I’m an end-to-end Lead Product Designer, with 12+ years experience working for B2B SaaS healthcare startups and consulting for fortune 100 companies across various industries. With a background in industrial design and innovation consulting, I have strong experience in 0-1 product builds, planning and conducting user research, synthesis and product strategy.
I’ve spent the past 5 years as a player/coach Product Design Manager at Kalderos, a series-B healthtech and data analytics company. As the second design hire, I led the design on most of Kalderos’ products, created the initial site architecture and developed their first design system. As a design leader, I created the hiring and onboarding processes, established the working norms of the team and developed the approach to product discovery.
Previously, I worked in Innovation Consulting, at IA Collaborative, as an Industrial Designer and Strategist, advising and guiding Fortune 100 companies in incorporating human-centered design and creative thinking into their business strategy. Highlights include, developing the product strategy for the Sonos Move, and creating a new design language for Leica Biosystems, which can be seen applied to their newest products.
Living in Bozeman, MT, I can generally be found outside, hiking with our pup, fly fishing for trout, skiing and recently learning how to be a good dad to our new daughter.
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
Product Design Manager
2019-Present
Kalderos
Bozeman, MT (Remote)
Contract Industrial Designer & Strategist
2018-2019
Self-Employed
Chicago, IL
Senior Industrial Designer
2011-2017
IA Collaborative
Chicago, IL
Structural Packaging Designer
Summer 2008
FutureBrand
London, UK
MA Innovation Design Engineering
2008-2011
Royal College of Art
London, UK
MSC Innovation Design Engineering
2008-2011
Imperial College London
London, UK
BS Mechanical Engineering
2002-2006
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
CAPABILITIES
Product Design
Product Strategy
Discovery & User Research
Workshop Facilitation
Human-centered Design
Design Systems
Design Thinking
0→1 Product Builds
Team Building & Mentoring
DesignOps
WORKSHOPS, TALKS
& ENGAGEMENT
Living as a Leader
08.2022 - 05.2023
Leadership training (sponsored by Kalderos)
User Experience Circuit
08.2018
General Assembly
Designed Objects 1 Final Critique
2018
School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Design Strategy Workshop
2017
Northwestern Kellogg School
of Management, Evanston, IL
Know Your Fi: When & How to Prototype (talk)
2017
MHub, Chicago, IL
Collaborate to Innovate (talk)
2016
Medline (Internal Product Manager Summit), Chicago, IL
Importance of the User (talk)
2015
Purdue ID Grad Show, Chicago, IL
Power of Prototyping (lecture)
2015
UCID, Cincinnati, OH
Purdue, Lafeyette, IN
Design Critique
2013
IIT Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
Surface Tension (exhibition)
Science Gallery
2011-2014
Dublin, NYC & Kitchener, Canada
Art & Ecology Now, Andrew Brown (Publication)
2014
Hidden (RCA Final Project) Featured
Designing Science, British Council UK (Publication)
2011
Hidden (RCA Final Project) Featured