Resume
Head of Design Moderne.ai
September 2023 - Present
Head of Design, Moderne.ai
September 2023 – Present
Moderne is the Agent Tools company, building deterministic, governed infrastructure that enables AI coding agents to safely operate across enterprise software systems at scale.
As Head of Design, I lead product design across Moderne’s platform, developer tools, documentation, website, and supporting marketing experiences. Since joining as the company’s first designer, I’ve helped evolve a complex, engineer-built platform into a cohesive product experience and established the systems and workflows that support it.
Our design process has evolved beyond traditional Figma-to-engineering handoffs into an AI-native development workflow. I work directly with Claude Code to move from product thinking to HTML prototypes and production code, collaborating with engineering through implementation rather than handing off static designs. Design now happens much closer to the code: prototyping, testing, refining, and merging directly into the product.
My work spans the full experience, including complex enterprise workflows, developer tooling, the CLI, SaaS platform, documentation, product website, design system, and supporting marketing materials, creating a consistent experience across every surface where people interact with Moderne.
Product Design Lead Tetrate
2022 October - September 2023
Tetrate is a leading enterprise service mesh company that enables a safe and fast application modernization journey for our customers.
As the Lead Product Designer, I am responsible for developing our design language, the User Experience for our flagship product Tetrate Service Bridge, and setting the strategy for the product with leadership. Collaborating in a technical enterprise product landscape with engineering to understand complex technical problems our users face and drive a vision to solve them tactically with design.
Product Design Manager + Design Lead R+D, VMware
2019 – September 2022, Toronto, Ontario
As a Product Design manager at VMware I managed the Developer Experience Design team focused on the developer experience for the Tanzu Modern Applications Platform team. Tanzu is a portfolio of products and services by VMware aimed at helping organizations build, run, and manage modern applications on Kubernetes-based infrastructure, whether it's on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.
I worked with my team of five designers, two managers on all aspects of the developer product, from defining user experience goals and product vision to the granular implementation details. Our user-centered iterative design process helps us learn from our users and continuously improve software. During my tenure I added 7 new members to the design team - total of 22 product designers in the Developer Experience Program in the Modern Applications Business Unit I managed 3 of the 4 product designers who moved into leadership positions in 2021.
Design Lead - R+D, VMware
2019, Toronto, Ontario
As a design lead, I provided product leadership to multiple product teams. I demonstrated the ability to successfully understand and convey project objectives and mentor and coach teams in discovery efforts, design decisions, and solution delivery.
Staff Product Designer R+D, Pivotal Labs
2016-2018, Toronto, Ontario
I was a senior product designer in 2016 and then promoted to staff product designer in 2018. During this time, I supported the entire product UX lifecycle of Concourse, an open-source CI/CD developer tool.
Product Designer, Pivotal Labs
2013-2016, Toronto, Berlin, Los Angeles, Washington, DC
I was responsible for developing visual identity systems, data visualizations, and visual design as well as producing user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and development assets. I worked collaboratively with clients, developers, and designers. We worked in an Agile development focused workflow with an emphasis on user research and rapidly iterative human-centred design and development. I was originally part of Xtreme Labs, which was acquired by Pivotal in 2013.
Clients
Volkswagen - Digital Lab Berlin
CIBC - Business Banking Desktop
Tyco - Data Science Model POC
MCX - Mobile Coupon App iOS + Android
Ford - Pass iOS + Android
PC Plus - Mobile Coupon App iOS + Android
Ecobee - Rebate portal
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