I build UX teams that ship.
I lead UX teams at Red Hat and serve on its UX leadership team. I bring 15+ years in enterprise software and healthcare. My team of 12, including a manager who reports to me, designs five business software products across infrastructure, security, and AI. I'm also product owner for ai-helpers, our open source AI toolkit for UX work.
I hire, set direction, and get engineering, product, and business behind the same plan.
How I lead
- I get teams out of analysis. We ship a first version, learn from it, and improve. If it doesn't help the business or engineering, we don't build it. On Lightwell, IBM and Red Hat's AI security product, my team shipped two launches in 90 days.
- I follow through. My team's catalog of safer software shipped on time at Red Hat Summit. We moved it to its own app to protect the date.
- I listen to leads and VPs alike. I find the business and engineering pain and turn VP strategy into next steps. On Lightwell, that means keeping UX aligned with engineering, product, and business at both IBM and Red Hat.
- I spot shared problems. Engineering teams were each building their own AI coding setup. All needed the same UX checks, so we built them once and shared them.
I particularly appreciate your genuine curiosity, which sets the necessary foundation for learning what truly works and what challenges we face. Your openness enabled us to start critical discussions…
Career
Red Hat
2021–nowSenior UX Designer, then Associate UX Manager, then UX Manager. I now serve on Red Hat's UX leadership team as a manager, leading a team of 12.
MicroMass
2016–2021Built the UX practice for pharmaceutical clients and earned three promotions. Clients included Novo Nordisk, GSK, AstraZeneca, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson. For Novo Nordisk's 2021 launch of Wegovy, my team designed the product website and the patient support program. Faster UX delivery helped grow the account's revenue 30% in four months.
Earlier
Creative and digital lead roles in video games, government training simulation, media, and advertising agencies.
Recognition
Red Hat AI Excellence Award, Product Engineering, 2025. I led the work that made daily AI use the norm in Red Hat's UX organization within a year, without mandates: education, open experiments, a baseline survey, and tool approvals with legal and security.
Outside work
I'm a husband and dad to two boys.
I play guitar and chase tone. I'm still convincing myself I don't need another drive pedal.
