As a designer, I’ve worked at The Home Depot, building features for an employee facing mobile app supporting over 2,000 stores , and at Encyclopedia Britannica, iterating on responsive, consumer facing web products and creating new ones for over 130m monthly users.

Before getting into design, I spent years analyzing digital marketing data for Fortune 500 companies like Walgreens, Allstate and Bose. This data focused approach makes me equal parts user defender and business goals advocate.

Outside of work, I spend most of my free time writing and performing improv, comedy and music around Chicago. I have a music/comedy solo act where I use my voice to created layered looping songs, and intersperse them with improvised character monologues based on an audience suggestion. The sketch comedy group I’m in with longtime friends has even taken a show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where we were featured on the BBC!

I love to travel, and have done multiple longer solo trips in the past decade, including backpacking in SE Asia, Eastern Europe, and my mother’s home country of Brazil, where I hold dual citizenship. Even when I’m home in Chicago, I love exploring the history and architecture of the city and its neighborhoods on the weekends - I’m a sucker for a Gilded Age mansion tour!

Last but not least, I’m a huge movie buff. My wife and I both studied film in college, and we try to get to a theater at least once a week. This year we even completed what’s known as the “Oscars Death Race”, where you watch every single movie nominated for any category (35 features and 15 shorts). Check out my Letterboxd!

Why include all this information that has nothing to do with my work? Because I think it’s important! I believe my well rounded set of creative pursuits and interests is vital to the energy of my design work, and I think knowing one’s coworkers on a personal level is crucial to boosting professional collaboration and team morale.