AskNature.org reaches 70,000 people per month with its mission to inspire and inform product, service, and system innovators with accessible and actionable biological information. Cross-functional team leadership by example; balanced dozens of competing priorities in a remote and self-directed environment.
- Product management / vision, roadmap, kpis, strategic direction, leadership
- Project management / budget, source, scope, schedule, manage backlog, and report
- User research / design and execute activites and pipelines for broad array of metrics
- User experience / produce full suite of deliverables for planning and communication
- Software architecture / define and adapt business and functional requirements
- Full stack web development / provision and manage all layers of distributed systems
- Proposal development / co-create $50k - $5M+ grant proposals to major foundations
- Business development / generate and nurture leads for SME and LE engagements

Help clients reach their goals by consulting with high level creative and executive teams for a wide variety of corporate, start-up, and nonprofit clients, from startups to Fortune 100. Full service offerings have included:

- Art direction
- Product management
- Management consulting
- User experience design
- User experience research
- User interface design
- Full stack web development
- Industrial design and development
- Video production, animation, and editing
- Print design
- Logo and branding design
- Copywriting
- Marketing strategy and direction

- Clients: XPLANE, Indochine Development Group, Reel Water Productions, Sunset Mortgage, Nau, SouthWings, International League of Conservation Photographers, Tabar, , Stevens Pass Ski Area, Rocker Ski Racks, Under Solen Media, Pongo Media Productions, EP Films, Humanities Washington, Foundation for Sustainable Technologies, King Pacific Lodge, Alder Creek Kayak & Canoe, The Kamchatka Project, Lewis & Clark College, SeaChange, Biomimicry Oregon, Biomimicry 3.8, Intermedia Communications Training, Oregon Department of Human Services, Save Our Wild Salmon, Bouchard Craftwork, Gardens of Corfu, A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity Hellas, West Linn Wilsonville Music and Arts Partnership, Oregon Kayak and Canoe Club

Focused on achieving ideals of performance, beauty, and sustainability in practice and product.
- Reported to VP Product Design in fast-paced studio setting
- Led collaborative design and acted as technical developer for inaugural line of luggage and accessories, including custom hardware/trim design
- Led design and technical development for inaugural line of technical gloves
- Designed and developed fabric graphics and patterns, trims, complex apparel features, and t-shirt graphics
-. Participated in high level strategic planning sessions at dept and org levels
- Worked closely with design, development, and merchandising teams to manage visual line-plans
- Created proprietary database-driven visual line-plan
- Assisted with line-level product, palette, and materials direction
- Wallet featured in TIME's 2009 Gadgets of the Year
- Luggage and gloves featured in Men's Journal, Outside, Backpacker, Surface, Shape, Wend, Coco Eco, TIME, Men's Health, Inhabitat, Cool Hunting, Treehugger, Gizmodo, Notcot, and more

As intern:
- Glove and footwear conceptual design, leading to several products that went to market
- Glove technical design
- Participate in client and vendor meetings
- Redesign corporate branding

As contractor:
- Glove conceptual and technical design for outdoor industry clients , leading to over ten products that wound up on the market
- Create database management system and organization guidelines for in-house materials library
- Manage intern

- Clients: HMK, Outdoor Research, Sierra Designs, Mountain Hardwear, Black Dot, Nau, Eddie Bauer First Ascent, Bonfire

- Note: Tabar was acquired by Fownes Brothers in 2014.

Assisted architects with many aspects of design process. Revised design specs, prepped charettes, built models, analyzed blueprints, developed branded collateral, and organized archives. Also assisted office manager with supply inventories, front-desk reception, and upkeep of the showcase studio space.

Outdoor retail sales, service management, and professional ski, whitewater kayak, and climbing instruction.

Activities and Societies: - IDSA Student Chapter Secretary, 2003-04 - IDSA Student Member, 2003-06 - Outdoor Center Whitewater Kayak Program Co-founder, 2003-06
- Worked on student projects with professional teams at Medtronic, Fluke, Procter & Gamble, and City of Bellingham.
- Part of an interdisciplinary team awarded a $40,000 grant from P&G for sustainable design project, 2005
- USGBC LEED training
- IDSA Junior of the Year Merit Award Winner, 2005
- IDSA Senior of the Year Merit Award Runner-up, 2006
- Selected by peers as Project Director for senior class project in association with Fluke Corp
- Recommended for internship by International Housewares Association, 2005
- Finalist in Dyson/IDSA Eye for Why Student Design Competition, 2005
- Co-founded whitewater kayaking program via WWU's Outdoor Center and instructed classes, organized club trips, and promoted the program.
- 3.76 overall GPA

- Comparative Sociology
- Visual Design
- Outdoor Leadership

- National Honor Society
- Overall GPA 3.98