About

I design and grow software products. Blending design intuition with product sense, my niche is the messy middle of building 0-to-1: right-sizing roadmaps, crafting prototypes and experiments, and turning colleagues and customers into co-conspirators.

I’ve worn hats as designer, product manager, researcher, web developer — but the title is secondary. What gets me excited is tackling hard problems with kind, smart people. Lately, that’s been in AI: I built Ada’s first self-serve experience & product-led growth motion and its first LLM-powered features.

With a background in Cognitive Science, I like untangling how people feel behind what they say and do. This comes in handy when trying to align AI products to human goals and values.

History

From cognitive science to product design

  1. 2014 – 2017

    Cognitive Science & early design

    University of Toronto · agency & freelance

    Studied Cognitive Science at U of T — including research in the Ferber lab on how perception shapes cognitive development. Cut my teeth in practice too: brand and web work at Chartreuse Media, a freelance design & dev practice, and course websites — learning to untangle how people feel behind what they say and do.

  2. 2017 – 2021

    Design Consultant

    Grantbook · Toronto

    Grantbook’s first design consultant, at a tech consultancy helping the world’s largest foundations with digital transformation. Established net-new design services, built a B2B marketing & design ecosystem, and spearheaded a rebrand — helping win its first six-figure foundation contracts. Later returned for as-needed UX & web design on philanthropy-tech projects.

  3. 2020 – 2021

    Senior Product Designer

    Chalk · Toronto

    Designed lesson- and curriculum-planning tools for K-12 educators. Shipped Chalk’s first free-to-paid subscription tier — supporting the B2C growth behind its acquisition by PowerSchool for $13.5M.

  4. 2021 – Now

    Product Designer → Principal Product Manager

    Ada · Toronto

    Joined as a product designer and grew into Principal PM. Designed Ada’s first LLM-powered features — part of the first CX AI Agent to market (Oct 2023) — then built Ada’s Growth function from scratch, shipping a free trial that drove double-digit revenue from new customers. Now Principal PM for Enterprise Adoption.

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The case studies behind this path — my end-to-end process, the trade-offs, and what actually shipped.

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