Designer. Builder. Desert dweller.

My superpower is a mix of intuition and ideas that seem obvious to me but apparently aren't obvious to everyone else. I've been taking things apart and putting them back together differently since I was a kid. Remote controlled cars, mostly. In high school I taught myself HTML and CSS in the school library and helped redesign sections of the school website. Nobody asked me to. I just wanted to see if I could.

Four decades of that same curiosity later and it's just how I think. Pattern recognition, creative problem solving, and a stubborn belief that most things can be done better. Those aren't skills I developed, they're just how I'm wired.

I'm based in Scottsdale with my bull terrier Diego, who makes life considerably stranger. I've spent the last decade practicing tarot as a decision-making framework, structured enough that I built an app around it. I also run a YouTube channel built on gaming and music, and somewhere in the long-term plan is either retiring to make music full time or opening a karaoke bar. Whichever comes first.

Brands I've worked with

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Professional Experience

Founder & Principal Designer

Savelle LLC • March 2021 - Present

Scottsdale, AZ

This is my own shop. I take on client work and build my own products, and I run on an AI-augmented workflow that lets me move fast without cutting corners.

  • Designed and built Card Ritual, a tarot journaling app, solo: product design, front and back end code, and brand
  • Use Claude and Claude Code every day, from early concepts to shipped code

Digital Experience Director

Green Compass, LLC • February 2024 - November 2024

Scottsdale, AZ

I owned the digital side of the customer journey at this CBD wellness company: enrollment, branding, email, video, and the back office. It's a heavily regulated industry, so compliance had to be built into almost everything.

  • Redesigned the back office and self-service support tools, cutting customer service calls by 25%
  • Simplified the enrollment flow, which dropped cart abandonment by 12% and increased enrollments by 15%
  • Directed brand and content across email, social, web, and video, and built a design system so campaigns shipped faster

UI/UX Designer

iFoodDS • January 2020 - March 2021

Scottsdale, Arizona

Redesigned the core product for an agriculture software company, used on phones and desktop by people in the field and in the office.

  • Reworked the main workflows so common tasks took fewer steps and generated fewer support tickets
  • Rebuilt the interface with a modern JavaScript framework so it worked the same across devices
  • Worked closely with the backend team to keep the front end and the API in sync

Front-end UI Developer

SyberSafe • February 2019 - November 2019

Chandler, Arizona

Built the front end for a cybersecurity compliance platform used by more than 50,000 people, working alongside the dev team.

  • Built UI components in Angular and .NET
  • Designed the brand identity and marketing materials
  • Built layouts for dense data and dashboards that held up across screen sizes

UI/UX Designer

Plexus Worldwide • August 2016 - February 2019

Scottsdale, AZ

I was the first dedicated designer on the marketing team and led three major platform redesigns over two and a half years.

  • Designed and built a custom e-commerce platform, replicated site builder, and back-office dashboard used by thousands of ambassadors
  • Built an atomic design system with a Sketch component library that cut design-to-development handoff time by 60%
  • Ran ongoing A/B tests to keep improving the product based on real data

Senior Web Designer

PetSmart • September 2015 - July 2016

Greater Phoenix Area

Worked on the e-commerce redesign for a site with millions of monthly visitors, where even small changes had a big ripple effect.

  • Owned the homepage experience, the highest-traffic page on the site
  • Led design for the Universal Studios "Secret Life of Pets" brand partnership
  • Reworked the checkout flow so more of that traffic converted

Earlier Roles

2006 - 2015

Before that, roles at HomeSmart, Simple Sites, Xhibit Corp, and Zion & Zion took me through real estate tools, custom client sites, interactive museum exhibits, and e-commerce and marketing work for clients like General Motors, the Arizona Science Center, and Sotheby's.

Education

BA in Game Design

Collins College • 2003 - 2006

Studied Game Design, Graphic Design, Computer Science, and Computer Arts

Skills & Expertise

Design

  • UX/UI Design
  • Atomic Design Systems
  • User Research
  • A/B Testing
  • AI-Enhanced Workflows

Development

  • React & Angular
  • Component Architecture
  • Responsive Design
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Performance Optimization

Strategy

  • Digital Marketing
  • E-commerce Optimization
  • Analytics & ROI
  • Team Leadership
  • Cross-functional Collaboration

Anyway, that's me.