My Story

I started a company my senior year of college that helped other designers and computer science students gain access to gig work while in school. When this gained traction, I spent the year following college at the IDEA Center at Notre Dame attempting to fundraise and scale. This was ultimately a failure, but a catalyst to launching my career in startups & venture.

My stint at the IDEA Center led me to Platform Venture Studio, where I worked as Development Lead as a part of their design team for 2.5 years. As Development Lead, my primary responsibility was the design and build of the product as well as a successful implementation of the product development pipeline. The structure and process at Platform allowed me to leverage my strengths as a designer and product leader to build amazing tools for their cohort of founders. It was at Platform that I learned how powerful low-code development platforms could be when properly integrated into the venture pipeline.

After two and a half amazing years at Platform, I jumped off of the deep end and began working for myself full time. With a full plate of exciting projects and a unique cast of founders, 2024 was a roller coaster of highs and lows. Wanting to focus more on my skills as a designer and leverage new tools, I prioritized products with a strong need for UX design and strategy. On more than one occasion, those companies learned to leverage my insights as a developer as well. By the end of 2024, I had acquired a small portfolio of unique startups, all of which with their own distinct learnings and failures.