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About Me

I've spent my career working in areas where products are complex, the stakes are high, and the path forward isn't always clear.

Most of my work sits between emerging technology and enterprise systems, where shaping an experience often means shaping the idea itself.

I currently lead the Product Design team at Outshift by Cisco. Focused on emerging technology, I work across AI-driven initiatives, multi-agent efforts, platform-scale products, and explorations into new technologies like quantum computing.

My role is a mix of hands-on design, long-term direction, and helping teams bring structure and clarity to ideas that are still forming.

Before Outshift, I held design and leadership roles at Facebook and Infor, working on large platforms and early concepts that needed a strong point of view before they could take shape. I also built a consulting practice, TMRWLab, born out of my experience in private equity.

Across these environments, I've learned to look for the signal inside the system and build around it in a way that helps teams move with steadiness and confidence.

I tend to gravitate toward the spaces where design, engineering, research, and product thinking overlap, and where understanding the problem requires slowing down long enough to ask the right questions.

That's where I do my best work.

Core Values

These are the ideas that shape how I work and how I lead teams.

  • Clarity over noise

    Complexity isn`t the issue. Unclear intent is. I look for the signal a product needs to express so people can stay oriented.

  • Human judgment first

    AI systems need to communicate in ways people can follow. I focus on interactions that respect context, involvement, and trust.

  • Direction through ambiguity

    New ideas often lack boundaries. I help teams find a starting point, create shared understanding, and make steady decisions.

  • Structure enables creativity

    Giving a system shape makes exploration easier. I build frameworks that support experimentation without losing coherence.

  • Design as alignment

    Good design brings teams together around purpose. I work toward clarity that supports engineering, product, and research equally.

  • Steady, considered leadership

    I lead with patience, context, and consistency. I prefer clear thinking over urgency and believe teams do their best work when pressure becomes direction, not noise.