Designer-developer. Twelve years. Still drawing by hand.

Twelve years on complex B2B SaaS. Senior UX through Director. Research, strategy, information architecture, and systems design across every role. Most recent year: Lead UX at Carlyle on a confidential AI investment platform for analysts and senior execs, the work that got them out of Excel and into the platform. Now a designer-developer working on agent UX, conversational interfaces, and the design systems that make complex platforms legible. I run discovery, test with users, ship production code, and iterate on data. Embedded with engineering, or solo when speed matters.

I don't ship from Figma anymore. The source of truth moved to the working product. Most days I'm in Cursor with Claude Code in the loop, pushing real interactions through the build before the file ever gets clean. Figma is still in the toolkit when collaboration or design-system work calls for it. Different tools for different problems.

Career shape is startups. Director at small companies, Senior IC at larger ones. That's startup math, not a step down. The titles fluctuate; the work doesn't.

Lives in North Smithfield, RI with my wife and two kids. Coach my son's basketball team. Play Magic: The Gathering, read Marvel Comics, still draw by hand.