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Product designer and design lead. I build products from zero, the systems that hold them together, and the teams that ship them. Fifteen years, twenty-six teams, one tally at a time.

Darkroom · off the clock

See the world through the eyes of my camera lens.

Photographs taken between the work. Every frame is tagged with what shot it — a phone, a DSLR, or one of the two film cameras that make me slow down.

Start at zero.

Every project here began at nothing. If yours is at zero too, that is exactly the right place to start.

Two ways in

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