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Digital Product Design Director

Design leader in the digital space with personal and professional preference for beautiful design and passionate teams. Skilled at building and empowering teams to design innovative, useful, and scalable software products. With talented designers, engineers, and product managers, I build strategies and processes to create custom software solutions for my clients and develop lasting business partnerships.

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Uber Internal Tools

Over the course of a year, my team and I designed seven apps for Uber's Productivity Tools, which allows its employees to work and communicate more effectively, find the information they need across the entire Uber ecosystem, launch internal improvement campaigns, and monitor user requests. These products have contributed to the professional success of Uber's employees.

View Uber Search Case Study
Uber App Mockups

Siemens Energy App Ecosystem

In partnership with Siemens Energy's global innovation team, I designed prototypes for several web apps that allow power plan operators to monitor, maintain, and service their power plants across the globe.

Siemens App Mockups

EKSO Bionics Rehabilitation Tools

I worked with the team at Ekso Bionics to develop digital tools to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again. Through user studies on both sides of treatment (patient & therapist), our team created a web portal for therapists to track patient progress and a UI to conduct therapy sessions with the EksoGT.

View Ekso Pulse Case Study
Ekso App Mockups

Some of the methods I use with my team.

Strategy

I work with my clients to solve problems by implementing, user flows, product roadmaps, feature definition, market research, and user studies.

Concepts

Working within a brand, or while helping the client define a new brand, I create mood boards, visual concepts, and style concepts.

Prototyping

Based on the phase of the project, I create either proof of concept, or high fidelity prototypes complete with development documentation.

"...he eagerly embraces feedback to quickly iterate and produce the highest quality products possible."

Brian is incredibly talented, organized, and well-versed on a variety of tools that help him effectively manage multiple projects and keep on top of his deliverables in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment. He excels at keeping projects and his team on track, no matter how many timezones the team may cross, and finds creative ways to collaborate to overcome language barriers. His designs are crowd pleasing and well thought out, and he eagerly embraces feedback from multiple stakeholders to quickly iterate and produce the highest quality products possible. I would recommend Brian in a heartbeat. He’s been a highly valuable extension of our team, and our brand image and usability of our software and website would not be where they are today without him.

- Janelle Shook of Cytek Biosciences

"He consistently translates our vision into a sensible and elegant finished product, always delivered on time."

I have worked with Brian for the last 3 years on various projects including the revamping of our company’s website, brochure templates, and software UI’s that drive complicated research and clinical instrumentation. For each project Brian has demonstrated that unique quality of being technically savvy enough to understand our complex requirements and ask the right questions. He consistently translates our vision into a sensible and elegant finished product, always delivered on time.

- Gil Reinin of Cytek Biosciences

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