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Through Line: understanding how things get made and the people that make them
From designing things to shaping tools + systems
When I’m feeling glib—or when I need to explain what I do to my grandparents—I like to say that I started as a designer and now I’m a meta designer. I was someone who drafted the plan for where the nuts and bolts go, and now I help define and deliver new products and processes for others to do that work more effectively. On a resume I often say I’m a Product Leader, a System Designer, and sometimes I even use the trusty LinkedIn standby: Product @ [enter company here].
A varied background
My career path hasn’t exactly been linear. I started my work life in the fine arts as a sculpture studio assistant. I taught middle school history for a minute before moving into furniture design and fabrication. After a design-focused masters degree, I pivoted into tech and have spent the last several years building better tools for people that shape the world we inhabit.
The through line
Those descriptions of what I do are overly polished, a little buzz-word heavy and tailored for the algorithm, but I do I like them—mostly because they speak to the through line that cuts across a lot of my professional and personal pursuits: I like learning about how things get made and the people that make them.