Senior Product Designer
Six years building AI platforms for the Department of Defense — and one AI product shipped solo from zero. I work at the intersection of capability and consequence: where the interface is the difference between clarity and critical error.
Selected Work
Built an AI fly fishing app from zero to production, solo. The real design problem wasn't the camera-to-result flow — it was deciding what the interface does when the vision model isn't sure. Confidence communication, AI explainability, and decision support as first-class product features.
The design system that made a DoD AI platform usable for everyone — not just the engineers who built it.
No pattern library covers this. Some problems require designing for systems where the constraints themselves are classified.
For five minutes, the evaluators weren't watching a demo. They were "Bob Placeholder".
About
I design the human layer of AI systems — making powerful, complex, and often irreversible technology legible to the people who depend on it.
I joined SAIC's Innovation Factory in 2021 as its first UX hire, walking into a 25-person AI division with no design function, no system, and no process. I built all of it — the component library, the interaction patterns, the institutional memory for how user-facing decisions get made.
By 2024 the team had grown to 250+. Then the budget cuts came, and the design role was the first to go. I took it personally for about a week, then decided to go build something myself.
HatchMatch is what came out of that. A production AI vision product, designed and built solo from zero to beta. It's the clearest proof I have that I don't just design products — I think about them.
What I bring
Currently available
Senior product design roles at AI-first companies. Especially interested in teams where the design problem is genuinely hard.