Brand systems, client communications, interface engineering, presentation design. I think in pixels and tokens, breakpoints and gradients, the relationship between letterforms and the products they live inside. This page itself is the strongest evidence.
Engineers solve problems. Designers solve perception. The best work happens when the same person can do both — because most production problems are perception problems, and most perception problems are systems problems wearing a different jacket.
My design instinct comes from engineering: every choice has a tradeoff, every system has constraints, and clarity always beats decoration. I'd rather strip ten things off a page than add one. The goal isn't beauty for its own sake — it's beauty that communicates.
Client communications design under real stakes. Delivering price-increase news without losing client trust.
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Microsoft announced commercial M365 pricing changes effective July 2026, with estimated impacts ranging from ~5% to ~16% across Business and Enterprise tiers. AC4S — Tampa Bay's managed IT partner — needed to inform its client base early so they could review licenses, budgets, and renewal strategy before the changes hit at renewal time.
The challenge wasn't the information. It was the tone. Price-increase news without on-brand polish risks looking like a panic blast. Done right, it builds trust by showing the partner is paying attention.
Distributed as both a print-ready PDF and digital announcement. Clients received it ahead of renewal cycles with enough lead time to evaluate. The piece reads as "informed partner getting ahead of an industry change" — exactly the position AC4S needs to occupy.
A brand isn't a logo. It's the system that makes every artifact feel inevitable.
The site you're reading. Five-color palette, dual-font hierarchy (Poppins + JetBrains Mono), three distinct visual languages across discipline pages (tactical for cyber, console for engineering, editorial for design). Custom CSS, no theme — every gradient, animation, and component is hand-built.
11+ sub-brands under one parent identity. Built the corporate site to communicate ecosystem hierarchy without flattening any individual brand. The challenge: each sub-brand needs its own visual handle, but the system overall needs to read as one company. Solved through divider repetition, consistent logo grid scale, and shared gradient language.
Live elements pulled from the design system this site runs on.
cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1)
250ms · hover, focus
350ms · cards, panels
600ms · scroll, mount
FSU final presentation for Transfers Helping Transfers, delivered as a complete pixel-art retro game UI. Player health bars, score counters, menu screens, scene transitions. Every slide treated as a level, not a slide.
The argument: presentations fail because they look like presentations. The audience switches off the moment they recognize the format. A deck that looks like something else — a game, a magazine, a software interface — buys back attention.
Real stack. No "expert in Photoshop" claims.
Wireframes, component libraries, prototypes. Primary design tool — UX work at KARE, the AC4S advisory, every component before code.
The portfolio you're on is hand-coded CSS — no theme, no framework. Most of my visual work ships as code, not as a static export.
Illustrator + Photoshop for branding asset work. Vector logos, raster prep for print and digital, batch image processing.
Fast-turnaround social graphics for THT and KARE event marketing. The right tool when speed beats fidelity.
Brand systems, client communications design, custom-coded interfaces, presentation work. Especially interested in projects where engineering and design have to live in the same head.