Mountain landscape blended with a hexagonal technology network pattern.

Building with AI

Career timeline and how I work with AI tooling.

Timeline

How the work evolved

Era 1 · 2000–2008
Industrial and enterprise foundations
Built dashboards and web interfaces for GE Fanuc/Intellution and enterprise integrations at SoftArtisans. Also shipped user-facing work for Monster.com, including a Webby-recognized career site.
Era 2 · 2009–2015
Consumer scale and design
Design technologist at Frog Design—the Disney MagicBand and phone UI prototypes for AT&T and Facebook. Frontend architecture for high-traffic Yahoo sites. At Tilt.com, early React server rendering on a Perl/JavaScript stack helped lift signups 15%.
Era 3 · 2016–2022
SaaS and product leadership
Senior architect at OneMarket in London—payment products generating £2m/month. Lead engineer at Turo on host tools, in-car hardware, and better error reporting. At Filtered.ai, a hiring platform with AI grading and resume fraud detection.
Era 4 · 2022–2026
AI leadership and design teams
Principal engineer to engineering manager at Context Labs, leading a distributed design and frontend team on the Decarbonization-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform. Cut incident recovery time 50% while rolling out AI coding tools and editor integrations—workshops plus review standards so teams shipped faster without cutting corners.

Approach

How I work with AI

Small UI details and clear layouts matter more when AI generates the first draft. Polish is what makes the result feel intentional.

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