Thank you for your interest in my portfolio site. I am a creative director gone entrepreneur with a background in experience design (10+ years working experience) and a passion for emerging technology and human behavior. I spent the last several years running an user experience design firm in New York, Bright Iron Group, as a working partner responsible for business development, resource management, creative direction, program management, and hands-on design work for the company. Over the course of 4 years I managed every aspect of the business including leading cross-functional teams of full-time and contract employees, as well as managing complex partnerships with 3rd party vendors and client organizations for large enterprise ventures and new product builds — always willing to roll up my sleeves and fill gaps on the team in any capacity needed. Bright Iron’s primary focus was user experience design and branding for responsive websites and mobile applications, basically designing and launching new digital products and companies. In January of this year, I led the company through an acquisition by a blockchain research firm.
Prior to joining Bright Iron I was a founding member and Creative Director of mbInnovations (MBI), an innovation lab and consulting group inside a large New York advertising agency. At MBI, we studied emerging technology and new trends in consumer behavior with the aim of developing business models and new revenue streams for enterprise client partners, executable 3-5 years into the future. The ideas we developed were well researched and ambitious.
Before getting into design, I worked as a sommelier and wine educator in California’s Napa Valley, and before that I was a fun-loving bartender in New Orleans (I still dream of moving back one day and opening a wine bar). For now I live happily in beautiful Portland, Oregon with my wife and a little one.