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
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.