Where the happy path ends, I start

I'm a product designer with craft expertise in interaction and visual design, and a habit of building the things I design. I've worked across startups, a creative agency, and an in-house automotive design team, most often as the first or only designer in the room — defining the problem, shipping the product, and building the system that outlives it. I'm drawn to zero-to-one work, to turning manual, tangled processes into flows that feel obvious, and to prototyping early enough that real users shape the product before engineering starts. Currently founding product designer at Veteran Benefits Guide in Seattle.