I'm a family man and enjoy hanging out with my lady and daughter. 🎥 My first passion is film and media so you can catch me at the cinema quite a bit. Getting lost in story is a great pleasure and way to silence the stresses of normal life. 🎵 Music is another passion that I can't get enough of regardless of genre. I have been buying records for over 20 years and have a pretty massive collection of everything from punk, techno and metal. 💪 I'm also interested in health so I do a lot of workouts and hiking to keep fit. 🐈 I appreciate the calming nature of cats and have one named Harold who is a finicky but lovable. 🎮 I'm a devout video gamer who loves a good platformer, strategy or RPG game. 🎢 My family and I love rollercoasters and will go on any one you throw at us whether at Cedar Point or beyond.

There is a lot of discussion around the need for UX designers to make a portfolio showcasing their work. For me personally, it is about consolidating a handful of UX projects into an easy-to-understand format. This hopefully helps people understand my strengths as a designer and also helps me keep perspective of my career and evolution as a designer.

A lot! I've been lucky enough to work in Enterprise UX, Agency UX and Startup UX for over 10 years. Each project I've been on has helped me expand my understanding and skills in UX, UI and User Research. Specifically, I have worked on a lot of traditional eCommerce websites selling products, services and goods including Westfield, Cardinal Health, Key Bank, Sundays and Puma. In addition to traditional types of B2C UX, I also seem to get lucky to get more complex and funky types of UX work such as designing an Underwriting system for Westfield, a complex redesign for a B2B / B2C website at RRD and designing apps for internal employees at Home Depot and Camping World. The truth is I really like all types of UX and appreciate the challenge involved in any type of cross-functional project. Through all of my years of UX experience I have learned how to achieve success with any set of circumstances.

The world is complex and helping people out by simplifying their tools, systems and websites is massively rewarding. I think that UX gives the chance to work with people from a lot of differing backgrounds and allows collaboration with many important roles all working together to get a job done. I also really, really like interaction design and making things work seamlessly. The other bit is I really enjoy strategy and figuring out how to work under project constraints, with resource limitations and making something concrete from an ambiguous starting point. Something that I am learning more recently is how much I enjoy helping younger designers refine their skills.

The UX world is changing in 2025. It seems juniors are having a difficult time finding their way into jobs. The backlash against bootcamps is afoot and there are more questions than answers. For me, the best way to get my foot into the door was a low-paying internship at a local usability lab. This was an incredible way to surround myself with highly-skilled professionals who would graciously donate time helping me to learn. You get on-the-job experience and also have a safe space to fail. This is massively important and can give you a real advantage before you get into enterprise level UX.

My portfolio is an intentional, visual and visceral reaction to the constant chase for perfection in UX. The reality of UX is that the designs we are constantly tweaking are in a constant state of disarray until they are not. We spend most of our time living in chaos and ambiguity and I feel that is not much reflected or acknowledged by people in the field. I wanted to show that messiness can still be beautiful and usable while tipping my hat to the chaotic landscapes that designers often find themselves living in during much of a project or initiative. All jokes aside, I wanted something that was messy, dumb and sort of fun rather than the clean, pixel-perfect site I had the last couple of years.

I'm glad you asked because I'll tell you. A lot, as often as possible. I'm even back to making electronic music again with Ableton as a way to decompress and be creative. It's strange, I never considered myself creative but here I am making tunes and designing creative things. Anyway, here are a few LPs I've been listening to lately but fair warning you problably won't like any of it:

Pelican

"Flickering Resonance"

Barker

"Stochastic Drift"

Sumac

"The Film"

Corpus Offal

"S/T"