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AI Product Director.
Human-Centered
Builder. Strategist.

I bridge product strategy, human-centered design, and AI execution — helping organizations build AI-native products and develop the capabilities to keep building them. 25+ years of product and UX leadership, with two years of deep AI experimentation across every layer of the stack.

25+
Years Product & UX Leadership
52+
AI Experiments & Deployments
F500
Enterprise Experience
20+
AI Agents Designed
1st
GenAI Design Hackathon
The Generative Human Framework

Experienced humans are more precious now.

Not less. The organizations replacing people with AI are about to learn something expensive.

01

The Repentance Pattern

Organizations are discovering that replacing experienced judgment with AI output creates a different problem: no one left who can tell when the AI is wrong. I've watched this cycle from inside enterprise AI transformation. The first round of regret is already happening.

"The companies that gutted their design and product teams are now rebuilding the human judgment layer."
02

The Irreplaceable Layer

AI is spectacular at pattern completion. It cannot do problem discovery. It cannot tell you which problem is worth solving. It cannot navigate organizational politics, read a room, or know when a product decision needs a human champion. That's a different kind of intelligence.

"AI has all the wings. You still have to choose which one to fly."
03

The Noise is Deafening

Organizations and leadership teams are drowning in AI vendor noise. New models every week. New frameworks every month. No one with the cross-functional fluency to cut through and say: here's what actually moves your business, here's what's a distraction, here's where to start.

04

The Generative Human

25 years of product and UX judgment. 2 years of deep AI experimentation across 6 industry domains. I've built the map others are still being handed directions to. I can walk alongside your leadership — not selling AI, but making your organization genuinely AI-capable.

"Application is the new education. I've done the application."

Pattern Recognition as Proof of Experience

The speed is not the achievement. The achievement is recognizing patterns quickly because they have been seen before. Twenty-five years of product, UX, systems thinking, and organizational experience allows movement from ambiguity to working solutions faster than traditional teams. AI accelerates execution. Experience determines direction.

MiroFish: Recognized the spatial canvas opportunity immediately — not because of tool familiarity, but because the UX pattern was already understood from years of information architecture work.

TaskForce: Multi-agent orchestration designed with human review gates at three critical points — because the failure modes of autonomous AI were understood before a line was written.

Finding Penguin: Zero-backend architecture chosen not as a constraint but as a deliberate platform strategy — the kind of decision that comes from understanding product economics, not just technical options.

The Framework
ObserveUnderstand the human pain, not the AI spec
PrototypeBuild a real thing fast — judgment beats planning
ValidateReal users, real feedback — not theoretical
LearnFail fast, extract the lesson, rebuild better
ShipOnly the things that passed human validation
Who I Am

Beyond the designer/developer binary

There's a third lane emerging in AI organizations — and I've been building it for two years.

01

25 years of product and UX leadership

Enterprise UX for Fortune 500 clients, product strategy across six industry domains, and two years of deep AI immersion — building, failing, learning, and building again. The design and product fluency didn't go away when AI arrived. It became the lens that made AI output actually usable.

"I can tell the difference between AI noise and AI signal — because I've seen both in production."
02

Experience determines direction. AI accelerates execution.

The speed of AI-assisted development is not the achievement. The achievement is recognizing patterns quickly because they have been seen before — and knowing which problems are worth solving before a single line is written. That judgment comes from decades of product work, not from the tools.

"The methodology came from failure, not theory."
03

The full AI SDLC — from idea to org readiness

I understand the entire AI product lifecycle: human problem framing → concept validation → AI-assisted build → agentic pipeline design → responsible deployment → org capability building. I can direct teams at every layer and create the AI readiness clarity organizations are struggling to find.

04

Human-in-loop is my operating principle

Every AI product I've built is designed around one question: where does the human belong, and what does that moment feel like? Not as a safety checkbox — as the core design decision. That conviction comes from building real products where I got it wrong first.

"AI fills. Humans verify. That's not a limitation — it's the design."
AI + Human-Centered Design

AI is the tool.
Humans are the product.

Principles formed through real builds, not theory. Here's how I think about designing AI products.

01

Human Problem First

Every AI product starts with a non-AI question: what is the actual human cost of the current experience? Pain points, friction, and failed workarounds — before touching any AI framing.

User Interviews Journey Mapping Shadow Sessions
02

AI Opportunity Framing

Which moments in the journey are repetitive, predictable, or data-rich? Map the AI opportunity space — where it adds signal vs. where it adds noise.

Opportunity Mapping Data Audit
03

Design the Human-AI Loop

The interaction contract: what does AI decide autonomously, what does it suggest, what does the human always control? This is the UX architecture beneath the surface.

Figma Trust Design Interaction Design
04

Build + Test with AI

Use Claude, Cursor, Lovable and Gemini to build the actual product alongside the design. Feedback is about the real thing, not a simulation.

Claude / Cursor Lovable / Bolt Supabase
05

Ship → Observe → Refine

AI products drift. I build observability into AI features from day one — so products can learn without losing user trust.

Analytics A/B Testing User Feedback

Human-in-Loop Design

The hardest thing to get right in AI product design isn't the AI. It's knowing exactly where the human belongs — and designing that moment to feel natural, not like an interruption.

AI fills, humans verify. Default outputs are AI-generated. The human's job is review, not creation.

Confidence is surfaced, not hidden. When AI is uncertain, the product says so. Users trust what they understand.

