Résumé

Core competencies

Leadership

Design management · hiring, mentoring and calibration · cross-org strategy · 0 → 1 product and company building

Domains

AI-native and agentic products · data and analytics at scale · developer experience · design systems

Craft

UX and interaction design · visual design and brand · high-fidelity prototyping · data visualisation

Engineering

React and React Native · Node and GraphQL · iOS and Android · REST and GraphQL APIs

Agentic

Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · harness engineering · MCP servers · agent plugin and skills design

Google

Pixels, then patterns, then people. Twelve years inside Google Cloud.

1. Data Cloud UX, Cloud Data AnalyticsSr. Staff UX Design Manager Nov 2024 to now
   • Leads the developer-experience design team in Data Cloud UX, its lead since July 2026: BigQuery, Gemini Enterprise, BigQuery Studio, Databases Studio, the Data Agent Kit for VS Code and Data Apps for Notebooks.
   • Design lead across a multi-thousand-person org of UX, product, engineering, marketing and sales. Held the team at eleven until November 2025; six senior-and-above designers today, after company-wide layoffs. Most have been at Google more than five years; the newest joined two years ago.
   • Runs a team distributed across three countries and four time zones.
   • Took the design team through adopting version control and agentic coding tools, and reviewed the code they shipped while managing.
2. Data Analytics UX, BigQuery UXUX Team Lead and Manager Oct 2023 to Nov 2024
   • Lead of the Data Analytics UX team from October 2023, and of BigQuery UX and BigQuery Experience from March 2024. Grew the team from five to eleven at its peak. Hiring, mentoring and calibration.
   • Led a six-month design collaboration across BigQuery, the streaming products and Cloud Setup to rethink onboarding. It removed friction from the setup journey and unlocked new roadmap areas and additional funding for a partner team.
3. Data Analytics, Streams and LakesStaff UX Designer Feb 2022 to Oct 2023
   • Returned from LunarCrush to design for BigQuery and the streaming products: Dataflow, Dataproc, Dataplex, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Flink and Spark.
   • Led design from zero on two new products: Managed Service for Apache Kafka (now GA) and BigQuery Engine for Apache Flink (public preview), plus the Pub/Sub and Managed Kafka integrations into BigQuery.
   • Designed 20+ features across Dataflow and Pub/Sub, with 14 GA launches in three quarters.
4. Google CloudStaff Interaction Designer and UX Engineer Jul 2018 to Jun 2021
   • Lead UX on Enterprise Customer Onboarding: Terraform blueprints and onboarding automation, 2019 to 2021.
   • Designed the network topology pattern for visualising complex systems, now core to Anthos Service Mesh.
   • UX patterns for third-party authentication and data regionalisation across the console, and patterns and best practice for perceived performance.
   • Built internal tools for how UX research is run across Google and how Critical User Journeys are captured and measured across GCP products.
   • Promoted from L4 to L6 in four years. Interviewed roughly seventy-five candidates for design, research and UX engineering roles.
5. Google Cloud PlatformStaff UX Architect Jan 2016 to Jul 2018
   • A horizontal role reporting to the UX Director: solve critical design problems anywhere on the platform, act as the customer’s advocate for a set of Cloud roles, and set strategy and vision.
   • Lead UX on Cloud Security Command Center v1, 2017 to 2018, now a large suite of security products.
   • Bridged UX and engineering teams across GCP as one of the org’s UX firefighters, dropping into new areas to become the subject-matter expert and ship.
6. Stackdriver, Cloud DiagnosticsSenior Interaction Designer Mar 2014 to 2016
   • Designed Logging, Trace, Profiler and Debug from zero and led UX on Error Reporting. All rolled into Cloud Operations, with Logging among the most used products in the console.

Ventures

Four companies from a blank page. Three still growing.

