Designed internal / portfolio company tools and products.
Designed internal / investment firm tools and products.

• Acquired 2018 by Cornerstone OnDemand CSOD -

Workpop is like LinkedIn for the "blue-collar" workforce.

I worked with the Workpop team for ~10 weeks on a variety of design, user experience and user interface challenges. We created 2 entirely new products together, redesigned the web application and gave new tools & better interfaces to both employers and candidates. These tools and upgrades make the experience of finding a great job/great employees easy and enjoyable.

• SPAC 2021 OAKS -

Designed Acorns first set of marketing / landing pages.
Designed Acorns first web app.

Ranked best Mobile App in 2020 by BMA for the app I designed - Dosh.

During black friday Dosh was the #1 app in the entire app store across all apps (outranking Amazon, Walmart and many other long-time leaders on Black Friday)

Awarded an "Essential Apps" award by Apple for the Authy app. I designed Authy's branding, websites and app before they were acquired by Twilio.

I designed the Ferris application (iTunes Link itunes.apple.com/us/app/ferris.…). It received Best New Apps award from Apple as well as reaching top 50 status in the Photo Video category in the App Store.

This award honours the best online portfolio (standalone site or using platforms like Behance, Cargo or Dribbble) by a designer or developer.

An application I designed for Contrast Apps was selected as one of the best new apps in early December 2014.

Ranked #28 on a list of the Top 75 Designers in technology by Business Insider / Forbes.

Led product for our consumer mobile app. I guide the improvement and success of our apps through user-centricity, metrics and analytics oriented results, and meaningful feature creation and iteration.

Additionally as the Vice President of User Experience and Design I built and managed a team of designers on both the product design and marketing/communications design disciplines. The design spectrum at Dosh included 3 products on multiple platforms, a cross-platform design system and an extensive marketing machine that had high quality, scalable design throughout.

I mentored and guided our design team through tooling, tracking and efficiencies, building and maintaining our design systems and discovery (user testing and research).

I also individually contributed to our software product design, ran usability and research studies and occasionally designed for marketing/communications.

• Dollar Shave Club Acquired by Unilever UL -
• DogVacay Acquired by Rover ROVR -
• HelloSociety Acquired by The New York Times NYT -
• Famebit Acquired by Google GOOG -

Designed the logo.
Also focused on two primary things at Science:

1 - Advising and Designing with over 30 portfolio companies:
I shared my design experience and background with multiple portfolio companies. I advised them on design problems, advised when and whom to hire and did design/ui/ux work for some of the portfolio companies.

Contributed to Dollar Shave Club (Acquired $1B), Delico.us, HelloSociety (Acquired), FameBit (Acquired), DogVacay (Acquired/SPAC) and many more.

2 - Creating, prototyping and deploying new products within Science:
Sparked by everyone from the product team, partners, interns or anyone with a great idea, I created new products and experiences within Science. Sometimes it was an internal AI & sentiment engine interface, sometimes it was a poster to share an idea within the company. I created a variety of things internally at Science.

• Acquired 2012 by Apple AAPL -

Built a design team of with design backgrounds from Nike, AOL and more.
A high profile social media company attempted to acquire my design team (specifically the design team) in early 2012 -Color declined to sell.

Post-Color designers joined the iOS team at Apple and product design roles at Facebook, Google, Dropbox and Instagram.

Successfully fostered a tighter relationship between design and engineering following a difficult initial launch (I joined after the infamous launch in an effort to reconnect design and dev).

Expanded company disciplines in design beyond visual design and mobile UI design into the following areas: mixed medium feature-parity-driven UX, video and photographic production, icon design, graphic/traditional print media design and more.

• IPO 2016 TWLO -

Designed the logo.
Redesigned website landing page interface, increasing signup conversion and users by 400%.

Designed internal dashboards, UI and documentation sites.

Unified branding throughout the company, resulting in VC confidence and a $3.8M funding round. Designed, Wire-framed, and created interactions for OpenVBX, an open source Google Voice for businesses.