I'm a product designer who works across the entire stack — from pixels and prototypes to code and strategy. Over the past 10+ years, I've often the first or sole designer at early-stage startups, building products from scratch and scaling them through major growth milestones.

2020 — NowHere & ThereFounder

2020 — Now

Boulder, CO

Here & There focuses on thoughtful writing about the culture of travel and the outdoors, with a mix of personal experience, tech and business insights, industry perspectives, and plain old curiosity.

2024 — 2026PermitFlowLead Product Designer

2024 — 2026

First design hire; owned product design and significant PM responsibilities from pre-Series A through $55M Series B, supporting growth to 75+ employees

Designed AI-first workflows for municipal research, human-in-the-loop review, and interconnected permit requirement data powering customer-facing and internal tools

Built an AI pipeline transforming municipal comments into structured customer insights, reducing manual research effort and improving output consistency

Developed the company’s agentic AI strategy for permit research, shaping how LLMs are applied to complex regulatory data

Contributed directly to the front-end codebase (React, TypeScript, Tailwind) alongside engineering

2023 — 2025Mountain GazetteStaff Writer

2023 — 2025

2021 — 2023Product HuntLead Product Designer

2021 — 2023

Led design for product discovery, UGC surfaces, onboarding, and retention across web and mobile

Redesigned Product Hubs, increasing click-through rate by 32%; rebuilt tagging taxonomy driving significant organic growth

Defined experimentation strategy and success metrics with product and engineering leadership

2018 — 2021The Outbound Collective, Inc.Product Designer

2018 — 2021

Remote

Sole designer owning end-to-end product across web, iOS, and Android

Redesigned the iOS app, improving App Store rating from 3.5 to 4.8 stars and earning 2x features

Built a programmatic SEO strategy that increased organic traffic by 60%; contributed to front-end codebase

Education

UC San Diego

Experience+

Education

BS