Product and Design Leader

👋 Hi, I'm Chris.

Product designer (and manager) with over 15 years building products for EdTech, HealthTech, B2B SaaS and so much more.

AI Workflows Conversational UX Design Systems Prototyping Design Leadership B2B SaaS EdTech HealthTech Consumer
Selected Work
Scoir Assignments
Scoir — EdTech

Giving counselors a way to assign, track, and nudge across a 380-student caseload

Scoir could show everything about a student except what they needed to do next. Assignments fixed that. Author a task once, push it to a whole cohort, see who's behind, nudge in one click. It also became the model that grew into Plans.

LifeLens
LifeLens — HealthTech

Designing for high-stakes decisions in the field.

A wearable ECG monitor with no product around it. We built the entire application suite (mobile, command dashboard, and design system) in four months for a live Armed Forces deployment.

Apply with Scoir
Scoir — EdTech

Building a free college application for students who need it most

150,000 students. 500,000 applications. 181 colleges. Apply with Scoir gave underserved students a free path to apply. Figuring out how to design that for both first-time users and existing Scoir students was the interesting part.

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Going Merry — EdTech Acquired

Helping Going Merry grow a scholarship platform students actually wanted to use

Turns out students don't love hunting for scholarships any more than anyone loves anything tedious. I worked with the Going Merry team to make that process a lot less painful, through a stretch of pretty serious growth.

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Respage — B2B SaaS

Bringing conversational AI into the day-to-day workflows of property managers

Property managers have enough on their plates. I helped Respage build AI tools that actually fit into how their users work, rather than demanding their users work differently to fit the AI.

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Ticketleap — Consumer Tech Acquired

Making event ticketing a little less of a headache for independent organizers

Ticketleap was for the person putting on their first 5k, their neighborhood concert, their whatever. The trick was keeping it simple enough for a first-timer without quietly disappointing everyone else.

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LifeLens — HealthTech

Bringing military-grade cardiac monitoring to patients who need it every day

After proving the technology in the field, the next challenge was adapting it for a completely different context — patients requiring 24/7 heart monitoring at home. Same hardware, very different human problem.

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Scoir — EdTech

Giving counselors a smarter way to guide students through the college planning process

Counselors managing hundreds of students needed more than a checklist. Plans and Assignments brought customizable, time-aware guidance directly to students and gave counselors the reporting to actually stay on top of it.

About

A bit about
how I work.

I'm a product designer and design leader with 15+ years working at early and growth-stage startups. Most of my career has been spent in environments where nobody's quite sure what the product is yet, which I genuinely enjoy more than I probably should.

I do my best work when I'm close to research, product strategy, and engineering, not just showing up at the end to make things pretty. I've built design teams, run design systems end-to-end, and spent a lot of time thinking about how AI can make products more useful without making them more confusing.

I've worked across EdTech, HealthTech, B2B SaaS, Consumer, and Market Research. A few of those companies went on to do pretty well for themselves.

Companies
Scoir EdTech
LifeLens HealthTech
Going Merry Acquired EdTech
Respage B2B SaaS
Ticketleap Acquired Consumer Tech
ListenLogic Acquired Market Research
Contact

I'd love to hear
what you're working on.

Open to product design leadership roles, advisory conversations, and the occasional well-scoped consulting engagement. If something you're building sounds like my kind of problem, say hi.