My strengths
Team Leadership
As a UX leader, I foster a culture of innovation, mentorship, and collaboration. I guide teams through structured coaching and professional development, ensuring designers grow as strategic thinkers. My leadership style balances creativity with business alignment, empowering teams to take ownership and fearlessly push boundaries.
UX Ops
I work to ensure my team can focus on delivering high-impact, user-centered solutions. I do this by streamlining UX Operations through optimized workflows, improved cross-functional collaboration, building scalable design systems and research frameworks, and leveraging the right tools in our processes.
Full Stack UX
I am a full-stack UX designer skilled in research, strategy, information architecture, interaction design, and front-end collaboration. I can effectively collaborate with stakeholders, designers, developers, and product managers to ensure a cohesive and user-centered product.
My approach
I’m a curious, multi-disciplinary product leader with over 20 years of experience building digital products. I get excited about solving complex problems and seeing the smile on a user’s face after we’ve made their life better. I love supporting and enabling talented teams to reach higher and go further by fostering a fun, productive environment built upon transparency, trust and collaboration.
I value people over everything.
I believe the success of a team is directly proportional to its unity and strength as a group. They say 'ideas are easy, but execution is difficult' and I believe that is why having solid teams that are aligned towards a common goal is a prerequisite to excellence. To me, a strong team is one where the members support each other, where everyone’s perspective is valued, where people are comfortable challenging each other and an individual's differences are seen as strengths.
My strengths are primarily in having and encouraging an inquisitive mindset, creating a work-life balance that allows ideas to be explored and experimented upon, encouraging creative thinking, and authenticity. These strengths are both my own and what I work to instill in my teams.
Hobbies and interests
Pinball
I freaking love pinball! I actually built my own pinball machine from scratch - I documented that whole journey on youtube - check out my channel (youtube.com/thepinballroom). I also have a side hustle renting out pinball machines (www.thepinballroom.com). I love restoring the old ones as projects I do with my boys. I think I actually like working on pinball machines even more than playing them.
Bourbon
Really, this section could just talk about good food & beverages in general. I'm no foodie, but I do appreciate great food made with love. I've been enjoying sipping quality whiskey and bourbon more and more over the last few years. I'm even one of those wacko's that stands in line very early outside my local Utah State Liquor store every 3rd Saturday in order to snag some of the hard to find bottles that are on limited allocation in our wonderful state.
Pickleball
I recently started playing pickleball with my family and have fallen in love with this sport. My son-in-law and I have really gotten into this and have even started playing in local leagues against really good players to improve our game. Nothing better than getting challenged a bit to help you step up your game. Pickleball ain't just for them silver-haired folk, alright? Seriously, this game has been getting crazy fun the more I play.
Salt Lake City, USA
14774 S Desert Sage Dr, Herriman, UT 84096