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About

I design and build digital products that work beautifully for the people using them. I’m drawn to interfaces with a clear point of view, refined, expressive, and a little unexpected, where visual craft and real usefulness are inseparable. I take ideas from the first spark through the final build, leaving room to experiment, play, and make something people genuinely enjoy using.

Experience
Aug 2026 – Present
Product Designer · Stealth Startup (NDA)
Part-time. Designing product interfaces and contributing to development under active NDA; details withheld for confidentiality.
Jun 2025 – Present
Freelance product designer & full-stack developer
Partnering with clients to shape, design, and build digital products end-to-end, from product direction and interface design through production implementation.
Jul 2025 – Jul 2026
R&D Business Intern
Designed and shipped internal production software at Driscoll's, UK. Sole designer and developer on PlotWise and Resolv. Live in production across 8 R&D sites in the UK and US, tracking over 300,000 GBP in operational inventory.
Education
2025
B.S. Business Administration, Entrepreneurship
CSU Sacramento
2023
A.A. Political Science
Sacramento City College
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What I’m listening to
Iconography (Konx-Om-Pax Remix) artwork
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Competences
Design
  • Product design
  • UI / UX
  • Design systems
  • Interaction
  • Prototyping
Build
  • Full-stack engineering
  • Next.js · TypeScript
  • React · Tailwind
  • Supabase · PostgreSQL
  • API integration
Tools
  • Figma
  • shadcn/ui
  • GSAP · Lenis
  • Vercel
  • Claude
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
Principle

Details aren't the decoration, they're the work.