About.

Your website probably isn’t broken. It’s just not doing its job.

I help teams figure out what their site actually needs to do — then do only that. Fractional design and frontend support, focused homepage refreshes, and small modern builds. My work centers on clarity, hierarchy, responsive behavior, accessibility, and the polish that makes a site feel current and trustworthy.

I care about the part before the build as much as the build itself: where attention goes, what the structure should be, what can be cut, what needs to be clearer. When the thinking is right, the implementation is the easy part — and I can do both. I work in Next.js, React, Tailwind, and WordPress, and I use motion selectively to support content and flow rather than decorate it.

Twenty-plus years of design and frontend work across agencies, nonprofits, and institutional clients — including the Smithsonian and a run at Forum One. Columbia MBA, ongoing UX coursework through the Interaction Design Foundation. I think about a page the way a marketer thinks about a landing page — how attention moves, where people pause, and what helps people understand and act.

When I’m not designing or coding, I write fiction — mainly young adult science fiction and fantasy. Check out my author's site for more about my writing. I work remotely from Virginia.

Places I've built some stuff:

Forum One Communications (Arlington, VA), Web Developer — crafted front-end experiences across many high-profile nonprofit and educational websites for one of the region’s leading digital firms.

The LEGO Company (New York, NY; Billund, Denmark), Creative Director & Executive Producer — helped lead online community and digital experience work for LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO Bionicle, and other major LEGO brands.

News Corporation (New York, NY), Managing Editor, iGuide Net Reviews — managed six editors at one of the early web review hubs.

Places I've learned a few things:

Columbia University (BA-Liberal Arts, BS-Biomechanics, MBA-Marketing)

Interaction Design Foundation — online courses in UX / UI

DeepLearning.ai / Stanford Online — online coursework in machine learning and deep learning

RealPython.com — online courses in Python

benmarriott.com — online courses in motion graphics

And one U.S. Patent:

Method, system and storage medium for generating virtual brick models — patent filed during my seven-year tenure at LEGO.