I make things work. What's most satisfying to me is creating simple, easy-to-use solutions for complex problems. Technology only goes so far if people can't use them.

I'm a designer tutoring 200+ students and studying User Experience Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

I'm also currently working on a visual design project in SCAD's official partnership with Google on Nest + Gemini, after I last successfully worked on Home + Gemini and delivered my solution to Google in the Spring.

Most recently, I worked on Retell AI's (YC W24) core MVP for building and deploying AI voice agents, where I designed multiple usability features that were shipped.

Over the summer, I was a product design intern at CarMax—the largest used car retailer in the United States, where I designed and shipped multiple features on one of the retail product teams, and validated a supply-side product that I designed, resulting in a projected ~$16 million in annual profit increase and ~$4 million in annual cost savings.

At SCAD, I lead FLUX ATL (SCAD Atlanta's UX club), as the student development lead, where I designed, built, and shipped our website, design resource library, and multiple events to develop the next generation of UX designers. FLUX Atlanta is FLUX Savannah's (Main campus) less-mature sibling that I am in the process of scaling.

I also founded and built CoLabs with 100+ members, a student-run organization focused on working on projects outside of class.

I first started working in Product in 2021 but didn't really get involved until 2023. In between, I studied architecture (B.S.) and construction engineering (B.S.), during which I also worked as a manual construction laborer carrying heavy stuff during the day and taking my classes in the afternoon/night. I also interned at Wiss, Janney, Elstner (WJE), an international architecture, civil engineering, and material science firm, where I worked on various multi-million dollar construction projects. I think this background has made me especially detail-oriented and used to working with various stakeholders on any given project. But most of all, architecture school and physical labor has definitely conditioned me to have a certain kind of work ethic (lol).

Since then, I've gradually gotten more involved in the Product and Technology world, and for the past 2 years, I've been dedicating every single day towards becoming a stronger product person.

In my not-so-free time, I continuously learn to code, write, expand my skill sets, and build products. With the ever-expanding list of problems I have written down in my Notes app, I have a lot I'm simultaneously working on to solve.

To help sustain myself, I also started renting out my spare room on Airbnb in January of last year, and have since scaled to managing 10+ listings in Atlanta across Airbnb and VRBO/Expedia where I also run my subsidiary cleaning and repair services business (I'm handy and good at fixing things). On top of that, I also leverage my recognized Airbnb 'Superhost' and VRBO 'Premier Host' status to consult other local hosts by providing AI-powered content generation, customer relations solutions, custom check-in instructions, accounting & tax services, etc. I'm known for great hospitality (4.9/5 average rating with 1000+ bookings per year, 99.9% occupancy rate) and I've been able to channel my design experience into bottom-line results: ~$120K ARR. This pays for school, my tool subscriptions, some living expenses, and lets me meet and talk to people from all over the world.