Override is always one tap. Human control is never more than one interaction away. AI helps, never gatekeeps.

Learning is bidirectional. When humans correct AI, the product gets better. Corrections are data, not failures.

Interaction Loop
HumanSets intent with minimal input
AIGenerates complete output draft
HumanReviews, adjusts, approves
AILearns from corrections
HumanPublishes / Acts
AI Tools in My Workflow

Not a list of what I know —
a list of what I've shipped with.

Claude (Anthropic)

Primary AI pair programmer and reasoning engine — directed the full Ventura product architecture across 137 commits using Claude via Cursor.

Pair Programming · Product Reasoning

Gemini (Google)

Integrated as AI insights engine in OEM Portal. Powers content generation in Creator Studio.

API Integration · AI Insights

Cursor + Lovable

AI-native development environment. The canvas where design intent becomes real, deployable code.

AI-Assisted Dev · Product Execution

n8n + LangChain + MCP

Agentic pipeline design. Orchestrated 20-agent research system synthesizing 40+ live data sources.

Agentic Systems · Orchestration
2.4×
Productivity Multiplier

Measured across the Ventura investment platform build — AI-assisted vs. traditional team baseline

12d
Idea to Deployed Platform

Creator Studio: monolith rebuilt into multi-tenant AI content platform

80%
Creator Effort Reduced

AI-fill model: one sentence → eight complete content fields

30m
Research Delivered

20-agent system delivering what 3–5 analysts need 2–3 hours to produce

Case Studies

Work that ships.

Every project here went from idea to deployed product. Real users, real systems, real outcomes.

Ventura — Opportunities pipeline
50+
Features
AI SaaS · FinTech

Ventura — Investment Coordination Platform

Designed and directed end-to-end development of a production-grade investment coordination SaaS — 50+ features, full-stack architecture (React/TypeScript, Supabase, Stripe, Gemini), and a validated human-AI workflow that demonstrates how AI-assisted development changes software economics.

15K+
Lines of Code
50+
Features Shipped
2.4×
Productivity Gain
ReactTypeScript SupabaseClaude AIStripe
Creator Studio
12d
Concept → Deploy
AI Platform · Content

Creator Studio — AI Influencer Platform

Rebuilt a 3,144-line monolith into a production-grade, multi-tenant AI content platform in 12 days. Core design insight: one natural language sentence replaces 8 form fields — AI fills everything, humans tweak.

80%
Creator Effort ↓
1→8
Input → Outputs
Multi-tenant
Architecture
SupabaseGemini Kling AIMulti-tenant
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2.8d
Avg Approval
Enterprise UX · Platform Strategy

OEM Partner Portal — Product Lifecycle Dashboard

Designed the unified partner workspace replacing fragmented workflows across Google Forms, email, Buganizer, Accord, and Taskflow — saving 8–12 weeks per product lifecycle. AI insight panel surfaces next actions automatically; partners self-serve end-to-end across Smartphone, Tablet, Wearable, and TV/Home categories.

94.2%
Validation Pass Rate
48
Devices Certified
8–12wk
Saved per Lifecycle
UX StrategyGemini AI OTA & TokensCertification
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20
Agents
Agentic AI · Research Platform

Constellation — 20-Agent Research Platform

Designed and deployed a multi-agent agentic AI system synthesizing 40+ live data sources — delivering in 30 minutes what a 3-5 person analyst team needs 2-3 hours to produce manually.

40+
Live Data Sources
30m
vs 2-3hr manual
20
Specialized Agents
MCPn8n LangChainMulti-Agent
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3D
Browser Game
Platform Strategy · 3D Game

Finding Penguin — 3D Browser Platform

Designed and launched a full 3D browser game as a platform concept — complete with product strategy, brand partnership model (POI system), and community monetization roadmap. Pure browser architecture with zero backend demonstrates constraint-as-design-principle.

3D
Procedural Browser
0
Backend Servers
Snowfield
Three.jsProcedural Terrain MonetizationMobile-First
Pettabl
2
UX Modes
Consumer App · PetTech

Pettabl — Home Pet Care Platform

Dual-role UX platform — pet owner and caretaker see completely different experiences from the same app. Real-time coordination, activity photo logs, and Paw Points reputation system. Designed to validate a consumer marketplace model in the pet care space.

2
Distinct UX Modes
Real-time
Pet Watch Updates
iOS+
Android Ready
React NativeSupabase Dual-Role UXiOS + Android
Applied Research

52+ products, systems, and AI solutions across 6 industry domains.

Each build answered a different question about how AI changes product creation, organizational capability, and decision-making. AI agents, SaaS platforms, design systems, fintech, edtech, govtech — the depth is in what was learned, not the count.

52+AI Solutions Built
6Industry Domains
25+Years Directing
7Flagship Products

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Contact & Recognition

Let's build something
worth building.

Open to the right opportunity

Director-level AI product and design roles where human judgment and AI capability need to be brought together — and where the work actually ships.

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Recognition & highlights

1st Place — GenAI Design Hackathon 2024, as team leader
Published SPE White Paper — Baker Hughes UX, 2014
Salesforce Triple Star Ranger — 250+ Trailhead badges
350+ certifications across UX, AI/ML, Cloud, Product
Directed AI product creation across 6 industry domains — from concept to deployment
Fortune 500 clients: Google, Disney, J&J, Delta, Optum

Codename Key — All Projects

These are working codenames used throughout the portfolio. Real names are client-sensitive or NDA-scoped.
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