My Story

I’ve spent most of my career designing digital products, brands, experiences, and systems. Outside of work, you’ll usually find me at a piano, in my workshop, sketching furniture, or studying architecture, discrete math, and the ideas that shape the things we build.

For a long time, those interests felt unrelated. Then I started researching my family’s history.

As I traced generations of my ancestors across Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England, something unexpected began to emerge. The same threads that shaped my family’s journey seemed to weave through my own life: craftsmanship, music, storytelling, problem-solving, and creating things meant to endure.

It made me realize that my hobbies weren’t random at all. In many ways, they felt like a continuation of a much older story.

Whether I’m designing software, building a bench from a fallen Georgia oak, composing music, or exploring how people interact with places and systems, I’m drawn to the same question:

How do we create things that are useful, meaningful, and built to last?

That pursuit has taken many forms over the years—from graphic design and user experience to woodworking, architecture, and product design—but the underlying motivation has remained remarkably consistent.

I love understanding how things fit together.
How ideas become objects.
How systems become experiences.
How thoughtful design can quietly improve everyday life.

Looking back, I’ve come to see my work less as a collection of different disciplines and more as a single practice expressed through different materials.

Sometimes the material is pixels. Sometimes it’s hardwood. Sometimes it’s music.

But it’s always about making something with care; something honest, useful, and lasting.