Resume

I take products from a vague idea to shipped, polished software. I do product design, engineering, and brand work. As principal at Metamodern, I partner with founders and product teams to build AI-native software end to end.

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Expertise

Systems thinking across product, design, + engineering
AI product strategy + roadmapping
Agentic AI architectures + multi-agent systems
Data-informed experimentation + decision making
Product design leadership + UX
Mentoring, facilitation, and cross-functional communication

Experience

Solo Founder

The Pick AI

Venice

2024 +

Built and run a sports-betting product across three surfaces on one intelligence layer: an autoresearch swarm, a consumer chat on iOS and the web, and Sharp Shell, a power-user terminal agent
Shipped 500 paying subscribers at 30% daily active, growth one hundred percent organic since the 2024 NFL season Telegram launch
Run a fully autonomous autoresearch swarm with positive ROI on every model in the production portfolio after the house edge; strongest single model holds above 30% ROI across three NBA seasons
Own product design, frontend, backend, native iOS, ML, data infrastructure, the brand, and the marketing site

Principal, AI Product & Engineering

Metamodern Studio

Venice

2021 +

Run a creative-technology studio building AI-native products, agentic systems, and full-stack applications for startups and growth-stage teams
Design and ship multi-step AI agents, tool-calling, memory systems, and RAG pipelines that plug into real business workflows
Teach engineering teams to code with AI through hands-on sessions, internal playbooks, and pairing on safe, reliable patterns
Partner with founders on strategy from opportunity mapping and KPI models through UX prototypes and production launches

Director, Product Design

Bambee

Los Angeles

2017 – 2023

Joined at five people. Director of Product Design through Series C: zero to 10,000 small-business customers, $25M ARR, $65M raised, $400M+ valuation
Hired and led a team of three designers across consumer product, the internal HR-manager platform, and the onboarding revenue engine
Built Pollen, the design system that ran across both product surfaces in Figma, Storybook, and code
Designed the onboarding funnel that drove the business: an adaptive flow with conversational, guided, and bulk modes, plus OCR-based document processing for larger accounts

Head of Product

Vet On Demand

Santa Monica

2014 – 2015

Built and led product on a pet-telehealth app shipped by the four-person software shop I ran. Founders approached the shop directly
Led design across native iOS, native Android, and the browser-based clinical portal. Built the iOS and provider-portal frontends. Shaped the brand the product launched under
Recruited US-distributed veterinarians as equity partners before any code was written; their practical insight shaped the compliance model and clinical workflow, and they were the first providers at launch
Reached 20,000 users with national press in Yahoo Finance, Forbes, and Fierce Pharma. US VCPR law (a preexisting in-person-exam requirement) stopped the remote-only model

Lead Designer & Software Engineer

Environmental Science Corporation

Nashville

2013 – 2014

Led product design and front-end engineering for a complete rebuild of myESC, the laboratory management system at the largest environmental testing lab in the US
Created user journeys, functional specifications, and wireframes
Designed the scientific reporting layer that delivered defensible data at scale

Founding Designer

Life is Beautiful Festival

Las Vegas

2012 – 2013

At 24, my three-person studio won a five-agency pitch for the year-one festival anchoring Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project
Owned every visual surface: brand identity, the Heart logo, 10,000+ pieces of signage across 18 city blocks, stage graphics, and the merchandise line
Built the festival's CMS on .NET with a REST API feeding the website I designed and built, plus the native mobile app shipped by a separate team
70,000 people on opening day. The Heart was on free tattoos by midday with 30 to 40 people in line to get one

Founder / Principal

The Funky Umbrella

Nashville

2010 – 2012

Founded and ran a small marketing-and-advertising agency in Nashville
Designed logos, collateral, advertising, and websites for local and regional businesses across hospitality, retail, and music

Skills

AI & Agentic Systems

LangGraph
OpenAI Agents SDK
Anthropic Agent SDK
RAG pipelines
Vector databases
Mem0
Zep
Agentic memory patterns
Tool orchestration
Multi-step AI agents
Tool-calling strategies
Prompt orchestration
Evaluation frameworks
Tracing
Guardrails
ML infrastructure frameworks
Generative AI creative workflows
Image generation

Engineering

JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
HTML
CSS
React
React Native
Next.js
Node.js
Express
SwiftUI
GraphQL
REST APIs
Postgres
Supabase
Redis
dbt
Data pipelines
Authentication systems
Payment processing
Native mobile (iOS)
Frontend architecture
Backend engineering
Infrastructure
Git/GitHub
Performance optimization

Product Design

Figma
Framer
Protopie
Webflow
Adobe Creative Cloud
Design systems
Design tokens
Component libraries
Figma-to-code sync
Interaction design
Information architecture
Wireframing
Prototyping
Usability testing
User research
User journey mapping
Product strategy
Opportunity mapping
Brand identity
Visual storytelling
Responsive web design
Mobile application design

Education

University of Colorado

Boulder

2010

School of Journalism & Mass Communication

BS Advertising Art Direction
BFA Creative Writing