Story


What is good design?












In 2023 I joined   Outer Labs as a Product Strategist helping identify and validate new business opportunities for the AEC tech start-up.










I also started   Waterworks Games and published Alpenglow, a ski resort board game that raised over $100k in crowdfunding, with 3 new titles coming in 2025.












From 2022 to 2023, I guided go-to-market strategy and lead product design at   Modumate for an integrated end-to-end user experience. We grew growth by 600% in my first 6 months and launched a product marketplace as a new company revenue stream.





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Launched a product marketplace adding a new revenue stream



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Implemented a high performance onboarding experience




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Crafted a design system for faster development




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Introduced a rich schedule editing experience







From 2020 to 2022, I was the Technical Design Manager at    New Avenue Homes and designed new features connecting home builders, designers and owners for a positive home construction experience.





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Simplified the homebuilding experience into a single view




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Automated finances and consolidated project management







From 2011 to 2018, I created and supported  Camper, a home-grown summer camp registration platform that processed thousands of participants and millions in payments for camps across the west.




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Rethought how summer camp registration could work




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Digitized the at-camp staff experience




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Craft an extendable design system  




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Created a new front door to a network of summer camps 







From 2016-2020, I was a project architect at    ZGF Architects and consolidated hundreds of high performance tools and resources into a single easy to access repository and open-sourced it for other firms.





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Established a design knowledge repository







In 2014, Wojciech Magda and I founded   Beagle Score, a business site selection data aggregator and winner of Colorado’s GoCode Hackathon.




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WalkScore for business site selection 







In 2004, I founded   Zilifone Design and lead design and development as our team launched over 300 websites, apps, brands, and IT projects for clients across the western United States and southern France over 14 years.








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Crafted an interactive platform for exploring complexity theory




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Designed a platform for vet clinic websites






Story


From my first job building a climate data dashboard in 2004 through my career as a web developer, UX designer and architect, designing for the web has always been a passion.  

This is my story.









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