I like working with smart people to build great products.

I'm good at

designing consumer products, building websites, planning product lines, user testing, concept generation, drawing, market analysis, research, design software, collaborating with overseas manufacturers, hand-coding XHTML & CSS, task analysis, and life-cycle analysis.

I'm getting good at

product photography, building databases, overseas sourcing, identity design, creating & managing brand equity, copywriting, classical Latin, and reading German.

I've worked with

Brand New Box Web Design & Development | San Diego | August 2007 - present

Nearly all duties are shared at this two-man web design & development firm. Brand New Box creates goal-driven web solutions for businesses, NGOs, and independent artists. Our current startup project is City Gates, a content managment system for great church websites.

Cosmosupplylab | Hong Kong | August 2006 - July 2007

Cosmo creates high-quality promotional goods for international brands. During my time in Hong Kong, I worked intensely with manufacturers, and designed and developed products for clients like Apple, Auerhahn, Bacardi, BMW, Cybex, Omega, Saab, Toshiba, Toyota, Volvo, WMF, and World Youth Day.

Cardinal Brands | Lawrence KS | May 2004 - July 2006

As the sole product designer for Generations, I designed storage and organization products for the craft and hobby market. This included market research, user testing, technical development, overseeing development of prototypes overseas, and product photography. I spent a whole lot of time with scrapbooking clubs.