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Design Leader

Versatile Design & Product Leader with a proven track record in motivating teams, driving innovation, and shaping impactful outcomes within complex, multi-sided marketplace environments. Adept at leading cross-functional design and engineering teams to deliver compelling user experiences and successful products. Believes in transforming processes to improve outcomes and fostering initiative to elevate the design function.

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FullStack Connect

My leadership spanned both the strategic vision and design execution for FullStack Connect, our proprietary multi-sided marketplace platform. This platform is pivotal in streamlining the complex interactions among clients, talent, and project management, and under my guidance as VP of Product, it now focuses on integrating AI-driven features to enhance efficiency and retention across this critical ecosystem.

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.

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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.

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.

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My Leadership & Design Methodologies

Strategic Vision & C-Suite Alignment

I lead my team in defining and executing comprehensive design strategies that directly inform product direction. This involves collaborating closely with C-Suite leadership to shape overarching product strategies, while guiding my team through user flows, product roadmaps, feature definition, and in-depth market and user research to ensure our solutions are data-informed, market-relevant, and impactful.

User Experience & System Innovation

I foster an environment where innovative product concepts flourish through user-centered design. My approach ensures we can explore and define new user experiences or elevate existing ones, maintaining a hands-on understanding of the technical intricacies as we lead the creation of intuitive interaction patterns, robust information architectures, and scalable design systems. This ensures our user experience vision is not only compelling but also technically feasible and ready for seamless implementation.

Cultivating High-Performing Teams

My leadership is fundamentally focused on building healthy, resilient, and high-performing design teams. I achieve this by actively facilitating knowledge-sharing workshops, creating comprehensive training materials for designers, establishing clear career paths, and personally mentoring my team members to foster their growth and success. This dedicated investment in our people directly contributes to our ability to deliver everything from strategic explorations to polished, high-fidelity products, ensuring comprehensive documentation and fostering seamless collaboration with engineering for flawless execution.

"...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

"His ability to navigate business and technical needs was essential to delivering the application in a timely manner"

I had the pleasure of collaborating with Brian on the UI/UX for Digital Realty’s Global (Customer) Portal. His professionalism and ability to deliver a superb service were invaluable to the team. Brian was always open to ideas and willing to explore all avenues in order to get to the desired state. I greatly appreciate his dedication to this project and the support he offered the team during the project duration. His ability to navigate business and technical needs was essential to delivering the application in a timely manner and meeting the requirements set forth by the stakeholders. It’s rare to find a creative mind who is also so in sync with the Business Owner’s vision! Your innovative nature is priceless, Brian!

- Vanya McNamara of Digital Realty

"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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