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I’m an end-to-end Lead Product Designer, with 12+ years experience working for B2B SaaS healthcare startups and consulting for fortune 100 companies across various industries. With a background in industrial design and innovation consulting, I have strong experience in 0-1 product builds, planning and conducting user research, synthesis and product strategy.

I spent the past 6 years as a player/coach Product Design Manager at Kalderos, a Series B healthtech and data analytics company. As the second design hire, I led the design on most of Kalderos’ products, created the initial site architecture and developed their first design system. As a design leader, I created the hiring and onboarding processes, established the working norms of the team and developed the approach to product discovery.

Previously, I worked in Innovation Consulting, at IA Collaborative, as an Industrial Designer and Strategist, advising and guiding Fortune 100 companies in incorporating human-centered design and creative thinking into their business strategy. Highlights include, developing the product strategy for the Sonos Move, and creating a new design language for Leica Biosystems, which can be seen applied to their newest products.

Living in Bozeman, MT, I can generally be found outside, hiking with our pup, fly fishing for trout, skiing and recently learning how to be a good dad to our new daughter.

CAPABILITIES

CAPABILITIES

Product Design

0->1 Product Builds

Human-centered Design

Design Systems

Discovery & User Research

Product Strategy

Workshop Facilitation

Design Thinking

Team Building & Mentoring

DesignOps

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

Lead Product Designer & Manager

Kalderos

2019-2026

Bozeman, MT (Remote)

Contract Industrial Designer & Strategist

Self-Employed

2018-2019

Chicago, IL

Senior Industrial Designer

IA Collaborative

2011-2017

Chicago, IL

Structural Packaging Designer

FutureBrand

Summer 2008

London, UK

MA Innovation Design Engineering

Royal College of Art

2008-2011

London, UK

MSC Innovation Design Engineering

Imperial College London

2008-2011

London, UK

BS Mechanical Engineering

University of Colorado

2002-2006

Boulder, CO

WORKSHOPS, TALKS & ENGAGEMENT

WORKSHOPS, TALKS & ENGAGEMENT

Living as a Leader

Leadership training (sponsored by Kalderos)

08.2022 - 05.2023

User Experience Circuit

General Assembly

08.2018

Designed Objects 1 Final Critique

School of the Art Institute

2018

Chicago, IL

Design Strategy Workshop

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management

2017

Evanston, IL

Know Your Fi: When & How to Prototype (talk)

MHub

2017

Chicago, IL

Collaborate to Innovate (talk)

Medline (Internal Product Manager Summit)

2016

Chicago, IL

Importance of the User (talk)

Purdue ID Grad Show

2015

Chicago, IL

Power of Prototyping (lecture)

UCID & Purdue

2015

Cincinnati, OH & Lafeyette, IN

Design Critique

IIT Institute of Design

2013

Chicago, IL

Surface Tension (exhibition)

Science Gallery

2011-2014

Dublin, NYC & Kitchener, Canada

Art & Ecology Now, Andrew Brown (Publication)

Hidden (RCA Final Project) Featured

2014

Designing Science, British Council UK (Publication)

Hidden (RCA Final Project) Featured

2011

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