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Summary

I help design and create things like startups, websites, apps, songs, and records while sitting right between design and engineering. Nice to meet you!

Experience

ngrok

2023—
Principal Product Designer
Shipping new features like our traffic inspector, and onboarding workflows. Redesigned their documentation while building a new design system.

Boox

2022—2023
Director of UX
Cleaned up all things front-end while building out their end-to-end user experience. Shipped a new marketing website.

Stack Overflow

2017—2022
Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
Shipped a ton of features on Stack Overflow before transitioning to designing, building, and assembling a team to create Stack Overflow’s design system Stacks.

GitHub

2015—2016
Senior Product Designer
Pitched and designed features to help improve GitHub’s product, most notably code review, file uploads, markdown toolbar, and octicons

Hum

2013—
Co-founder
Designed, built, and assembled a team around the world’s best app for songwriting. Featured as a Best New App by Apple.

Adobe

2011—2014
Senior Product Designer

Conceived of Adobe Edge Reflow and designed the entire experience from sketches to final production assets.

Concepted and designed the iPhone version of the Adobe Content Viewer while working directly with publishing clients Condé Nast, Hearst, and Bonnier.

Sevnthsin

2008—2011
Senior Designer

Led a team of designers while planning, concepting, and often developing rich interactive and mobile experiences.

Worked with Target, JCPenney, Scion, AIGA, Rhymesayers, Health Partners, and Minnesota Timberwolves.

Press

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Education

2008

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Bachelor of science in Graphic Design

Patents

2012

Responsive document breakpoints systems and methods

2013

Color selection interface

Skills

Product

UI / UX

Tech & Development

Software

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