Product and design leadership for complex products.

I help product, design, and technology leaders move upstream from visible usability problems to the product decisions behind them. I translate customer behavior, expert workflows, technology, and organizational priorities into shared direction, reduced risk, and measurable value.

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Selected Work

Three projects where the hardest problem wasn't the interface — it was getting everyone to agree on what problem they were actually solving.

Transforming a Mission-Critical Scientific Platform

Defined the modernization strategy and workflow-centered architecture for an 18-year legacy platform used by materials scientists—reframing the product beyond instrument-centric design and aligning product, engineering, and business stakeholders around a shared direction.

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TA Instruments information architecture

My role: Defined the workflow architecture and modernization strategy for reframing the platform around scientists' research processes, and built the cross-functional alignment behind it.

AI-Assisted Decision Support for Materials Research

Defined product strategy and design for an AI-assisted informatics platform that helped scientists navigate complex material composition spaces and accelerate discovery. Bridged advanced ML capability and research workflow to create a tool scientists could trust and act on.

Scientists estimated 10–25% faster scientific discovery

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Corning Materials Informatics data visualization

Helping materials scientists navigate complex composition spaces through interactive visualization.

Designing the Human Layer in an AI Workflow

Led product vision and design strategy for a professional curation platform that orchestrated 30+ ML algorithms into a calibration-driven workflow. Reduced review time from approximately 18.5 hours to about 1 hour — not by automating photographer judgment, but by making AI recommendations legible, adjustable, and trustworthy.

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Curator AI photo curation workflow

From 30+ Algorithms to One Curator Experience
Designed the orchestration layer that transformed machine learning outputs into a curator-controlled workflow, reducing review time from approximately 18.5 hours to about 1 hour.

My Practice

I think of design as a translation discipline.

Design translates current customer experiences into product improvement opportunities.

  • Customer behavior → Improvement opportunities
  • How experts work → User-centered products
  • User workflows → Information architecture
  • Workarounds → Unmet needs

Perspectives

These articles diagnose the organizational patterns that most reliably limit product and design impact — and describe how to address them. They reflect the same approach I bring to practice: understanding why a system produces its current results before trying to change it.