My wife and I moved to Boise in 2019 for her PHD at Boise State. I've been working remote since then and loving it. When everyone else was adapting to new work from home structures in 2020, nothing really changed for me. For the most part I work east coast hours since that's where my team is based. We live in an apartment complex on a lake, and life is good.

I grew up on the east coast, in southern Maine. I graduated the University of Maine in 2017 with a degree in New Media and minors in Graphic Design, Computer Science, and Psychology. Going through school, I wasn't completely sure what I wanted to do. I just studied what I was interested in. The human brain, cognition, perception, art, video, photography, color theory, typography, animation, many courses in writing code and building sorting algorithms. The culmination of everything I learned and did was the perfect setup for a career in user experience design. The combination of all that and a great mentor who knew people looking for young designers put me in a job right out of college and where I still am today.

Designer, now Senior Designer leading the design of the website, and countless features between several apps. I've designed print marketing materials for trade shows, I've had say in the industrial design of products, I've run weekly standups and managed jira boards. Many meetings with stakeholders, user testing groups, and engineers. I love it.

Still here? Want some more random facts about me? Here we go:

When I was young I raced sailboats, at 15 I started teaching and by 19 I was coaching the race team. I planned the curriculum for the summer, made lesson plans every day, and was in charge of 20 kids out on the ocean and on land when we would travel around New England to compete. I was better at coaching than I was at racing. The kids I taught kicked ass. Here's an article, we made front page news.

As part of a New Media project when I was a Junior we had to propose an installation at a children's museum, as well as build a prototype. My proposal was chosen to actually be installed in the museum and as far as I know is still there. Here's an article.

I can ski double black diamonds, I'm comfortable doing drops and wall rides on my mountain bike, I drive an orange Subaru with a rooftop tent, I taught myself how to fly fish after moving to Idaho, I love reading, I enjoy woodworking and furniture making, I got a sewing machine so I can make bags (my inner product design nerd always thought backpack design was fascinating), I proposed on top of a mountain in Maine and planned a 2020 wedding in Wyoming but it changed locations four times as states shut down, I love designing things, digital or physical, and watching them slowly become real. I believe in iteration and critique. I'm not the best writer but I can write directional copy for a site or app and I can ramble on my website.

I also enjoy photography. I took all the pictures on this site (except for the ones that I'm in).

I hope my run-on sentences were as entertaining as they were informative and I hope to keep this website up to date with projects and thoughts and favorite things.

But enough about me, what about you? Why are you here? Shoot me an email and we can talk.
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