About

I've spent most of my career working on things that didn't exist yet.

Started in industrial design, with five years at a San Francisco consultancy doing hardware for Google, Apple, Panasonic, Ricoh, and others. Then on to Cisco as a UX designer on Webex Teams, eventually moving into AR/VR/MR interaction design. Now I'm a Senior Designer at Woven by Toyota in the Special Projects Group, working on connected multi-platform experiences with AI at their core. It's the kind of work that doesn't have a playbook yet.

Somewhere along the way I stopped being one kind of designer. Hardware, software, and the space between them. That's where I'm most useful, and most interested.

I thrive in ambiguity. I can think in systems and ship in pixels: in the same week I'll be mapping how a vehicle, home, and phone hand off context to each other, and sweating the micro-interactions inside one screen of it. The best work I've ever been part of happened in rooms where designers, engineers, and PMs were building on each other's ideas. I love that, and I'm good at it.

US Army veteran, SJSU grad, dad of two. Currently training for my first 70.3 and happiest on two wheels. Always down to talk design, cars, or whatever you're building.

Patents

More on the way, additional patent applications are currently in progress and will be added as they're published.

Industrial Design

Medical Cart — Ricoh A mobile cart designed for clinical environments, protecting the distinctive physical form of the product.

US D714,454 S · Filed 2012, granted 2014
US D722,172 S · Filed 2012, granted 2015 (companion design)

Mobile Card Reader — PayPal The physical design of a compact card reader that attaches to a phone, allowing businesses to accept credit card payments anywhere.

US D740,287 S · Filed 2013, granted 2015

Consumer Audio

Personal Wireless Media Station — Pinn A wireless earbud paired with a base station. Audio plays through the base's speaker while the earbud is docked, then seamlessly transfers to the earbud when removed and worn — bridging the gap between shared listening and personal listening.

US 2018/0131793 A1 · Filed 2016 (home base station)
US 2019/0124193 A1 · Filed 2017 (wearable base station variant)

Augmented Reality & Computer Vision

Enhanced Contrast AR Tags — Toyota Research Institute Next-generation visual markers — similar in concept to QR codes — that AR systems and cameras can detect reliably even in challenging lighting conditions like a vehicle interior. Uses a translucent base layered with a pattern for improved visibility.

US 2022/0019086 A1 · Filed 2020

Vehicle Interaction & Intelligence

Context-Based Searching in Vehicles — Toyota An occupant gestures at something from inside the car, and the vehicle interprets the context to surface relevant information — for example, pointing toward a building to learn more about it.

US 12,450,275 B2 · Filed 2024, granted 2025

Exterior Gesture Recognition — Toyota The vehicle recognizes hand gestures performed from outside (like signaling to open the trunk when your hands are full), anticipates obstacles to completing the task, and resolves them automatically.

US 2026/0016820 A1 · Filed 2024

Contextually Adapted Access — Toyota Vehicle access permissions adapt in real time based on the situation unfolding around the car, rather than relying on fixed rules — allowing or restricting entry based on context.

US 2026/0103167 A1 · Filed 2024

Autonomous Systems & Simulation

Templatized Road Segments — Toyota A method for taking sensor data captured from real-world roads and using it as a template to generate realistic virtual road segments — useful for simulation, testing, and training of autonomous driving systems.

US 2026/0087733 A1 · Filed 2024

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