1. HangarXCo-Founder and CTO 2024 to now
   • Every engineering project in an applied-AI venture lab. Built Cortex, the knowledge engine, first; it runs two portfolio companies and the Obsidian plugin.
   • Northlit, the lab’s AI design suite: product direction, design system, front end and the MCP server, launched 2026.
2. Digital PoolFounder and CEO 2018 to now
   • Founded in 2018 as a side project, launched in 2020. Now thousands of events a month: 105,450 tournaments and 4.9M matches.
   • Designed and built the brand, the web platform, the back end and GraphQL API, and the React Native iOS and Android apps. Grew the team to seven.
   • Live scoring, streaming overlays and stat tracking used on the US Open 8-Ball, 9-Ball and 10-Ball Championships, the International 9-Ball Open, the Texas Open and the World Pool Championship.
   • More than ten partnerships across the industry: Diamond Billiard Products, Accu-Stats, OSPN, Felt Cam, the National Billiards League, FargoRate and fifty-plus tournament directors.
   • Built the audience alongside the product: 32.5K followers on Instagram, 18K on Facebook, 5.5K YouTube subscribers and 25M+ lifetime views.
   • An ad platform on AdButler serving ~19M impressions a year, and permanent all-table scoring and streaming hardware going into pool rooms nationwide.
3. LunarCrushCo-Founder and Chief Design Officer Aug 2017 to Jan 2022
   • Co-founded with three partners, part-time while at Google, to design and build the first brand, website and product. Those helped raise a $2.5M seed round and grow the company to fifteen full-time staff by 2021.
   • Joined full-time as Chief Design Officer in June 2021, leading UX and UI for web and mobile and a small design team.
   • Within six months: a new brand, website and product, iOS and Android apps from scratch, and the LUNR utility token and wallet.
   • After the v2 launch in October 2021, users went from 150,000 to 2.5 million in sixty days and the site passed 50 million pageviews a month. LUNR saw 373,237 transactions and 38,531 holders in the same period.
   • Built the first web app front end in React and the first Galaxy Score™ algorithm. An open-source widget framework for embedding live data became the first revenue source in 2018.
   • Hired three full-time engineers and designers with the executive team. Managed a senior product designer through the rebrand, lunarcrush.com, lunrtoken.com, the mobile app and a new design system.
4. Levid MediaFounder and Creative Director 1999 to 2014
   • A design agency in Seattle. Fifteen years of sites, identities and campaigns for Nintendo of America, Microsoft, RED, Coca-Cola, Speakeasy, Renovacom and Dell University.
   • Production design and development for Nintendo.com, Wii.com and NintendoWifi.com with Nintendo’s Online Publications team. Wound down in 2014 to focus on Google.

Earlier roles

1. Column Five MediaSenior Software Developer Jun 2013 to Mar 2014
   • Lead UI designer and front-end developer on Visage, a real-time data visualisation and reporting platform. Built the agency site on Rails and Angular.
2. Kaleo SoftwarePrincipal Product Designer Sep 2012 to Mar 2013
   • Lead product designer on all customer-facing applications. Front end in HAML, Sass and CoffeeScript, with Rails behind it.
3. GaikaiSenior Web Developer Jan 2011 to Sep 2012
   • Early employee of the cloud-gaming startup acquired by Sony in 2012. Lead designer and front-end engineer on the system managing millions of game servers across NOCs worldwide.
4. AKTA Web StudioDesign Director 2010 to 2012
   • akta.com, Magento mobile commerce for iOS, MODX, TopGolf kiosks, Vosges Chocolate and Traklabs. Acquired by Salesforce.
5. MetagenicsSenior Web Developer Aug 2009 to Jan 2011
   • Lead developer on all major sites. The Zend platform, public and private REST APIs, the e-commerce platform deployed to 45,000 customers, and MyMetagenics.com.
6. RED Digital CinemaSenior Web Designer and Developer Aug to Dec 2008
   • Kicked off the new direction for red.com, the PHP framework behind version 2.0, and concept and brand work for the 2009 cameras.
7. Dropout Inc., Mislabeled.comCreative Director Mar 2007 to Jul 2008
   • User experience, product design and brand for the Mislabeled platform, from Flash prototypes to print.
8. Nintendo of AmericaOnline Technical Designer and Flash Developer Jan 2005 to Mar 2007
   • Micro-sites, games and production for Nintendo.com, Wii.com and NintendoWifi.com with the Online Publications group. Ported DS games to the web in Flash.
9. RiverSharpe InteractiveProject Designer and Flash Developer May 2000 to Jan 2001
   • Flash UI and interaction for Sports Illustrated, Boeing, IBM, Macy’s, Wal-Mart and PepsiCo projects.
10. The Great Alaskan Shirt CompanyArt Director May 1999 to May 2001
    • Concept and design for PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the US Army.

Education

1. Art Institute of SeattleAssociate of Applied Arts, Multimedia and Web Design 2001 to 2003
   • Attended on a design scholarship, won in a nationwide design contest in 2000.