Senior / Staff Product Designer

Strategy to production. Zero handoff.

Ten years of complex B2B SaaS. Senior IC through Director. Designer-developer who ships the full stack: strategy, design, and working code. The thing I design is the thing that ships.

Recent work

Grimoire Solo design + build + GTM. Live in production in 15 days. AI deck coach for Magic: The Gathering.
Ascend Solo design + build. Shipped in 10 weeks. Agent UX for executive function.
Carlyle Lead UX on confidential AI investment platform. Replaced Excel for three analyst tiers.
Cereba Principal AI/UX. Self-building agents. Live in 20 minutes, zero prompts.

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Selected Work

Four projects. Each one earned the page.

Grimoire · Solo design + build · 2026

A production Magic: The Gathering deck builder with an AI coach. Strategy, design, code, and go-to-market from one seat — live in 15 days.

Stands on parity with Moxfield and Archidekt and wins on one wedge: an agentic AI Deck Coach that builds a legal Commander deck from the cards you already own. 66,761 lines of TypeScript, 406 commits, a creator referral program in the codebase from week one.

Ship time: 15 days
Scope: Solo end-to-end + GTM
Stack: Next.js + Claude

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Grimoire's deck editor showing a Commander deck list with live prices, owned-vs-needed tracking, and a legality warning

15 days

Ascend · Solo design + build · 2026

Solo designer-developer. Shipped a working AI app in 10 weeks. The product catches the moment a user freezes at their to-do list and returns one next move.

An AI-native app that catches the moment someone freezes at their to-do list and quietly returns one micro-step. Built end-to-end as solo designer-developer.

Ship time: 10 weeks
Scope: Solo end-to-end
Stack: Next.js + Claude Code

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Ascend app showing the Clarity Loop micro-step interface

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Carlyle · Lead UX · 2025–2026

Got three analyst tiers out of Excel and into the platform. Role-based workflows from entry analyst to leadership review.

The schema-first MVP forced every analyst into the same Excel export loop. The redesign built three distinct workflows — entry, senior, leadership — each tuned to the work that role actually does, with AI-assisted calculations in-platform. The export loop went away.

Role: Lead UX
Scope: Three analyst tiers
Outcome: Excel export loop replaced

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Generalized view of the Carlyle AI investment platform: assumptions, fund inputs, and version history

NDA

Cereba · Principal AI/UX Designer · 2024–2025

Conversational AI that builds itself. Live in 20 minutes, zero prompts.

Solved the blank-prompt problem with a conversational onboarding system (C.O.R.E. Intent). The user answers questions; the AI configures itself. No prompt engineering, no training data, no setup. Just answer and launch.

Time-to-live: 20 minutes
Setup: Zero prompts
Role: Principal AI/UX

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0 Prompts

Selected projects only. Ten years of additional work available on request.

Approach

I design in code now.

Most AI products wait for a prompt. The ones I design notice what's happening and move first.

Research, strategy, user flows, and information architecture first, built as documentation in the repo with AI. Then design in code, with Cursor, Claude Code, and Claude Design in the loop. Prototype, ship, validate, iterate on data. Figma stays in the toolkit when collaboration or design-system work needs it. Real user research stays in the toolkit when the problem needs direct insight. The point is the full loop: discovery to production to validation, all in one place.

Cursor · Claude Code · Claude Design · Antigravity · Figma · Next.js · Tailwind

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About

Senior UX through Director, across complex B2B SaaS. Research, strategy, information architecture, and systems design across every role. Most recent year: Lead UX at Carlyle on a confidential AI investment platform for analysts and senior execs, the work that got them out of Excel and into the platform. Now a designer-developer working on agent UX, conversational interfaces, and the design systems that make complex platforms legible. I run discovery, test with users, ship production code, and iterate on data. Embedded with engineering, or solo when speed matters. North Smithfield, RI. Remote-only, Senior / Staff / Lead IC.

Off the clock: lives in North Smithfield, RI with his wife and two kids. Coaches his son's basketball team. Plays Magic: The Gathering, reads Marvel Comics, still draws by hand.

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