Fifteen years across enterprise fintech, education, and early-stage startups — leading design at $290B scale on BILL, founding designer on seven 0→1 products, shipping AI-native products solo in weeks.
Choose your path
Tell me why you're here and the page rearranges itself around what you care about. Change it anytime.
Selected impact
Each answers the same four questions: what changed, why it was hard, what I led, and what it proves.
Reporting had grown as a queue of one-off features. I treated it as a single insights surface — framework before polish, for the firm size that hurts most, then scaled up — and led the team that shipped it.
Verdi packaged a sharp product methodology into a multiplayer co-pilot. I chose the methodology, made it multiplayer-first because it was useless solo, and built AI that captures a team's thinking instead of replacing it.
As a Senior Product Designer I made the case for one design system across Kuali's seven products, recruited the team, and started the "Kuali UI Guild" that outlived me. I later grew into a UX Manager role — driving org-wide change first, title second.
I designed, built, and sold an LMS — the full arc from idea to a product someone wanted to own. The clearest proof I can take ambiguity to something real and valuable.
Designed three users as one system — learner, manager, and admin — and made the org chart the navigation. Validated with paying prospects before a line of code.
Sendola moves money across borders for migrant workers. I joined a small team with brand and a junior designer but no shipping engine — set direction, organized the work, and led them to ship across web, mobile, and admin.
How I lead
The same eight moves, project after project. Pick one to see what I own, what I ask, and where the evidence lives.
Product universe
Every product orbits shared dimensions — fintech, 0→1, systems, AI, scale, leadership. Filter to see the pattern, or grab a node.
The close
I'm just another kid from Lāʻie, Hawaiʻi who learned to build. I care about the people doing the work, clarity over cleverness, and shipping. Looking for a design leadership, founding-designer, or principal role where craft and leadership live in the same person. Remote from Hawaiʻi, open to relocation for the right team.
