Executive Product Design Leader

High performer across Communications, Strategy, Experience & Product Design.

A solutions-focused design executive and advisor who grows design teams and plots design operations to most effectively serve Fortune 500 brands, SaaS-based startups and blockchain innovators. An award- winning team leader able to orchestrate the entire strategic, creative and product development process – from customer insight to solution design through creative direction, development and launch – all with the aim of establishing a credible competitive advantage.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SMALL PLANET, Brooklyn, New York • digital product agency • 2021 - current Head of Experience Design (remote)

Lead the rebuilding of a design department inside a high functioning, full-stack, digital product agency environment. Work with C-Level executives to refine business strategy and design operations.

UNITED TRIBE, Freeport, Maine • digital design consultancy • 2017 - 2018 / 2020 - 2021 Founder

Consultancy focused on amplifying the sweet spot that unites business and customer needs.

IDEAS BY NATURE, Denver, Colorado • blockchain product agency • 2018 - 2019 Executive Director of Product Design

Lead and manage the agency’s product design, experience design and project management teams as well as support all business development activities in the blockchain/crypto space.

MONDO ROBOT, Boulder, Colorado • digital agency • 2015-2017 Head of Experience Design

Lead and manage the firm’s experience design practice - overseeing user experience, motion and visual designers - while actively driving the quality of deliverables and client relations.

SPHERO, Boulder, Colorado • consumer-facing entertainment robotics company • 2015 Senior Experience Design Director

Hired to provide a foundation for a user-centered strategy and product design practice inside an engineering-focused company, while executing on critical software and hardware product lines.

CRISPIN PORTER + BOGUSKY, Boulder, Colorado • full-service, integrated agency • 2012-2015 Experience Design Director

Work with top national and international brands to make them famous, by making them favorites. Acted as the client-facing digital strategist and user experience (UX) lead. Helped win accounts over $250M.

THE BLITZ AGENCY, Santa Monica, California • integrated digital agency • 2010-2012 Associate Experience Director

Lead critical agency relationships to develop best of class solutions on mobile, web and game console

(primarily the Xbox) screens. Acted as team lead evolving solutions development processes. *******@******.** •

EDUCATION

Executive Education, Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Martial Arts Training, MartialWorks Pekiti Tirsia Kali

Coursework in Graphic Design, University of California – Los Angeles Extension Program

Coursework in Environmental Architecture, Pratt Institute of Architecture

Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Studio Art, University of Colorado

Millbrook Preparatory School, Millbrook, New York

PUBLIC

Juror for Core77 Design Awards, May 2021

Lecturer, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Blockchain Graduate Program, February & December 2020 Speaker, Blockchain Training Conference, August 2019 Speaker, American Renewable Energy (ARE) Day, Aspen CO, August 2019 Speaker, ETH Denver February 2019

Speaker, GeekEnds, April 2018

Lecturer, Savannah College of Art & Design, June & August 2017 Speaker, Challenger Flame Series, Charles Schwab, April 2017 Speaker, MidWest UX Conference, October 2014

Lecturer, Art Center College of Design, April 2011

ADVISOR

EQL Work Inc: Advisor

Helixaeon Inc.: Advisor. The Helix Time model, revealed at Sundance 2019 opening ceremony and United Nations General Assembly. https://helixtime.io/ TunesMap, Inc.: Co-founder and advisor. Visualized search for culture. https://tunesmap.com

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