Hi there, I’m Gary 👋
I’m a UX and product designer who believes good design should make life easier and more beautiful. I love turning messy problems into simple, human experiences – preferably with a good coffee nearby.
I’m a designer with 20+ years of experience across brand and industry, from startups to enterprise. I bring a strategic mindset, hands-on design craft, and a collaborative spirit to every project.
I’m currently open to new opportunities where I can bring strategic design thinking, leadership, and craft to make a real impact.
I take pride in my craft, and love helping designers grow. I thrive in the messy middle – turning ambiguity into clarity through collaboration, conversation, and a good dose of curiosity. I enjoy building teams that care deeply about their work – and each other.
I’m a systems thinker who sweats the details and values great craft. Whether we’re mapping journeys or refining interactions, I believe in designing together – asking good questions, exploring ideas, and building things that make both users and designers proud.
I bring a holistic product mindset – connecting design, business, and technology from discovery to delivery. I will partner with you to define priorities, test assumptions, and translate strategy into experiences that drive meaningful results.
I’m {design_system_ready} && {tech_curious}. While (I != engineer), I code enough to be dangerous – and to make sure design and dev stay perfectly in sync.
Bonus: this.site == hand-crafted.
About me
I’m an Experience Design Lead who focused on UX strategy and implementation.
I help businesses and decision-makers enable innovation, create and deliver meaningful product & service experiences, transform their organizations, and develop scalable design capability through advocating Design Thinking and employing processes of strategic design, design research, and service design.
An experienced design practitioner and leader, I’ve been working in design for digital products & services since the nascent days of the web, delivering countless products for a vast number of clients spanning a range of industries.
I love to maximize my combined experience as a designer and leader to build, inspire and lead talented cross-functional teams that solve genuine customer problems and innovate across the entire product development lifecycle, delivering the most positive impact possible for the organization, its people, and its customers.
Outside of work I find inspiration through photography, meditation and traveling with my wife and my little boy. My hunger and curiosity for life drives me to experience everything and document all that it has to offer. This thirst for exploration and willingness to fail is evident in all of my work.
My capabilities, design philosophy and processCapabilities
A few customers I’ve worked with
Selected work and case studies
Changing Times
Leverage Design Sprint to understand problems behind complex time reporting process and then improving it
Design ThinkingEnterprise UXProduct Design
Rebranding Northrop Grumman
Improve brand perception and user experience through user research and user-centered redesign
User ResearchEnterprise UXProduct Design
Making Better Products, Faster
Solving Anthem Blue-Cross’ issue of user experience inconsistency, development process misalignments, and wasted development time by employing an internal design system
Enterprise UXDesign SystemUX/UI Design
Modernizing Web Presence
Modernizing a new storytelling experience connecting filmmakers with their audience
Enterprise UXDesign SystemUX/UI Design