ABOUT ME
Whether you’re a product or service design team, a C-suite leader, or even a mobile user looking to iteratively prototype an experience, I bring value to your work. I pay attention to detail, learn by failing forward, and am biased towards action. I approach challenges from the outside-in, leveraging users as my north star. I’m a communicator, a mentor, a motivator and influencer. These traits, plus my additional leadership values, combine to co-create with others and participate in the connectedness between people and in all things.
I’m a father and husband. I enjoy tinkering with home-automation and printing useful (and not-so-useful) 3D-printing projects. I enjoy learning how things work (or don’t work), by taking them apart and putting them back together again. I’m a builder and creator. Projects at home and in the yard have meaning when they solve a problem. Kitchen experiments make me curious and experimental… whether it’s sous-vide poached pears or a cherry wood smoked Texas brisket.
The dog and two adopted two cats became our way of making at-home quarantine and remote work a bit more fun and furry the past couple years; they make good office mates!
HIGHLIGHTS
Named “Best of IBM 2019”, an honor given to 0.2% of employees worldwide
Influenced more than $1.64B in Client Wins impacted across various IBM business units since 2015, and influenced over $200MM in wins across 16 opportunities between December 2016 to June 2017
Cofounded Magdesign, one of Austin’s Top 25 Design Firms (ABJ Book of Lists, 2009-2012)
Tripled revenue at Magdesign in the first three years of operation
Co-developed revolutionary studio management application suite and packaged it as a SaaS to design studios
Directed design for Dell-MessageOne product UX, UI elements, global marketing and branding, helping to close a $10MM financing round and accelerate corporate growth
Teamed with Spiceworks cofounders to help design the first formalized UX and UI for Spiceworks’ “Social Community for IT” and supported marketing to grow user adoption from stealth mode to over 1 million users
Launched SailTime’s “vision-on-a-napkin” to a $20MM+ global franchise by researching, defining, and designing fundamental user experience processes into one globally-accessible mobile application product design
Pioneered a unique print-process workflow and pre-press file production system
Leads and maintains internal and external design teams, client relationships and corporate accounts
Designs and develops interdisciplinary creative solutions for both SMB and Fortune 500 clients
Executive Leadership Coach to established companies, business owners and entrepreneurs
Mentor to fellow creative professionals in defining professional goals and supporter of local design culture
CREDS
Self-improvement and the desire to adapt are a core component of who I am as a person and as a professional. These credentials have guided me and my values in leading, coaching, and managing others — as well as myself.
Genesys Design Thinking Champion (2022)
Genesys Design Thinking Coach (2021)
Genesys Design Thinking Practioner (2021)
Genesys Design Thinking Explorer (2021)
IBM Blue Core Coaching Supervisor (2020)
IBM Blockchain Consultant (2019)
IBM Automation Essentials (2019)
IBM Blue Core Coach (2019)
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Advocate (2019)
IBM Blockchain Essentials (2018)
IBM Recognized Teacher/Educator (2018)
IBM Certified Manager (2018)
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Leader (2018)
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator (2017)
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Coach (2017)
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner (2016)
Master Practitioner - Energy Leadership Index (2011)
Certified Professional Coach (2011)
Founding Father, Sigma Chi Fraternity, Alpha Rho Chapter (1993)
