Alexandria, VA

Director of Product

User Research, Stakeholder Management, Creative Direction, Product Concept, Product Design, User Experience, Visual Design, Prototypes, Mobile, Web, Pricing

Monarch Money lets you stay on top of your financial life with the first all-in-one personal finance platform. You can monitor your spending, track your goals, and create a financial plan in minutes.

“Simple and clean design that still offers enough complexity to be useful – love it!“ - Josef P

“The setup is extremely easy and quick. I love how easy it is to visualize where my money is going.“ - Brent R

Shanghai, China

Chief Creative Officer
Creative Direction, Product Concept, Product Design, User Experience, Visual Design, Prototypes, Mobile, Web, Storyboarding, Editing

Waylens Horizon is specially-designed to let you capture and share the thrill of your drive. Horizon lets you overlay driving performance data on video and share your best driving moments in real-time. We also have a social network and keep lists (with data proof) of the world’s fastest cars and track records.

“…it's probably the sexiest-looking dash cam you've ever laid your eyes on…“ - Top Gear

“…an amazing concept…“ - Digital Trends

Leadership Team:
Haowei Zhang - Chief Executive Officer (LinkedIn)
Dawei Shen - Chief Technical Officer (LinkedIn)
Phil Salesses - Chief Creative Officer (LinkedIn)
Mike Schmidt - Chief Marketing Officer (LinkedIn)
Tao Lin - Principal Designer (LinkedIn)
John Nielsen - Marketing Manager (LinkedIn)

Cambridge, MA

Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab
Research, Algorithm Development, User Experience, User Interface, Visual Design, Responsive Web, Data Science, Software Engineering

Visit Place Pulse

Place Pulse quantitatively measures urban perception by turning visual preference surveys into crowdsourced games.

“Think of the site as ‘hot or not’ for cities. Users glance at a pair of photographs side by side, then click which one’s hotter or, in the official terms of the site, which one’s safer or more unique, or more upper-class. As each image is compared, a ranking of safety (or uniqueness or affluence) emerges. The Macro Connections group can then analyze and visualize those rankings to ask all sorts of fascinating questions: Are certain cities seen as wealthier than others and if so, why? What are the ramifications of segregated public housing? Does graffiti actually impact our perception of safety? Or are cities wasting their cash scrubbing buildings, when they could be investing in truly valuable public amenities, like trees?” - Fast Company

Singapore

Design Technologist
Production Hardware, Production Software, Electrical System Design, PCB Design, UX, UI, Visual Design, Creative Programming, Sensors, Sourcing, Fabrication, Networking

When you enter the Digital Life group at the Singtel headquarters in Singapore, you’re greeted by a kiosk and an LED waterfall that flows between opposing escalators. After you check in, and step on the escalator, a sensor detects your location and sends up fish to join you. At the top, there is a ‘fish tank’ made of an analog flip dot display coupled with 9x HD displays. Fish swim between the two tanks entertaining the guests while they wait. When a name is called, a shark will enter the tank from a random location scattering all the fish towards your awaiting host. Sensors in front of the screens allow people to interact with the tank directly as well. For instance, if you get close to the tank, the fish will scatter.

I was solely responsible for the escalator display and helped with some sensors and algorithm work for the larger installation at the top of the stairs.

San Francisco, CA

Freelance Contract
User Experience, User Interface, Visual Design, Development (React Native, Meteor, GraphQL), Deployment

In 2017, the cryptocurrency markets were exploding. Prices on many digital assets could double over night, and since cryptocurrencies trade on the global market, they are active 24 hours a day. Crypto Climate was originally created for day traders as a way to monitor and notify them of important indicator activity while away from their desk. Giving them their lives back and a sense of security.

Stanford, CA

Head of Product
Creative Direction, UX, Web Development

Eian is a well funded crypto startup with deep connections to the Chinese government. I facilitated the creation of a white paper, a landing page, and an investment platform prototype.

San Francisco, CA

Freelance Contract
Concept, Art Direction, Development

Compromise is the world’s first fighter game designed to be played over the Ethereum blockchain. Its retro style is a nod to the cold war-esque situation America finds itself in currently and is designed to show off the capabilities of the Magmo’s Force Move Framework.

It was designed to be a 5 way Rock, Paper, Scissors except the characters are shown below. Trump, Putin, Stormy Daniels, Mueller, and an average American. And if you bet on one of the characters, the plan was to automatically donate to their associated real life organization. Play as Trump and 2% of your bet goes to #MAGA. People aren’t going to want to do that, so they’ll only play as some characters. But that means the odds will shift. If you want to win, you need to play as the character nobody is playing at. Which is probably the most evil one.

I call it “Compromise” because in order to beat others and win, you have to compromise yourself. Evil huh?

Pixel Art: Ben Rittmann

Shanghai, China

Design Technologist
User Experience, Mobile, Hardware, Prototyping

Yibu is a new learning platform that transforms screen time into a meaningful and physically active experience. Yibu includes five crafted wooden toys embedded with sensing technology, which are connected to a character experiencing environmental challenges on the screen. Children who play the game learn about the world around them and feel empowered to positively influence it.

Hong Kong/Shanghai, China

Design Technologist
User Experience, Prototypes

Project involved complicated stakeholder management and 4 separate country teams. We developed a modular system that would work for the requirements of each country, while still maintaining a central corporate brand and information architecture.

Shanghai, China

Design Technologist
User Experience, User Interface, Prototyping, Mobile

This work was done for one of Asia’s largest banks and is covered by an NDA.

Shanghai, China

Design Technologist
User Experience, Prototyping, Responsive Desktop

This work was done for one of China’s largest banks and is covered by an NDA.