for Progressive

Designer & Prototyper, IDEO

Early definition and prototyping for DIRECTV Now and Facebook Portal

Project Lead, healthmade design

Multiple diabetes management projects for Eli Lilly and Stanford Medicine around physical activity's relationship to blood glucose levels and helping clinicians find insights in insulin data

2019 — 2019RunwayProduct Designer

2019 — 2019

AI creative tooling

2017 — 2019AT&TProduct Designer - Strategic Innovation Group

2017 — 2019

Austin, Texas Area

Team from Big Tomorrow went over to AT&T to build out new group. Drove early AI customer support assistant using intent classifiers.

2015 — 2017Big TomorrowProduct Designer

2015 — 2017

Austin, Texas Area

Connecting neural nets and interface ideas in functional prototypes, reimagining higher education systems with a new AI control layer, and other fun things.

Education

Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

M.A.

University of Vermont

B.A.

Beijing Normal University

Beijing Language and Culture University

Experience+

Education

M.A.

B.A.