I'm a 38 year old product designer who likes to get his hands dirty. I am interested in the full lifecycle of product development, with a constant growth mindset.
My family and I are native Oregonians and have lived in Eugene (~10 years), as well as Portland and Salem. We love the Pacific Northwest and try to get outside as much as possible.
Skills
My superpowers are best delivered in a bullet list:
- Design methods and systems
- Planning and execution
- Vision setting
- Communication and Influence
- Critique and facilitation
- Learning and mentoring
- Conceptual Thinking and Modeling
- User-centered design
- Technical and Product Knowledge
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- User Research
- Design Strategy
- Gap Analysis and Prioritization
- Journey mapping
History
2023 Atlassian
Lead designer across Trello, Confluence, Jira work Management, and Atlas.
2019 – 2022 Atlassian - Confluence
Designer for Confluence. I worked to launch Confluence Free and Premium. I worked with the Discovery and Organization team to redesign the Home experience.
2016 – 2018 Atlassian - SourceTree + Bitbucket
Designer for SourceTree and Bitbucket. I completely redesigned and modersnized the SourceTree desktop applications for MacOS and Windows. On Bitbucket, I lead an initiative to redesign the Pull Request experience, introducing a new file tree and sidebar.
2014 – 2015 Atlassian - Hipchat
Folded HipChat into the Atlassian product family, rethinking the design system to incorporate OS level patterns, both desktop and mobile.
2011 – 2014 Atlassian - Bitbucket
Design lead for Bitbucket. Redesigned over 70 views and workflows. Optimized signup funnels to help reach a user base of over 1 million worldwide. Implemented Lean UX methodologies to change a developer driven culture to adopt design thinking.
2009 – Palo Alto Software
UX lead for LivePlan, a business planning SaaS product. Designed a complete user experience from the ground up, involving complex financial controls and document editing/publishing.
2008 – EPIC
Designed and coded various educational web apps. Created an identity for a network of tools giving them a unified look and feel. Clients ranged from organizations at the state, national and international level. I was also a system administrator and was responsible for moving a data center.
2007 – University of Oregon
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts.
2006 – GEAR UP
Developed content for a bilingual site and managed MySQL databases. I also maintained a legacy custom CMS in PHP.