One person who can research, design, and ship the code, start to finish.

I have been the founding designer at four companies: Stratasys, Ovation, TetraScience, and Rhino FCP. That is not a line on a resume: it is a skill. A founding designer inherits no design system, no component library, and no engineering team that already trusts them. They build all three from nothing while the product is still changing shape. I have done that four times.

Almost all of it has been in life sciences, pharma, healthcare, & additive manufacturing — a domain where the interface is not decoration. A confusing screen can slow a trial or mislead a researcher, so clarity is the whole job.

I do not stop at the design file. I research the problem, design the interface, and build the front end that ships, code reviews and all. When a design meets the constraints of real code and real data, I am already the one in there solving it, not waiting on a handoff.

That is the value of working the seam instead of picking a side: nothing gets lost in translation, because there is no translation. What I ship is what I designed.

I am looking for a full-time, principal-level role on a product team that wants a designer who can also build.

I’m based in Vermont, and when I’m not in Figma or a codebase I’m by a lake, on a mountain, or on a trail in the woods.