When I was a child, one night I looked up at the night sky and remarked how the crescent moon looked like the tip of my fingernail. My family got a kick out of that remark and it certainly wasn't the last time I challenged the way things were seen.

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I spent my childhood in quiet exploration of my senses, soaking up many perspectives and pathways, grounded in observation, feeling and memory: retracing finger sequences in the works of famous music composers, collecting and organizing hundreds of buttons before falling asleep between mountainous rolls of textiles, flying overseas every summer as a UM, creating catalogs of clothing that weren't available for my paper dolls. These were all outside of my comfort zone at the time, yet they became an indelible and defining part of who I intrinsically am. I'd say a defining moment of this arc was when I took a high school yearbook class and created an illustration that looked very much like a Where's Waldo drawing; I accounted for the hundreds of students I saw each day - each individual and group at their usual spots, characterized by their personal sartorial aesthetics. It was my way of weaving together all of the varied experiences and treasured snippets I had collected - put together in a way that was much more personalized than a photo; the intent was not so much catalogue, but memorable.

 

I played piano competitively throughout high school but ultimately decided to pursue the visual arts. Familiar to honing myself through high levels of practiced discipline and achievement for years, I graduated from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Illustration.

 

Apparel was my first professional passion, and through that route, I spent many years as a physical product designer in consumer products. My personal path of exploration however, continued, and the transition into the digital product space happened organically as my interest in tech, social and humane issues evolved.

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Being a product designer,  to me, is not unlike that drawing I did for yearbook class. It's about synthesizing an immense amount of information, context, and application of such, in addition to the dexterity required of the mechanical skillset to produce an end product. At the end of the day, we are interacting with everything around us at varying levels, and what stays with us is the memory and experience of those things.

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My mission is to craft memorable experiences that preserve what makes each of us delightfully human.