Websites, product UI, and the design systems underneath. I design with AI, and build with it too, from rapid prototypes to shipped products. Twenty years of patterns to draw on, and new ones when nothing fits.
Selected work
Government and startup product work. Behind a password rather than out in the open, and I am happy to share it.
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Selected work
Pactu.ai
A product I designed and built end to end, as a design engineer working alongside AI agents. It finds federal work before the solicitation exists, ranks without pretending to predict, and says plainly what it cannot know.
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SEC.gov
A full-site concept in four business days: homepage, section landing, content page, and a design system. Check out the process and explore the clickable prototypes.
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DOJ × DHS
Asked at 10:30am, prototyped by 2:30pm, ready for launch four business days later. The White House reviewed it and liked it, and it went live right before the President's address.
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OPM.gov
The Plum Book lists 9,000 federal positions that can be filled by appointment. There was already a web version, and it was very old. This was the rebuild: search it, filter it, sort it, export it, read it on a phone.
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ServeFed
400 people across 40 states, and a site built back when the company was smaller. Rebuilt around scale and calm, on a platform their own team can run.
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Swaggle
Co-founder and Chief Design Officer of a men's consignment startup. Three pivots across iOS, Android, and web. Onboarding drop-off fell 35%, profile completion rose 60%, and the direction behind $150K in seed funding, ETC Baltimore and 1776.
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I read the interviews and the documents, then pull out what actually matters. Days, not months.
02
Structure before pixels. The content model and the plain-language copy have to survive legal review, so they get built first.
03
Real HTML people can click and argue with. Not a flat comp they have to imagine.
04
Specs, tokens, and commented code, so engineering builds it once.
Startup, studio, federal. Same job every time. Find the real problem, then make the complicated thing feel obvious.
2025–Present
Designer / Researcher
Design lead inside an AI-native initiative to speed up federal website modernization. Agency projects and bids go from brief to concept in 4 days, and launch-ready over a weekend.
2026–Present
Product Designer / Design Engineer
Designing and building a federal capture intelligence product that helps small businesses find government work before it is posted, and know what to do next.
2010–Present
Product Designer
70+ products and sites for startups, small businesses, and public-sector clients. Usually start to finish, usually alone.
2006–2025
Senior Product Designer
Accessible, mobile-first design for OPM.gov and the operating-status products agencies rely on when the government closes. Built the component library that took mockups from 5 days to 8 hours.
2016–2022
Chief Design Officer, Co-founder
iOS, Android, and web, through three pivots. The onboarding redesign cut drop-off 35%. The product direction and investor materials helped land $150K, plus seats at ETC Baltimore and 1776.
2009–2016
Food Truck Monkey · TrendPo · Menu Ninja · The Map Network · WonderClick
Online ordering for food trucks, political-sentiment dashboards, online ordering for restaurants, an online interactive-map startup, and a sweepstakes startup, in that order. B.A. Imaging and Digital Art, UMBC.