My mission: to create interfaces and experiences that aim to unify, inspire and harness our collective spirits and shared knowledge. I design and develop clean, commented architectures and interfaces utilizing: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, D3, React, Figma, jQuery, Processing, HTML/CSS, Web2.0 APIs, Adobe tools.

2020 — 2022DataRobotPrincipal UX Designer

2020 — 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Created Figma designs for DataPrep and Machine Learning applications.

Worked with Design and Product teams to brainstorm features and solutions.

Selected R&D coding/design projects:

3D visualization of the data flowing through the DataRobot system.

Designed graph (DAG) framework ('graphkit').

Utilized graphkit and Python to visualize DAG structure of Jupyter notebook cells.

[Figma, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, yWorks, three.js, Python, React]

2012 — 2020PaxataLead UI/UX Engineer, Designer and Data Visualizer

2012 — 2020

Redwood City, California, United States

Responsible for the look-and-feel of the Paxata application.

Designed and coded the UI for the popular Filtergrams™ (filtering histograms) and the visualization-infused data grid, as well as other aspects of the system.

Developed patterns that became industry-standard concepts across dataprep offerings from subsequent vendors.

Researched and prototyped myriad features that were ultimately not integrated (data quality, etc).

Paxata is the industry's first self-service Adaptive Data Preparation™ platform that lets business analysts rapidly connect, explore, transform and combine data with the same freedom they are used to in their analytic discovery.

(Paxata was acquired by DataRobot in 2020.)

[D3, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, AngularJS]

2010 — 2011Tidemark Systems, Inc.Lead UI/UX Architect

2010 — 2011

Researched and developed UI and visualization techniques for advancing the state-of-the-art in BI (Business Intelligence), and business software in general. Developed the look-and-feel of the Proferi web application, developed the initial prototypes and client UI framework, created a generic visualization architecture, and co-developed a set of general patterns / Information Architecture to be reused as the platform continues to expand.

[JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SproutCore]

2007 — 2008SproutFlex/Flash/R&D Developer

2007 — 2008

R&D Developer on one of the most advanced Flex applications to date. Created modular components for the Sprout system, investigated and implemented 3rd-party services into the Sprout framework, and prototyped new and novel enhancements to the core platform.

[Flex, ActionScript, Flash, UI, architecture, 'web-2.0' APIs]

2007 — 2007GroovrDjango and Flash Hacker

2007 — 2007

Assisted Groovr in developing the site.

[Flash, Django, Python, HTML/CSS, UI]