Professionally, I’m a product person, a designer who engineers, a product manager who researches, happiest doing whatever is needed to help little companies still figuring out product or managing change.
Personally, drawing, painting and kids sustain me.
A selection of projects I’m proud of thru the years:
1997 Helped birth one of the earliest web-based car configurators. Also helped form one of the early HCI teams in enterprise startups.
1996 VR-Based cubicle creation. This was just as standalone graphics cards became available for desktops.
2001-3 Co-engineered one of the first complete JavaScript component libraries. Grid controls, selection and focus, validation, component lifecycle. Particularly proud of the rules system and grid controls. This was before gmail and maps and docs.
2002: Designed and engineered an early natural-language based constraint creator. For Bayesian inference systems, constraints act in much the same way prompts do for LLMs/genAi systems.
2005: Designed no-code programming and data mapping tools for data appliances.
2006-2018 Ran my own design-engineering consultancy for 12 years (Budgeting, sales, marketing + the work) Saw many bay area startups from PMF thru exit @MarkMonitor, @Vontu, @reputation.com, @nutanix, @axcient, @signaldemand, @mfactor, @podomatic
2018-2025 Learned to manage, teach, and scale design/ design research at a couple of scale-ups: Tophat and BenchSci
2025 working on some personal design/engineering projects in AI
Currently I live in Toronto Canada with my better half and two smaller ones.