And what can you do for me?

I bring an empathetic and scientific approach to product design leadership: systems, teams, and organized tools for tackling sticky product questions. I'm currently a product design manager, building experiences at a global scale.

As a leader

At Paramount Streaming (Pluto TV / Paramount+), I've hired and led designers on collaborative, cross-platform work (connected TV, mobile, web) for core experiences millions of viewers depend on.

  • Grow design strength without killing craft — collaboratively building processes that grow our product without sacrificing intent.
  • Turn a UX eye on team process: less theater, and more structure that supports everyday behaviors. Task intake and tracking, and the organization of work products, should be rational and improve velocity.
  • Run critiques that raise craft and velocity — growing a shared understanding of system mechanics, not pile-on opinion and vetting sessions. Build a team that collaborates by shaping how the team communicates.
  • Bridge product, business, users, and engineering - learn the language, sit in on discussions, add context and perspective that's meaningful and useful.
  • Treat alignment as an information-architecture problem: clear structure and processes beat hierarchy theater.

What I bring

I shine in complicated scenarios, abstract ideas that need shape, and re-imagination work: strategy through implementation until it works, can be built, and serves a larger mission.

Industries and domains I've wandered through over the years include health and wellness, streaming media, fintech, toys, space, energy. Tech I've wrestled with includes machine learning, blockchain, physical computing, and conversational interfaces. Themes I keep coming back to: human empowerment, exploration, ethics, and serendipity.

As rectiform

rectiform is my design practice. Happy place: exploration, re-imagination, and bridging product, business, users, and the org.

I still take on practice work when the fit is real: system-level product architecture, design strategy, high-context collaboration without enterprise theater.

Open to unusual structures - including interim or fractional design leadership - when the problem needs it. My sweet spot is building and leading design where product and org both have room to grow.

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