About Me
A little about my journey and how I think about product design.
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Running through a hallway with my wife during our wedding photoshoot — May 2025.
I'm a Product Designer based in Houston, Texas with 9+ years of experience designing enterprise software and complex digital products across industries including healthcare, logistics, financial services, and energy.
My work focuses on modernizing legacy systems, designing operational tools, and aligning user experience decisions with real-world business and technical constraints.
Before moving into product design, I started my career as a front-end developer, which gave me a deep appreciation for engineering realities and product feasibility. Today I use that background to bridge the gap between design, engineering, and product strategy, helping teams deliver better solutions faster.
My Journey
My path into design wasn't traditional.
I graduated in 2014 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering in Houston. After struggling to break into the oil and gas industry during a downturn, I pivoted and enrolled in a coding bootcamp to learn web development.
That decision led me into the startup world as a full-stack developer, where I eventually found myself helping a client with design work. What started as a small task quickly became something I fell in love with.
Design felt like a natural fit. I've been painting and drawing most of my life, so product design became the perfect intersection of creativity, problem solving, and systems thinking.
Nine years later, that pivot has turned into a career designing and leading product experiences across complex enterprise environments.
How I Think About Product Design
Great product design sits at the intersection of creativity, structure, and collaboration.
Designers need creativity to explore ideas.
They need structure to build scalable systems.
And they need thick skin to navigate feedback and iteration.
But great products don't emerge from designers alone.
They emerge when design, product, engineering, and stakeholders align around shared goals.
That's why I focus on:
- Creating structure that enables creativity within real constraints
- Facilitating workshops and working sessions that bring teams into the decision-making process
- Balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility when making design decisions
Products improve through cycles of research, feedback, and iteration—not through perfect ideas on the first try.
One Philosophy I Try to Live By
Technology changes constantly.
Careers evolve.
Tools evolve.
Industries evolve.
The mindset that has served me best throughout my career is simple:
Be flexible. Adapt always.