The Director's Cut · New York

Co-founded with an Emmy-winning director. Sole designer and engineer. Owned every layer: positioning, brand, interface, front end, backend, and deployment.

• Identified the problem from inside the industry. Directors review a cut 10–20+ times and hand off hundreds of timecoded notes to each post department every round, rewriting the same unresolved notes version after version in tools (Frame.io) built for technical sign-off, not creative feedback. Defined the product, scope, and positioning independently.
• Designed and built the full front end in React 19, TypeScript, and Tailwind v4. No handoff, no translation loss between design and implementation.
• Architected the backend on Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Storage): schema design with row-level security, email/password auth, cloud sync of notes and metadata, and blob storage for attachments — voice notes, frame sketches, reference images. Video runs two paths under one note layer: multi-gigabyte masters referenced on disk by fingerprint, or a private 1080p proxy on Cloudflare Stream with signed playback gated by the same RLS.
• Deployed to production on Vercel; private password-gated preview. Walkthrough on request.

Thread AI · New York

First designer. Built the product, the design system, and the brand.

• Designed the Worker Builder, Thread AI's AI workflow orchestration tool: the primitives, the canvas interaction model, and the mental models that make non-deterministic agent systems legible, inspectable, and trustworthy to operators.
• Ship production front-end code. Own components in the codebase and open PRs directly rather than handing off specs, which removes a translation layer between design intent and what users get.
• Took Lemma, Thread AI's platform, from zero to product: its surfaces, the underlying design system, and the company's visual identity, as the only designer through 18 engineers and two funding rounds.
• Built and maintain the design system and token architecture as a single source of truth spanning Figma and code.
• Designed Thread AI's brand from scratch and carried it across product, marketing site, commercial assets, and documentation.

Warner Bros. Animation / DreamWorks Animation · Los Angeles

Six years designing inside large-scale production pipelines with hard technical constraints and non-negotiable handoffs.

• Selected into DreamWorks' competitive 12-week visual development program, then hired onto feature animation production.
• Led environment design on animated series at Warner Bros., working the full pipeline from storyboard through layout to production — a staged, dependency-heavy system where every output has to meet a downstream department's spec exactly.
• Delivered under fixed episodic deadlines across seven productions, including 1000 minutes of classical flagship Looney Tunes shorts.

Braze · New York

Designed and evolved the design system and core user flows for an enterprise customer-engagement platform through a period of rapid product expansion. Made complex marketing and segmentation tooling legible to non-technical operators — the same problem class as making agent orchestration legible today.

Gravity Media · New York

Designed brand assets, pitch decks, and motion graphics for media clients, supporting live broadcast productions with fast, precise design work that balanced storytelling, clarity, and visual consistency.