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Senior Product Designer · Design Technologist · UX Strategy

Product designer with 3 decades of experience delivering design systems, UX, and front-end work for clients including Disney and Universal Music Group. Deep hands-on fluency across Figma (including plugin development), Framer, Webflow, Rive and front-end code, paired with an early, active embrace of AI-native, agentic design and development workflows - using Figma + Claude, Claude Code, and Cursor to compress multi-week design-to-code pipelines into days. Builds tools and products alongside client work, most recently a personal SaaS app (SMC.art) and a Framer Marketplace plugin (Gligh) built and shipped independently.

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Clients and brands: Disney · Universal Music Group · Mercer · Spartan Race

Highlights

  • Craft depth

    Advanced Figma, including custom plugin development; hands-on in Framer, Webflow, Rive (motion design), HTML/CSS, JavaScript/React.

  • AI-native workflow

    Early adopter of generative AI and agentic tooling: Figma + Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Subframe, v0, MCP integrations.

  • Ships independently

    Regularly builds and launches personal products and tools end-to-end to stay hands-on with new tools and techniques.

  • Enterprise scale

    Shipped design systems, component libraries, and cross-platform (web + mobile) UX for Disney, Universal Music Group, and healthcare clients.

Experience

  1. Senior Product Designer - Halo Media (NYC, Remote)

    Senior Designer → Design Director → Director of Product Design

    • Led the build and technical execution of Halo’s agency website in Framer, from development through launch. Owned the production implementation, mentored another designer on the workflow, and oversaw the launch (live at halopowered.com).
    • Designed the server-driven UI (SDUI)/Flutter mobile app architecture for Disney, establishing Figma as the source of truth and building custom Figma plugins to automate design verification against the system’s components and tokens, and streamline developer handoff.
    • Piloted and stress-tested an emerging AI-native design stack (Figma + Claude, Subframe, Stitch, v0, Claude Code) across design systems, rapid prototyping, high-fidelity UI iteration, and MVP development.
    • Built two internal tools using agentic development (Claude Code, Cursor): a company-wide signature generator and a Jira-integrated intake form system, both shipped solo.
    • Worked across a high-variety client roster - UMG artist experiences, ticketing platforms, healthcare mobile app for Mercer, enterprise workflow tools, and e-commerce - owning design-phase work end-to-end from problem framing through delivery.

    2020-2026

  2. UX Consultant - Abbreviated Media (Self-employed, Plymouth, MA)

    • Led a full information architecture overhaul, rebrand, and WordPress rebuild for CMEEC, a Connecticut energy company.
    • Managed Shopify e-commerce operations for Decas Farms: product launches, template customization, brand refresh.
    • Design and UX lead for Digios, an early digital art NFT marketplace - branding, UI experimentation, prototyping, UX testing.

    2018-2020

  3. Senior Design Lead - Spartan Race (Boston, MA)

    Senior Design Lead → Director of Digital Initiatives → VP of Digital Experience

    • Owned UX strategy and hands-on design for Spartan.com, running ongoing user research, usability testing, and A/B testing to directly improve conversion and engagement (ticket sales).
    • Designed Spartan’s first formal Brand Guidelines and Playbook, establishing brand standards across print and digital.
    • Personally rebuilt a failing website project after being brought in to rescue it - reframed scope and led the build to launch.
    • Led the design and execution behind a single website architecture built to support Spartan’s expansion into international markets.

    2013-2018

Early career

Senior Graphic Designer roles at United Electronic Industries (rebuilt company web and e-commerce architecture; automated core workflows) and Measurement Computing Corp (led brand assets through a major company rebrand; co-developed an internal software spin-off). Additional early roles in art direction, brand identity, and front-end development for startups and self-published projects. Full details available on request.

Skills and tools

  • Design & craft

    Product design, UX strategy, design systems, design tokens, component libraries, interaction design and patterns, motion design, rapid prototyping (high-fidelity), user research, usability testing, A/B testing, accessibility (WCAG), responsive design.

  • Generative AI & agentic development

    Figma + Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Subframe, Pencil.dev, Stitch, AI Studio, v0, MCP integrations.

  • Design tools

    Figma (advanced, including plugin development), Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, InVision, Zeplin.

  • Front-end & low-code

    Framer, Webflow, Rive, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, JAMstack, Shopify, WordPress.

  • Collaboration

    Jira, ClickUp, Notion, Linear, Slack, G Suite.