Seasoned product designer with a decade of experience in crafting products that focus on detail, usability, and a healthy dose of play. Internet explorer and strong believer in the private indie web. 
Open for new opportunities.

GIPHY 2017 - 2024

7+ years of experience in making the world a loopier place by guiding the design of GIPHY’s product suite through unprecedented growth. Accolades include a handful of Webby awards, acquisitions, and international legal battles.

  • Senior Staff Product Designer

    2023 - Current

  • Staff Product Designer

    2020 - 2023

  • Senior Product Designer

    2017 - 2020

  • GIPHY App: Multi-stage redesign of the original GIPHY app and consolidation of 3 legacy side-apps. Persistent iteration on a Top 50 app across creation tools and experience.

  • GIPHY.com: Years of continuous user improvements and product health to one of the most popular webpages on the internet.

  • GIPHY SDK / Developers: Product suite & documentation for integrating GIPHY into thousands of third-party applications. You’ve likely used one or two of them!

  • GIPHY Internal Tools: Design ownership of internal products assisting GIPHY's content and moderation teams. Advocate of task efficiency and content safety.

  • GIPHY For Marketers: Product campaign introducing GIPHY’s new advertising platform. Includes landing page, communication, & collaboration on an internal reporting system.

  • GIPHY Design System: Led creation and ongoing maintenance of GIPHY's design system and component library within Figma and other tools.

HUGE, Inc Summer 2015 - Spring 2017

Worked with a range of clients, from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. Scope of design included product innovation, strategy, and launch experience.

  • Senior Product Designer

    2017

  • Product Designer

    2015 - 2016

  • HUGE Schools

    Summer, 2015

  • Muzik: Concept through launch of companion app control experience for the headphone startup, Muzik. Also included marketing and product webpages.

  • LG: Product strategy and conceptual prototyping of an OS for LG’s upcoming phone. Focused on multi-tasking & contextual-personalization.

  • American Express, HP, Apple, Verizon, Comcast, Zelle Pre-Product, HUGE Cafe: UX, VD, and Prototyping for product campaigns, pitches, and celebrations.

  • HUGE Displays: Collaboration with an internal team of tinkerers on the design and programming of in-office displays across HUGE’s 12 offices.

Dark Igloo 2015 - Ongoing

Continuous collaborator at/with Dark Igloo, providing various assists on design and other very-cool creative endeavors.

  • Designer

    2015

  • Photographer, Drone Operator

    2019

  • Continuous Collaborator, Friend

    2015 - Ongoing

  • Self-E-Wear: Web/Event design and photo for the only virtual reality experience with the power to Look at You!™. Debuted at F5 Fest in 2015.

  • Duality Derby: Web experience, drone cinematography, & photo for the studio’s first 2020 short film about using branding & design as a vehicle for self discovery.

  • SeeHearNow: Web design & development for 2021 launch of a series of short videos exploring the natural world's inner harmonies.