Work Experience

& Resume

Seeking a full-time Senior, Staff, or Principal IC Product Design role.

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Indie Product/Designer/Engineer Self

AIQuota: Designed, built and shipped a little native macOS menu bar utility that lets you track Codex and Claude Code usage at a glance, without opening a browser.
SendMoi: Also, created an iOS and macOS app using AI coding tools to accelerate iteration from concept through release.

Principal Designer Resy (American Express Global Dining Network)

Led end-to-end Design of Product features across both Consumer and Restaurant platforms, for Web, iOS and Android:

Resy App Discovery & Navigation Re-architecture: Launched a new in-app Discovery View anchored by Resy Editorial and algorithmic Collections, supporting native Booking and Add-to-Lists, driving deeper user engagement and retention. Additionally, re-mapped the app's Architecture to adopt a more modern, sheet-based, gestural paradigm.
ResyOS Web Booking: Conducted User Research with strategic restaurant customers, concepted and prototyped iterations, and shipped a more streamlined and intuitive UX/UI for restaurant customers.
Defining and refining the role of Principal Designer (IC Director-level) within the org: By providing vision and leadership for our Consumer products, as well as leading a Product Design process that both innovates and brings the team along.

Head of Design / Design Lead Resy

Led all aspects of Design post-Series A, including Product, Brand, Experiential and Editorial:

Product Vision: Redesigned resy.com Consumer Website, bringing together Content, Discovery and Booking in one place.
Team Building: Recruited, hired and managed a team of five Designers focused on Resy's core B2B SaaS (iOS & Web) and B2C (iOS/Android Apps & Web) products.
Evolved the brand and how it's expressed in our products, events and marketing, setting a new visual direction.

Head of Design Wayward Wild

Led design for this pre-investment startup, partnering with small media brands to grow audiences through strategic consulting, branding, technology and design.

(Investment fell through)

Product Design Manager BuzzFeed

Managed a team of product designers focused on Ad Tech (distribution, reporting, workflow tools) and Data Learning (dashboards, metrics) for editorial and business, providing guidance, setting goals and encouraging accountability:

Collaborated closely with peers in Product and Engineering to establish high-level objectives for the teams and how to measure their success, balancing speed, quality and consistency of design.
Led a re-write of Product Designer Roles document, resulting in a clear, actionable and scalable framework for bar-setting. Also, contributed to Design Leadership Principles, eventually used throughout the larger Tech organization.
Previously, managed a team of product designers focused on Editorial Tools & Site Experience, including the BuzzFeed CMS, experimental formats and website.

Deputy Editor, Digital News Design The New York Times

Co-led a team of nine digital designers in the newsroom to conceive, design and code visually-rich story presentations, interactive features and special packages for planned news events like the Olympics, Elections and the World Cup, across all platforms:

Directed the digital expression of enterprise stories from the planning stages through publish, collaborating closely with designers and technologists, reporters and their editors, as well as photo, video and graphic journalists.
Recruited designers, technologists and producers, both for my team and for product teams outside the newsroom.
Introduced team workflows with Trello, Slack and Google Docs, to capture incoming requests, assign and manage work, and ensure transparency and accountability across the team.

Design Lead, Digital News Design The New York Times

Led digital design in the newsroom, including the 2012 election-season digital presentation efforts, with multimedia features and packaging; designed and directed the presentation of the home page and live coverage on Election Night.

Editorial Designer, Digital Design The New York Times

Designed NYT Real Estate listings iOS app, and The Scoop, an Arts & Leisure-focused iOS app; rebranded and designed The Opinion Pages section, featuring the first NYT use of branded typography via Typekit.