I design quietly powerful digital experiences — websites, identities, and communications that say more with less.
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I'm a designer, developer, photographer, and manager who's spent over two decades turning complicated ideas into things people can actually understand and use. At Harvard Library, I lead portfolio and project teams that enable meaningful exploration and reuse of Harvard's collections for researchers everywhere, and I stay hands-on in the scholarly community with design, data visualization, and brand strategy — I don't just manage the work, I still do it. Whatever the medium, my goal is the same: take something complex, make it clear.
I bring a rare combination of technical leadership and design fluency to organizations navigating complexity, currently leading web & discovery engineering at Harvard Library, where I translate institutional strategy into systems that scale. Two decades of cross-disciplinary experience means I can sit in a room with stakeholders, budgets, and roadmaps, and just as easily sit with the engineers building the thing, which shortens the distance between vision and execution. I'm not a specialist who needs translation into business terms — I do the translating.
I've been on both sides of the handoff — leading engineering teams and doing the design and dev work myself — so I understand exactly what you need from a resource and when you need it. I've worked deep in Agile environments for years, so sprint planning, backlog refinement, and story pointing aren't just process to me, they're how I think about scoping work realistically. Because I bridge design, engineering, and communication rather than staying in one lane, I flag risks, scope creep, or unclear requirements before they become blockers, not after, and I make your job easier by reducing the number of people you need to loop in to get a clear answer.
My kindred spirits. I've spent 20+ years working across graphic design, brand strategy, data visualization, and photography, so when we talk about hierarchy, contrast, or the story a layout is telling, I'm speaking your language, not nodding along. But I also ship the code, which means I design with real constraints in mind from the start, not as a compromise handed down after the fact. I care as much about the craft as you do; I just also happen to know what happens to it after it leaves Figma.
I lead engineering teams at Harvard Library, but I'm not a manager who forgot how to build. I still design, write frontend code, and think in systems, so technical tradeoffs aren't abstractions to me. I've spent two decades moving between design and development, which means I can advocate for your time and technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders because I've actually done the work you're doing. When I ask about architecture or scope, it's because I understand what I'm asking.
An interactive literary visualization. Every star in this sky is a classic book from three public corpora including Project Gutenberg's NLTK selection. A topic model (LDA), plus LSA, read all 204 of them (~19 million words) and mapped each one by its themes. Books that share thematic DNA drift together into 12 constellations.
Abbreviated brief to rebrand a Connecticut safety-net nonprofit. Covers challenge with budget/timeline/audience constraints, research with native charts and a competitor 2×2, positioning + pillars + messaging hierarchy, a full visual identity, and rollout mockups with guidelines preview and highlights for its potential launch.
Adapted from my 2024 presentation at HighEdWeb, this self-guided mini-course demonstrates how Agile techniques can be just as effective in far less technical contexts than software development. Now with 100% more bibliography.
A photoessay about the Thinking with Your Eyes symposium at Harvard, which explored the uses of visualization across disciplines and research methods. Across two days, experts shared tools, techniques, and perspectives about what it means to interpret, learn, and teach visually.
Design, for me, is the discipline of restraint: knowing exactly what to leave out so the essential can speak.
My practice is grounded in empathy, systems thinking, and a deep respect for the audience's attention — increasingly enabled by AI, which I use the way I use any tool: to clear away friction, not add to it. I move between disciplines — design, engineering, photography, data visualization, brand strategy — not as separate skills, but as one continuous way of seeing: find the signal, cut the noise, build the system that holds it. Whether I'm leading a team, building a design system, or shaping a campaign, I aim for work that feels inevitable: powerful, yet understated.