Bad Design Kills

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Costa Mesa, CA
Remotely Worldwide

Product, Interface
& Experience Design

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Starting in UX’s formative years, I guided legacy organizations through software modernization and eased the shift to modern design practices.

As roles specialized into research, UX, and UI, I chose full-time contracting specifically to offer a combined, interdisciplinary approach that has since become standard in product design.

I focus on SaaS/B2B and 0→1 startups, with clients across healthcare, public-sector HR, energy and utilities, gaming, and legal tech.

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A digital estate planning experience for families, translating complex legal tasks into a clear, mobile‑first flow with guided setup, role selection, and approachable visuals.

Digital Estate Planning/Legal Tech
UX/UI Design
Interaction & Motion Design

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Front view of a blank tablet device with rounded corners and a centered front camera.
Webpage section titled Explore with categories Goals, Topics, Protections, and Automations, each with placeholder content blocks.Digital interface screen with a goal titled 'Create Your Legal Will' showing a legal will document icon, description, and a 'Start Goal' button.
Document titled 'Last Will & Testament' with a QR code at the bottom, displayed on a green textured background.Illustration of a parent holding a child under an umbrella with rain falling, labeled 'Current Goal Protecting Your Children' with a progress bar and text 'Next Up: Marie Doe'.Illustration of a safe with cryptocurrency coins and a document, with text encouraging users to make their crypto recoverable in 3 steps and 8 minutes.Illustration of three hands holding a gold key above text about securely transferring passwords in 3 steps and 15 minutes.
Step 1 titled 'Name your Legal Representative' with a section labeled Executor, describing choosing someone to represent and oversee the execution of your plan until assets are distributed, accompanied by an illustration of hands holding a map with icons.Step 2: Decide how to distribute your assets with inheritance wizard guidance, showing a hand holding a red gem icon.

Zen Ecosystems

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Energy management tools for commercial buildings, streamlining device control and real‑time savings insights with a system‑wide IA and operator‑friendly dashboards.

Energy & Utilities/IoT
SaaS, B2B Product Design
User Interface Design

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Digital display showing the temperature as 73 degrees.Digital thermostat display showing temperature set to 68 degrees.Thermostat display showing a temperature of 70 degrees.Digital display showing the temperature 65 degrees.Rounded square icon displaying a green 78% percentage.Digital display showing temperature of 73 degrees.
Dashboard screen for 10 Whatney site in Zen HQ showing alerts with notes about battery replacement, runtime report, and schedule assignments, plus collapsible sections for 1st and 2nd floors.
Thermostat display for Meeting Room 1 showing current temperature 73.5°F, cooling set to 60°F, heating set to 70°F, and a note that demand response ended yesterday at 2:05 AM.Thermostat display showing Meeting Room 2 temperature at 68.8 degrees with cooling set at 60 and heating at 70, and a note saying Demand Response Ended.Display showing Reception Area 1 temperature at 70.1 degrees with icons for 60 degrees cooling and 70 degrees heating; a notification indicates Demand Response ended yesterday at 2:05 AM.Thermostat display showing 'Open Floor 1' with current temperature 65.6 degrees, cooling set to 60 degrees, heating set to 70 degrees, and a notification stating 'Demand Response Ended' from yesterday at 2:05 AM.Open floor lighting at 78% brightness, currently on, with a note indicating demand response ended yesterday at 2:05 AM.Temperature display for Reception Area 2 showing current temperature at 73.1 degrees, cooling setpoint at 60 degrees, heating setpoint at 70 degrees, and a notification that demand response ended yesterday at 2:05 AM.

Nextgen Mobile

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An iOS companion app for physicians, designed through in‑clinic observation and rapid iteration with partner clinics to streamline charting and point‑of‑care tasks.

Healthcare Technology/Electronic Healthcare Records
UX/UI Design

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Versus Systems

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Engagement and promotions platform, reworking the match flow and reward redemption to make interactive campaigns faster to launch and easier to understand.

Gaming & Engagement
UX/UI Design
Brand Development

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Cover image for Versus Systems portfolio piece. The image is of the Versus Systems logo that I designed

Enersponse

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Demand response management for utilities and enterprises, unifying dispatch, enrollment, and performance tracking into a data‑dense workflow that reduces operational friction.

Energy & Utilities/Demand Response
SaaS, B2B Product Design
Information Architecture

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Dashboard interface showing 'Sites' under My Org tab with a list of Lowes company sites, including columns for Name, Control Provider, Store Number, Address, Utility, Market/Load Zone, and meter details.
Enersponse dashboard showing a list of offline sites with company names, addresses, utilities, market/load zones, and other details.
Enersponse Sites page showing a list of Zeus Digital company sites with details like Control Provider, Store Number, Address, Utility, and Market Load Zone filtered by CAISO.
Dashboard interface showing a list of sites under 'My Org' tab with columns for company, name, control provider, store number, address, and utility details.
Dashboard screen of ENERSPONSE platform showing a list of Lowes sites filtered by no enrollment ID with columns for company, name, control provider, store number, address, utility, market/load zone, and meters.

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