2018
🚀 Leading UX for the Shanghai Planetarium, soon to be the world’s largest (opening 2020)
🛠 Teaching myself woodworking and industrial design, inspired by my first small project
🥰 Mentoring and advising startups, executive coaching
🤓 Art directed the illustrations for Ken Kocienda’s best-selling book about his time at Apple, Creative Selection
🖖 Left Foreign Affairs Magazine after four wonderful years directing their cover
🎙 Designed show art, posters, and illustrations for a few podcasts, some of which I’ve written about here
2017
✈️ Moved to San Francisco after 12 years in NYC, decided to take a break from managing large teams to focus on rock climbing
✨ March/April Foreign Affairs cover featured on The Rachel Maddow Show Watch here
👋 Accepted the role of Entrepreneur in Residence with Zeno Ventures
👋 Joined the Radical Candor team working closely with NYTimes best-selling author and management guru Kim Scott
👨💻 Contracting as principal product designer for the mentorship and LXP (learning experience platform), Everwise
👻 Started a to-be-announced project (now-announced, art directing illustration for Ken Kocienda’s best-selling book, Creative Selection)
2016
🔊 Guest lecturer at Pratt University
🙃 Scaled up the Infor Retail UX team to 20+ people designing 13 products simultaneously
🏆 Infor Retail awarded Leader, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Merchandise Assortment Management Apps Press Release
🎙 Guest on the Reinventing Retail podcast Listen here
🔊 Panel Speaker, The Future of UX Leadership, Solomon Page
🏆 Eddies Digital Award Honorable Mention: Best Website, Consumer News, 2+ years after ForeignAffairs.com launch
🏆 Folio Eddie Award for Editorial Excellence: Best Full Issue, Consumer News for "Obama's World" Read the Issue
🏆 Finalist, National Magazine Awards in the category of Literature, Science, and Politics: Foreign Affairs Magazine
2015
🖖 After 4+ years, left role as Creative Director of 10 Speed Labs to focus more on building products
👋 Joined a new product, Infor Retail, to lead their UX team Learn more
🤝 Partnered with major retailers on research and design including Whole Foods, Target, Home Depot Learn more
🏆 Ozzie Award: Best Website Design ForeignAffairs.com
🏆 Finalist, National Magazine Awards in the category of Literature, Science, and Politics: Foreign Affairs Magazine
🏆 National Magazine Award Nomination for Best Covers: Foreign Affairs Magazine
🏆 Featured Designer on Squarespace.com
2014
🤩 Times Square Alliance launches official city-run arts program
👨🏫 Mentor, FinTech Hackathon
✨ An app I redesigned, iReal Pro, launches to 5 star reviews, millions of happy users
🏆 Grand Prize at the 2014 American Clean Skies Foundation Energy Visions Award gala for the Just Science iOS app
🏆 Featured Designer on Squarespace.com
2013
⚡️ Co-founded Restore Red Hook, a Sandy relief fund, raising over $500,000 for neighborhood businesses destroyed by Hurricane Sandy
🏆 Featured Designer on Squarespace.com
2012
🌎 Merged my design agency with a 30 person international development shop, creating 10 Speed Labs, a full service agency
⚡️ Co-founded Times Square Art Square, a foundation dedicated to a festival replacing ads in Times Square with art - more info here.
🏆 Featured Designer on Squarespace.com
2006 - 2010
🗽 Moved to NYC
⚡️ Founded an agency and coworking space in Brooklyn
🔥 Co-founded several startups with many failures and a few successes
✨ Art director for Brooklyn Industries
✨ Art director at Time Inc.
2005
⚡️ Founded my first agency, Mixdmedia, an international team of talented creatives for hire
🔊 Speaker at Pechakucha Idea Festival, Tokyo
💸 Received the first Paul Orfalea Scholarship, left Tokyo and returned to Babson College
2004
⚡️ Founded my first NPO, an international arts foundation using art to discuss neglected issues in society
👨🎤 Organized int'l art exhibitions in Maui, Rotterdam, and Tokyo
👨🎤 Solo art exhibition at Heartland Gallery, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
2003
⛩ Moved to Tokyo to take a job as a creative director, dropped out of business school
2002
💸 Attended Babson College on a Presidential Scholarship
2000
⚡️ Joined ADC Young Guns award-winner Zak Kyes to create Visual Design Labs, leading web design and development
😂 Featured Interview in Home Office Magazine
1999
💥 First startup job, contracted at age 14 to design the desktop user interface for Click Radio in NYC, a precursor to Pandora
🏆 40,000+ Downloads for two skins in Panic Inc.'s Audion Skin Design Gallery (this was a lot of downloads in 1999)
1998
🇯🇵 Began a lifelong study of Japanese
1997
⚡️ Started my first company, Macs R 4 Every1, installing networks, computers, and teaching people to use them
1995
🤖 Taught myself to code in HTML+ and HTML 2.0
🎧 HAM Radio License Acquired (Call sign KE6WXU)
1994
💾 Built my first computer from scrap parts, an Intel 486.
😎 Began flowing text for my graphic designer mother in Aldus Pagemaker (which would later become Adobe InDesign)
1989
🐣 First used a computer, my father's Macintosh SE/30
1984
🥚 Born in a small beach town in Southern California