UX Team LeadAI Product DesignerLakewood Ranch, FL

I design AI products, and the teams that ship them.

18 years turning tangled problems into products that move a real metric. Most recently I scaled a product team from 2 to 12 at ESAB and launched two enterprise AI products from scratch.

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  • ESAB
  • Disney On Ice
  • Monster Jam
  • IMG Academy
  • SuperMotocross
  • Bubbly Belle
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The receipts

$1.2M/mo

Revenue at Bubbly Belle, grown from zero as the sole designer, at 4x the industry conversion rate.

1sfrom 13s

AI search response time at ESAB, across 12 languages, designed and launched from scratch.

613%

Increase in lead generation across a portfolio averaging 580K monthly sessions.

+12NPS

Net Promoter Score moved from 26 to 38 through research, clearer IA, and faster tasks.

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Selected work

All case studies
  1. ESABAI Product7 min

    Cutting AI search from 13 seconds to one, in 12 languages.

  2. ESABiOS6 min

    A published iOS app that controls a welding helmet over Bluetooth.

  3. Bubbly BelleDTC Growth5 min

    Growing a DTC brand from zero to $1.2M monthly revenue.

  4. Disney On IcePlatform6 min

    A global marketing platform across 42 countries and 70 languages.

  5. Monster JamPlatform7 min

    Powering 340M monthly requests for a global live motorsport tour.

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How I work

"I'm a player-coach. I'm in the work with my team, not above it."
A

Set the conditions, then get out of the way

The best thing a leader can do for the business is build a team that operates with judgment when I'm not in the room.

Leadership
B

Take something tangled, ship something that performs

AI products, enterprise platforms, e-commerce funnels, design orgs. The shape changes, the job doesn't.

Problems I solve
C

Psychology major who codes

I prototype in the real medium. Side projects live in the Lab, including an Xbox 360 dashboard my son bet me I couldn't build.

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