Childhood

I grew up in a mixed-heritage and blue-collar family in Bangor, Maine. My mom is Puerto Rican, my dad is a Maine native, and my two older siblings were both born with special needs. While I enjoyed and excelled in math and science, my mother’s creative practice had a profound influence on me. With no museums nearby and the World Wide Web long in the distance, I checked out art books and magazines from the library and delivered newspapers to purchase art supplies through mail-order catalogs.

Education and work experience

I graduated with a BA in Studio Art and English from Bowdoin College, and in my senior year, I studied Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. A formative experience was an internship at Eastman Kodak’s Center for Creative Imaging in 1992 because it introduced me to digital design tools. Upon graduation, I worked in small design studios designing projects for IBM, Harvard, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco before moving to California in 1996 to work for Netscape. I then went on to Shutterfly, Adobe, Google, and YouTube. I hold ten utility and design patents and have designed experiences that billions use daily. I am currently head of design at a stealth startup.

Personal life

I live in San Francisco bay area and have two teenaged daughters, two dogs, and look forward to becoming an empty nester in the next year.

In my free time, I enjoy drawing and seeing art in museums and galleries, hiking with my dogs and friends, cooking at home or finding new places to eat, and woodworking.

Colophon

I developed the site with a few things. The front-end uses Next.js and it is hosted on Vercel. The back-end for content uses Sanity.io. Styling is with Tailwind CSS. The font is Work Sans and the icons are from FontAwesome. The site is responsive and has a dark mode. The site is a work in progress and I hope to be adding more content like woodworking and art projects in the future.