I'm a digital product designer and software builder splitting my time between Seattle and Lynden, Washington. In my long career, I have managed high-performing teams and led design and research activities in companies such as Meta, Amazon, and Teague. I am also proud of being the first full-time designer hired in the Seattle offices of Hulu(2011) and Facebook(2013). As a design generalist, my skills include design prototyping, product definition and strategy, user research, user experience design, and visual design. I'm proficient in the latest design and AI tools and can create whatever artifacts are required to communicate an idea, whether it's interactive prototypes, high-fidelity screen layouts, user flows, wireframes, or production software running on the latest tech stack. I have experience hand-coding HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (which this site is built with) and vibe-coding Next.js front-end stacks, integrating with backend services, and working with Postgres databases. I prefer being embedded within scrappy, cross-disciplinary teams than centralized design orgs. I've seen magic happen when product managers, engineers, researchers, and designers are empowered to move quickly and autonomously. Although my entire career has been focused on digital design, my formal education is in Architecture, and I graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Tech and a Master of Architecture from MIT. Since moving to the Pacific Northwest in 2004, I have found incredible joy through hiking, skiing, and long-distance road cycling. I built WanderingAway.com as a journal of my favorite mountain adventures and a way to practice manual-coding. You can follow my Instagram account @wandering.away for more recent pictures. Although I have a LinkedIn profile, I prefer that you send me an email to contact me.