Once upon a time, my ceramics were hype 🍵

A short stint due to a company restructure.

Creative direction for brand, messaging, and product strategy.

First hire & designer at threads. My role went from leading product to evolving as a hybrid design manager. We built out www, iOS, and Android as a unit. Additionally worked on brand & creative direction, as well as working with operations closely in DEI initiatives.

Design for machine learning tools for AR Studio and Speech.

I get asked a lot why I worked at so many start ups in short stints (~a year or less) instead of going into a large company earlier in my career. I loved working with small teams and many industries. However, being the first designer or founding designer for many — there's tech debt and navigating shortsighted infrastructure decisions optimized for testing.

You move consistently at a pace mimicking hackathons that lead to burnout or repetition that leads to work injuries.