ABOUT

A few words about me

Born and raised in Minnesota and went to school at the University of Oregon. My career began with a desire to start something myself embarking on the path of entrepreneurship. Two endeavors began from simple observations

  1. Restaurants discarded an inordinate amount of food waste

  2. Eugene Oregon, stuck in 1975, hadn’t had a new bar/restaurant on campus in 30+ years

I helped co-start and expand Ecoscraps - a compost company utilizing fruit and veggie waste to create nitrogen rich compost - extremely beneficial to hydroponics and medical marijuana.

I also started a beer bar formerly known as “The Growler Pub”. With so much great craft beer in Oregon, this location functioned not only as a bar on campus but also was the first location in the state of Oregon that wasn’t a brewery allowing consumers to purchase and fill-up growlers.

As all things do, these ended in one way or another but provided a launchpad into my current career - defining and building exceptional digital experiences. What had always excited and inspired me was how I could leverage technology, social media, and other marketing techniques to grow our businesses. It felt like a natural transition to help other companies and corporations do the same.

My career has since been a dynamic journey across the creative landscape, one where I immerse myself in a discipline, category, or business and emerge an SME (sort of) — I’ve worked for mobile app companies with a focus on financial institutions, I’ve lead design teams and re/designed digital platforms for companies of all sizes, on a whim I jumped into the industrial design space and lead product design for number of clients producing Red Dot winning consumer electronics devices for multiple brands.

For the past three years I’ve worked at the world leading creative and advertising agency producing best in class brand, digital, and product experiences.