Professional Overview
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🔆 I’m a Designer based in Portland, OR, with 10+ years of experience.
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💡 My expertise includes:
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, TouchDesigner
- Specialization in branding, product, web design, UI/UX
- Leadership and communication
- Proven track record of creating compelling visual solutions
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Portfolio
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I bring a creative approach to every project, combining technical skills with innovative design to deliver impactful results for clients.
Available full-time. Pronouns: he/him.
Experience
Branding and Product Designer
Freelance — Remote and Portland, OR (June 2024 – Present)
- Working on contract for numerous brands, my services included full-scale branding, product packaging, mobile and website design solutions for individuals, businesses, SaaS companies, and storefronts.
Senior Designer, Product Designer
WhatStudio™ — Portland, OR (Jan 2023 – May 2024)
- Leadership & Strategic Vision: Drove the creative direction for products and web tools, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs. Established design systems for textiles, web assets, and event themes, integrated company-wide.
- Team Collaboration: Orchestrated cross-functional teams (marketing, designer, developer) to spearhead and deliver 6+ product launches, reducing time-to-market by 15-30% though streamlined workflows.
- Mentorship: Supervised a junior designer, providing art direction and feedback that reduced client revisions by 20%. Collaborated alongside a developer to optimize frontend tooling (AI, MCP) for seamless design-to-code efficiency.
- Innovation: Built future-proof, scalable, adaptive design systems for branding and product iconography, cutting production time 15-50% per project while ensuring pixel-perfect brand consistency across designated platforms.
Graphic Designer, Product Designer
Rickshaw Bagworks — San Francisco, CA (Oct 2020 – Dec 2022, Jun 2024 – Aug 2024)
- Worked as a graphic designer, where I contributed to an in-depth product customizer and designed visual assets for product and web – including textiles, project themes, and events.
- Collaborated with a skilled multidisciplinary team across graphic design and marketing.
UI/UX Designer, Graphic Designer
Festival World — Los Angeles, CA (April 2020 – November 2020)
- Worked as a frontend designer, focusing on branding, mobile, and website design for their organization – a social media and events platform that includes online ticket processing.
- Initiated and designed creative integrations for their social products and ticketing services.