About Me

I live in San Francisco, California with my wife Tanja and son Peter. We have a small apartment on Fell Street. And we spend a lot of time outside. If you're looking for us we are most likely here, here, or here. Unless I'm on my bike...and then I'll be here, here, here, or here.

My Work Experience

I am a Senior Product Manager with a background in user experience, and web standards design. My Linked In profile.

Zinio.com / Senior Product Manager / June '06 - Present
Zinio provides an on and off line digital magazine reading experience. I am part of a small team focused on defining the product and publisher strategy for our next generation platform.

KeepMedia.com / Product Manager / May '05 - June '06
KeepMedia provides current and archived articles from over 200 publications. While in this role I led a web standards based realignment of the site, focused on "community" features like tagging, commenting, personalization, and sharing.

KeepMedia.com / User Experience Lead / March '03 - May '05
My role was to develop a relationship with, and empower our consumers. Through user groups, usability tests, and surveys, I was responsible for increasing acquisition and retention through improvements to the products functionality and user experience.

Travelocity.com / Information Architect / June '02 - March '03
Travelocity's business is selling tickets. My role was to sell more tickets by making the process easier and faster to complete. I also worked to create the most successful and compelling user experience. Because when prices are equal, the experience wins the consumer.

Travelocity.com / Senior Designer / Jan '01 - June '02
Responsible for driving the look and feel of the Travelocity website, and creating consistency between multiple lines of business. Was the key designer on multiple revenue building projects within the cruise and destinations products.

Oven Digital / Senior Designer / April '99 - November '00
Oven Digital was a boom-era design studio based in New York with offices in seven locations around the world. My role was to initiate, lead, and maintain the creative relationships with the client, and participate in the project phases from discovery to implementation.

Ethos Interactive / Interface Designer / Dec '96 - Aug '98
My role was to create the visual themes and navigation structure for our web sites, CD-ROMs and interactive kiosks. Ethos presented a unique opportunity to be involved in all aspects of the project process, allowing me to learn about each aspect (design, development, client management, etc.) in great detail.