My Story

Speeding Up Business

The last decade of my work has been as a UI designer, going through a problem solving process to design improvements to business processes in the form of digital applications. I have helped modernize and streamline the company’s internal workflows with over 30 websites, apps, and branding projects.

I Speak Developer

I have been the sole designer on a team of developers where I educated them about design thinking and built a design system and tools for the department from the ground up. I have been in the front-end trenches of coding with the devs, writing HTML and CSS.

Bachelor of Science In Design

I started my journey into the design field by studying Industrial Design at The Ohio State University. This was a research based curriculum where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Design.

A bit more…

I am passionate about making the complex simple.

I love to ask "why?" and "yeah, but what does it mean?" My goal in projects and in life is to learn enough about things that I can turn around and teach it to a five year old.

I am incredibly empathetic.

I have a high tolerance for differing opinions, which is becoming more rare. I am humble and know that every person I talk to can teach me something. I have interacted with people from all walks of life, learning from and loving them. I am a great listener and work hard to find out what is meaningful to others.

I have a growth mindset.

I view problems as opportunities, not obstacles. I want to continually improve, every day, every year. I know I will never stop learning.

I am adaptable.

I have held jobs that took me in many different fields where I had to learn systems and processes with fresh eyes over and over. My schooling and professional life have also provided me with opportunities to learn new skills and tools and approaches over and over. This has made me a quick learner and given me the mindset of a continual learner.

Of course I also love making things clean, clear and beautiful.

My design journey has had many forks in the road, starting with art & photography, going to college for industrial design, pivoting to web design, and expanding into UX design.

Personally

I am a family man, with a wife and kids. Because my global church has no paid clergy, I have served in many leadership roles and responsibilities including:
- A two year, full-time, self-paid mission. My role each day was to talk to people, find out about their lives, teach them about my beliefs, and love and serve them.
- Many assignments that have taught leadership skills, formally and hands-on. I have had opportunities to guide and make decisions for youth and adult groups, taking into consideration opposing views, give feedback and advice to others in leadership roles.

I love bringing my design thinking into other creative endeavors like photography, woodworking, playing guitar, and songwriting.

See more of my visual side on Instagram

We live in a time that is starving for humility. To me humility means listening to other perspectives with empathy, trying to understand. Not thinking we're experts or that you're better than anyone. However humility also does not mean putting your
Use the right tool for the right job. You can't hammer a screw. We'll you could but it wouldn't turn out very well. #icondesign #icon #design #logo
Sometimes a shift of perspective will change everything. If you look for the positive you'll find it. If you look for the negative you'll find it. #postit #doodle #sketch #design
Final logo for the I.T. Department #logodesigner #logodesign #logo #designer #design
Action: To-Day is a day of Action. It is the only time we have, so we must stand up, speak up, and Take Action in our lives. The research phase is done, now it's time to do. With Love and Truth, Do the work of Becoming. #icondesign #icondesigner #de
Courage is needed these days. We are capable, of climbing mountains, and being strong and immovable like mountains. Tshirt design I was blessed to help refine for a young women's camp. #tshirtdesign #typography #logo #design
Found this scarlet letter the other day out and about. #artofnoticing #typography #inthewild
Throwback Thursday. This is one of the many sketches I made for my portfolio to get into design school. #sketch #drawing #stilllife
Logo design for Teeples Law firm, along with a select few of the sketches that lead up to the final design. MANY more sketches were explored. #logodesigner #logodesign #logo #designer #design
November is Movember month. A time to remember and think about men’s health, both physical and mental. Men are taught that they have to suck it up and get over whatever pain they’re going thru, “Boys don’t cry.” And we a
LOVE Love lifts up, hate pulls down. If you look for hate you'll find hate, if you look for love you'll find love. Look for love. THE lesson of life is to learn how to love: to love God, to love others, even to love our enemies, and even to love ou
What do you name your colors? This all started with recurring disputes with the wife about what was and wasn't blue. The problem with blue is it's so varying, from cerulean to Indigo. #designsystems #colorsystem #uidesign #designprocess #color #colo

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