What I do for work
I’m a product designer who loves product strategy and visual design. I specialize in mobile design, but I’ve been known to spin up a website or two. I do my best work with communicative partners who relish a solid product debate.
I mainly use Figma and Origami these days.
What I do for fun
I’m a big fan of movies. Lately I’ve been diving deep into Orson Welles’ filmography and rewatching True Detective. Sometimes I draw cartoons and other times I kick back and enjoy an old Fleischer Studio short.
Chat with me any time about theater, psychedelia, photography, menswear, fencing, or ligne-claire comics.
Interviews
Experience
Instagram
Senior Product Design Manager, 2023 - Present
Supporting the teams designing features and core surfaces on Instagram DMs.
Messenger
Product Design Manager, 2021 - 2023
Supported the Shared Experiences team which focuses on core surfaces within Instagram and Messenger, such as: Inbox, Composer, Information Architecture, Meta Messaging, and Groups.
Messenger
Senior Product Designer, 2016 - 2020
Designed chat experiences for Messenger and Instagram DMs. Led designs for in-thread features like Custom Reactions, Chat Themes, and Soundmojis.
Electropath
Co-Founder, 2014 - Present
I operate a design and development consultancy that specializes in mobile products. We're a small team of design, product, brand, engineering, and content strategy experts who take on interesting projects of all sizes.
Clients include: Google, LinkedIn, Foxtrot Systems, Caro Health, Dunwello, Hyka Theraputics, Assembly Kitchen, Trivie, Pison, Finary, Grata.
Wellframe
Product Design Lead, 2015 - 2016
I led product design at Wellframe, a Boston health-tech company that combines clinical programs, data science, and artificial intelligence to develop a powerful infrastructure for care delivery. My team built Wellframe's mobile and web dashboard products, which are used daily by at-risk patients and their care providers. Wellframe was acquired by HealthEdge in 2021.
Google
Senior UX Designer, 2014 - 2015
I worked on the Google Play for Education team, focusing on streamlining content management and purchase flows used by different schools around the world.
Notable projects include: Student Device Pull App, Request Center Dashboard, Content Creation, Student Content Management, Content Subscriptions, and a Material Design app icon for the Android Device Enrollment App.
Intrepid Pursuits
UI/UX Designer, 2013 - 2014
Designed mobile apps (iOS & Android) at a digital agency. Was part of the acquisition process of selling Timbre (our in-house concert app) to Seatwave, a British ticketing company which is now a part of Ticketmaster. Intrepid Pursuits was acquired by Accenture in 2017.
Innermost Labs
Co-Founder, 2012 - 2013
Co-founded an LLC with Sahar Massachi and Adam Hughes. Our company built mobile applications that tackled social justice issues. We graduated from the Connecticut Innovations Accelerator program at Yale Science Park, and successfully launched the Rootscamp 2012 app, which was used by 2500+ conference attendees in Washington D.C.
Activities
Harvard Innovation Labs: Product Design
Advisor: 2021, 2022, 2023
Mentoring Harvard iLabs teams.
University of Toronto Masters of Information Program
Intern Manager: 2021, 2022, 2023
Partnering with Ken Alba (Product) to place University of Toronto Masters students with startups for 3 month engagements. During this time, the students work on a scoped feature that includes a competitive product audit, a detailed flowchart, a UX Research session, and final build-ready specs for an end-to-end feature.
CUNY Techworks UX Design Program
Instructor, Guest Speaker, 2019, 2020
Design instructor for CUNY TechWorks, a US Department of Labor federally funded initiative connecting underrepresented New Yorkers to opportunities in New York's tech sector through no-cost, applied skills education.
Google Developer Groups
Instructor, Host, 2015, 2016
Organized and co-taught "UX Design for Mobile Developers", a weekly class for developers interested in learning the basics of Mobile UX Design. I also hosted a variety of tech-themed events throughout Boston as a GDG representative.
Hackathon Judge
- H.H. Brown Hackathon; 2014
- AT&T VR Hackathon; 2015
- MHacks (University of Michigan); 2017, 2018, 2019
- HackHarvard; 2019
- Harvard Innovation Labs; 2022
Hackathon Winner
- Intrepid Hackathon – Best Overall Project; 2013
- Mashable Travel Hackathon – Best Execution; 2014
- Spotify Hackathon – Best Overall Project; 2015
- FB Internal Hackathon, #61 – Judges’ Choice; 2018
Education
Mount Holyoke College; South Hadley, MA
Bachelor of Arts, English
Bachelor of Arts, Film