Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
A member of Mozilla New Products. Exploring a suite of new applications focused on solopreneurs and small business owners. Workflows include AI where it can provide meaningful assistance.
2019 — 2025
Oakland, CA
Specializing in developing complex and meaningful interactive experiences for web and mobile applications. Currently serving Bay Area startup and remote clients in healthcare, data visualization, and financial services.
Designed and shipped Solo, an AI website creation tool for Mozilla. Websites can be created from a few simple inputs with assistance from AI. Sites can be further customized with simple, meaningful visual editing tools. Currently exploring a second product for the Mozilla New Products division that incorporates voice input and AI assistance.
Delivered brand and product design services to a healthcare software startup building an "operating system" that enables development groups to innovate at scale while connecting new and legacy healthcare systems. A broad range of product concepts were developed, including: care-team and patient care management, Workplace safety hardware/software solutions, and a design-system for their OS components. Brand design work included visual storytelling for their core marketing presentations, with branded technical diagrams and illustrations.
For Lentil AI, designed two future-of-work products to facilitate collaboration and remove communication barriers for teams transitioning to remote work. LoopTeam was focused on bringing 1-click teleconferencing to working groups, along with transcript, and AI driven detection for content keywords or mentions. A second product, Pulse shared status and presence information to Slack to create transparency for workplace interactions, with a strong balance of user controlled privacy.
Product and Brand design for a Financial services startup, Tallyfor, providing a smart conduit between the existing software suites for business accounting and tax accounting with a dramatic effect on tax preparation and planning efficiency.
2008 — 2019
2008 — 2019
Oakland, CA
Co-founded a boutique design services group serving startup and enterprise clients.
Consulted for visual and product design for several Intel Corp. projects to conceive of and develop software applications for new technologies including: Multi-array camera, Depth sensing camera, Convertible laptop/tablet, Augmented reality, and Virtual Reality. Live VR sample products were developed for medical education, automotive, simulation, design, and healthcare applications.
Served startup clients with full service offering including: branding/identity, design strategy, and product design. mLab saw successful acquisition by MongoDB. mFoundry was acquired by FIS. Zencoder was acquired by Brightcove.
Created branding and full-site visual design for Gust.com portals connecting entrepreneurs to investors, and collecting resources for events, office space, and government grant resources. Developed for New York City, Mayor of London and GIST (U.S. Department of State)
2004 — 2011
2004 — 2011
Oakland,CA
Personal consulting services.
Consulting Visual Design lead for Time Inc. website full redesigns: Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, InStyle, Life, and others. Additional clients included startups ImageChef and OrgPlus, who both achieved successful exits.
2000 — 2003
2000 — 2003
Concept designs used to secure contracts with Sony and Nike. UX and visual design support to integrate Viewpoint's 3d and other advanced visualization technologies into AOL platform and services.
Education
Rhode Island School of Design