Systems-thinking product designer for 20+ years.

Sony, PayPal, YouTube, Eli Lilly, and startups from seed to acquisition. Now focusing on agentic experiences, design engineering processes,and the future of product design as an industry.

I've spent the last two decades designing products at scale and building design functions from scratch, often as the first or only designer in the room.

My career started at the early edge of web development in the late '90s, working with the W3C and CSS Working Group, and has moved through mobile, product design, design leadership, and now AI-augmented workflows. I've led teams, hired teams, built design systems, and shipped products that got acquired.

Most recently I've been designing within FDA regulatory constraints at Eli Lilly, leading a corporate redesign for IAAPA, and building my own products: a developer stack monitoring app (hexwatch), an AI-powered music recommendation engine (Auric Engine), and open source tools. All designed in Figma and built through agentic programming, working out the workflow between a human designer directing AI-driven engineering.

2021 — Now

Pharma, cybersecurity, fintech. FDA compliance, design systems at scale. Building independent products through agentic programming, exploring the workflow between human design direction and AI-driven engineering.

2016 — 2020

Design leadership. Figma adoption, design systems, principal roles. Growing teams, managing agencies, shipping at startups from seed through acquisition.

2012 — 2016

Mobile and product design at PayPal, YouTube, and agencies. Xcode, Android Studio, Sketch. Research labs, hardware-informed design.

1998 — 2012

The hard knox of webdev. HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP. W3C and CSS Working Group. The foundation for everything since.

Passion projects and personal tooling built while exploring the ideal relationship between a human designer and agentic programming.

hexwatch

Shipped

Native iOS, iPadOS, and Apple Watch application monitoring an entire developer stack across 20 services including Vercel, Railway, Supabase, GitHub, Stripe, Sentry, and Cloudflare. Dual-mode security architecture: cloud-synced AES-256-GCM encrypted storage and a zero-knowledge on-device mode using iOS Keychain with hardware-backed key storage. No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party tracking. Android in active development.

Auric

Personal Use / Private Beta

Native macOS high-resolution audio player for large offline music libraries, featuring a custom shuffle algorithm and advanced folder-watching for automatic library management. Supports FLAC, ALAC, WAV, and all major lossless formats.

Auric Engine

In Development

AI-powered music recommendation system that crawls record labels, independent music blogs, and editorial sources to surface artists based on genuine cultural and editorial signal rather than listening behavior or popularity metrics. AI handles source discovery, cross-referencing artists across crawled data, and continuously expanding the source network. Architected as a paid API for developers and platforms.

Auric TUI

Open Source

Full-featured terminal audio player written in Rust, delivering lossless playback, real-time spectrum analyzer, album art rendering, playlist management, and watched folder auto-sync via a rich TUI with vim-style keyboard navigation and mouse support. Dracula and Gruvbox themes. Cross-platform across macOS, Linux, and Windows. MIT licensed.

Auric Converter

Personal Use / Private Beta

Audio format converter handling lossless to compressed transcoding across all major formats including WAV, FLAC, ALAC, MP3, and AAC.

porkbun-mcp

Open Source

MCP server enabling AI agents to manage Porkbun DNS records through any MCP-compatible client, including full DNS record CRUD across A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, and other record types. Runs locally over stdio only; credentials isolated to environment variables. Auto-registers into Claude's MCP configuration via a setup script. MIT licensed.

Previous experience available on LinkedIn in more detail:

  • UX Design Lead | EF Education First | Oct 2011 - Oct 2012
  • Interactive Designer | Dealer.com | Jul 2010 - Jul 2011
  • Senior Interactive Designer & Front-End Developer | Propeller Media Works | Jan 2007 - Jul 2010
  • Interactive Designer & Front-End Developer | Great Auk Wireless | 2004 - 2007
  • Front-End Developer | Schneider Digital | 2003 - 2004

Explorations, one-offs, and standalone screens outside of project work.

Auric Miniplayer
Auric Mobile
Notes
Crypto Dashboard
CS Dashboard
MainStreet
MainStreet Wireframe
MainStreet Icons
MainStreet v4
OLO
Photon
Photon UI
Prelude Operator
Prelude Operator v2
Prelude Web
sony
sony
Topology
WarpCast