Experience
Founder & Designer-Engineer
Feb 2025 – PresentPhantom · phantomslides.com · Seattle, WA
- Built a live AI presentation editor end-to-end: React, TypeScript, Claude Code. 98 components, 40+ layout presets, drag-and-drop editor. Designed, engineered, and shipped solo.
- Designed a novel interaction model where an AI agent lives on the canvas as a visible character. It follows your cursor, reacts to edits, and anchors suggestions spatially.
- Three-phase evaluation: 61 component tests, 19 adversarial tests, output quality scoring with documented failure modes.
Lead Product Designer
Feb 2024 – Sep 2025Doorlist · Social events platform · New York, NY
- Drove a strategic pivot to a friends-first product model after discovering users with 3+ connections returned 4x more. Pitched against internal resistance, secured CEO buy-in, proved it across three releases.
- Grew the platform from 45K to 700K users through peer-driven invite flows. Competitors shipped similar features within a year.
- Lifted 7-day retention from 14% to 48% by making friend activity visible on events.
- Launched a responsive booking portal. Paid bookings up 40%, web-to-app installs up 20%.
Product Designer Intern
Sep – Dec 2023CareYaya Health Technologies · Philadelphia, PA
- Designed a modular study-deck builder for caregiver training. 94% NPS in prototype testing.
- Built a Figma design system the team could extend independently. Handoff speed improved 16%.
UX Designer Intern
Sep – Dec 2022Ren · Google Cloud Partner · Remote
- Designed B2B onboarding for factory-level emissions tracking. 2,000+ factories, 5+ enterprise clients, $250K new revenue in three months.
Awards
1st Place, FigBuild 2026
CTE detection platform for NFL team doctors. Led product strategy, systems design, and brain visualization on a team of 4.
Education
University of Washington
2024 – 2026Master of Human-Computer Interaction & Design (MHCI+D)
University of Pennsylvania
2023B.A. Communications · Data & Network Science · Consumer Psychology
Skills
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