About me.
My relationship with design and craft begins in infancy. I grew up surrounded by sawdust, hand tools, and the sounds of a home being rebuilt. My father was once a professor at The Philadelphia College of Art and later one of the most sought-after hardwood floor designers and installers in the Philadelphia area. He spent my childhood producing work of museum quality: intricate hardwood inlays, wrought iron smithing, handmade jewelry. Witnessing that level of artistry up close established a high bar for my own craft.
My parents encouraged my creative pursuits early on. By 18 months old I was already hammering nails into boards. In middle school, I was making fake movie title sequences and designing banner ads for forums. By high school I was vice-president of the Graphic Design Club. The throughline was always the same — a compulsion to make things well, with my hands, and with care.
I brought that compulsion with me to Carnegie Mellon, where I studied Industrial Design and graduated in 2011 with a BFA and College Honors, having received the Design Merit Award for my involvement in the design community.
Since then I've worked across education, global corporations, and startups, contributing to patents, redesigning products that have gone to market, restructuring how design teams operate, and taking ideas from nothing to something real. I operate at the intersection of business, design, and engineering, and I'm equally fluent in the physical and digital worlds.
What I bring to clients is a systems-level mindset paired with an attention to craft. I can zoom out to understand how the pieces fit together, and zoom in to make sure the details are right. If you're building something new, navigating organizational change, or trying to close the gap between what your product is and what it should be, I'd love to work together.