Me and my wonderful wife, with our toy invention, Bouncy Blob.
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Howdy!
Play is my medium life.
Let's make some fun, together!
Designer 🤓
Teacher 🧠
Facilitator💡
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My family and I live in the chilly mountains of Arizona 🌲, where I like exploring the outdoors and working on DIY projects with my wife, three crazy kids, outdoor dog, and nineteen chickens 🐔.
As a design leader, I have a playful passion for impact, with 20+ years of experience across both design practice and education. I strive to bring a creative energy to every engagement and design intervention.
Currently, I am leading the Design Thinking program, as part of the enterprise User Experience team at Sherwin Williams, where I love tinkering with principles of play to engage people in learning and applying 'people first' approaches to solving large impact problems 🤜🤛.
Primary Skills
digital and physical product dev
design strategy
design thinking
product innovation
product portfolio planning
learning experience design
playful facilitation
cross-functional collaboration
instructor-led training
prototyping experiences
immersive experience design
co-creative research and design
qualitative research methods
behavior design
visual thinking
one-handed clapping
qualitative research
tinkering - thinking with my 👐
Personal Passions
play @ work
cultivating creativity
experiential prototyping
tinkering, making, DIY
adventure playthings (escape rooms, playgrounds, cardboard boxes)
PEZ candy dispensers
time & clocks
homesteading
family & faith
outdoorsy activities
vintage furniture
fresh socks
Current Roles
Sherwin Williams - Leading the adoption of design thinking as a key component in the transformation of the organization's culture, strategy, and approach to what is next for Sherwin Williams.
Blob Life - My wife and I are on a mission to help kids fight the 'blob life' and get them moving with toys that promote active and imaginative play.
Playful Factory - Cultivating creative confidence by helping kids design and fabrication their own toys at camps and in the classroom.
Maker Club - Mentoring teenager's to spark interest in STEM through making at our local community center.
Recent Projects
Brand + AI - Working with internal product / brand teams at Sherwin Williams to facilitate and coach them in the definition of strategies for the role generative AI will play in improving the customer experience.
Facilitation & Collaboration Training - Developed and delivering workshop style training to individuals and teams at Sherwin Williams, boosting their confidence to lead and participate in guided collaborative creative decision making.
Tech X - Co-developed and presented content on Empathy, Joy, and Play at an internal Sherwin Williams conference, with an attendance of 1200+.
Immersive Experience Design Course - Developed and taught project-based course for Siebel Center for Design, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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