Summary

As an avid engineer and UXer, I have a deep wealth of experience delivering products for professionals & experts, always with a keen focus on practicality & inclusivity, and copious enthusiasm for building & maintaining design systems that encourage dev teams’ collaboration and raise the bar for end-users. I’m always working to reach across domains and pull people, skills, and knowledge together to bring ever more valuable experiences to market. I strive to build community every day, to which end I’m also a founder of two nonprofit cooperatives.

Experience

Senior Design Engineer, Glade.ai

Remote (Menlo Park, California, USA) · November 2025–present

  • Directing the design and engineering of Glade’s UI for law firms and their clients.
  • Architecting constructive agent interactivity in Glade’s new design system.
  • Conducting user research interviews and liaising with customer leaders.
  • Building-out tools and automations so non-technical contributors can iterate on the UI and still meet my high quality bar.

Senior UX Engineer, DXOS

Remote (New York, New York, USA) · September 2022–November 2025

  • Designing and building app experiences for the DXOS platform.
  • Contributing to the architecture of the UI extensibility model.
  • Creating and maintaining design systems and packages for the DXOS ecosystem.

UX Engineer II, Microsoft: Teams developer experiences

Bellevue, Washington, USA · June 2021–September 2022

  • Built and released Fluent Blocks, an open source library of React components (@fluent-blocks/react) for the Fluent design system to help app developers produce more consistent and usable experiences.
  • Mitigated numerous accessibility bugs in the Teams Developer Portal and integrated Fluent Blocks into the product.
  • Created tool for generating color palettes & themes procedurally, called “LAB curved color system tool”.

UX Engineer consultant, Microsoft: Teams, via Kforce

Bellevue, Washington, USA · June 2020–June 2021

  • Built and released an initial library of React components (@fluentui/react-teams) for the Teams design system to help app developers produce more consistent and usable experiences.

Founding director, Accord Cooperative

Seattle, Washington, USA · March 2020–present

  • Designed and built a Slack app to help run more methodical, robust democratic processes (accord.coop).
  • Collaborated with STAR Voting to promote that voting method.

Senior UX Designer, CrowdStrike

Remote · May 2019–March 2020

  • Helped to establish and proliferate a new design system for CrowdStrike’s Falcon Console for administering security operations.
  • Collaborated with the broader team to improve clarity and reliability in the design workflow.
  • Designed and shipped host-based firewall management in the Falcon Console.

Lead UX Designer, AMBOSS GmbH

Berlin, Germany · June 2017–April 2019

  • Founded the UX design practice at AMBOSS, established the beginnings of an agile workflow, set up a common design system, and grew the UX team from just myself to 4 designers and one user researcher.
  • Under my leadership we began redesigning and redeveloping AMBOSS’s flagship product to be friendlier to new users, more testable and iterable, and more usable in general.

UX Designer & UI Engineer, AMBOSS GmbH

Berlin, Germany · May 2016–May 2017

  • Designed and built a media viewer and the internal tooling necessary for bringing in-house illustrations into a highly interactive and portable experience.
  • In this process I advocated for and implemented a more robust workflow for the front-end, including automated tests, builds, and code reviews.

UX Designer II, Microsoft: WDG

Bellevue & Redmond, Washington, USA · March 2015–April 2016

  • As part of the envisioning team in Windows, I designed and engineered ideas for the future of content experiences.
  • Many of these concepts were far-reaching and called for new 3D techniques and the latest technologies.
  • The final designs and prototypes acted as tangible evidence that the future was within reach, and guided the design group’s continuing work.

UX Designer II, Microsoft: AMP & MSN

Bellevue & Redmond, Washington, USA · January 2013–October 2014

  • Designed common features and built prototypes of new ideas for Bing/MSN apps, the new MSN.com, and other projects.
  • Many of the apps I’ve contributed to come pre-installed on the latest Windows devices including desktops, tablets, and phones, and the new MSN is live at msn.com.

UI Engineer, Apigee

Palo Alto, California, USA · September 2011–June 2012

  • Designed and built developer-user experiences for Apigee.
  • I was tasked with conceptualizing, prototyping, and shipping Apigee’s first web portal for clients in close coordination with the UX design team.
  • Our portal visualized and made interactive the components of Apigee’s API gateway.

UI Engineer, TownHog

San Francisco, California, USA · March 2011–August 2011

  • Built websites and website components using image sprites and finely-honed HTML and CSS such that the product was compatible with even very old browsers.
  • I also worked on several internal tools written in Ruby.

Education

McGill University, Bachelor of Arts & Science

Honours Cognitive Science: computer science, psychology, linguistics

Focused on topics in cognitive and computational psychology, linguistics, philosophy of science, and computer science, with two undergraduate research theses in neural networks and a minor in Japanese language.

Montréal, Québec, Canada
September 2007–December 2010

Awards

Microsoft Patent Award: “Flexible Content Display”

February 2014

Microsoft Ship-It Award: “Apps for Windows 8.1”

August 2013

References

Available upon request.