Seasoned, global award-winning UX Designer/Researcher with an inventive talent for imagining new + empirically-validated digital products and services.

Inspired by human-focused, empirically-evidenced, Agile development.

Seeking to flourish with the consentient.

To build Impossibly Great Things.

And make a difference.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking for a cool, affordable place to crash with a laid-back local vibe as I have several important meeting lined up in SF/SV in the tech sector. I'm chill AF, clean, neat, respectful, open, compassionate, handy-man and mainly gonna be in/out 50/50. When I am in it's basically to just crash out and then back out and at it again so I won't be leaving much of a foot-print. And I totally clean up after myself so zero ripple. Prefer a place that is not a hard-core party spot. But I am happy to throw in a hand if you're feeling festive. =)

Interests

Interests: aerial views, anthropology, archeology, architecture, art, astronomy, cartography, chaos theory, chess, cinema (which is European for "movies"), cognitive science, computer science, cuisine (which is, again, European for "cookin' food"), economic theory (macro), Emily Strange, ethnology, etymologies, evolution, flight, friends, freak accidents, game theory, geography, history (military and art in particular), HCI, language, linguistics, media, mountaineering, music, narrative structures, Nihon, nutrition, onsens, physics, revolutions, semiotics, science, shoes, software, tennis, Travel, walking, wine, word-play

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Movies: Criterion Collection.
Allen, Aronofsky, Bergman, Besson, Borzáge, Brown, Buñel, Burton, Capra, Cassavettes, Chaplin, Coens, Coppola (both), De Mille, Demme, DePalma, Eastwood, Eisenstein, Fellíni, Fleming, Ford, Gibson, Gilliam, Goddard, Griffith, Herzog, Hitchcock, Huston, Jarmusch, Kazan, Kramer, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Lean, Lee, Lucas, Lumét, Malick, Mingella, Murnau, Peckinpah, Polanski, Raimi, Russell, Schnabel, Scorsese, Scott, Stone, Tarantino, Truffaut, Weir, Welles, Wilder, Zemeckis

Favorite Books: Just finished Auguston Bourough's "DRY": woo! stellar crazy good. People seeing me on the subway laughing with tears streaming down my face. Moved onto the same authors previous book, "Running with Scissors." UGH.

Now reading "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx (I know, I know but still; you don't have to roll your eyes like that!), "Wikinomics" and a bio on Faulkner.

Faulkner... MMM... Wicked Fucking Southern Gothic Guttural Horrors Bad-Ass.

*Sigh* Now can someone please fucking help me fathom Harold Bloom? =)

art and design, biographies, cookbooks, economics, linguistics, philosophy, screenplays, technical documents, travel books... I secretly read "Glamour" and "Cosmopolitan" magazines. what a twinky...

"Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part..."

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."

CINEMA (no order)
- The Lion in Winter
- Apocalypto
- Fight Club
- Pulp Fiction
- The Thin Red Line

MUSIC (no order)
- Alternative
- BritPop
- Rock (classic + college)
- Classical
- Jazz

BOOKS (no order)
- Man's Search For Meaning
- Angelas's Ashes
- Proust
- Faulkner
- History
- Biographies

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled and lived around the globe multiple times...

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
Bosnia
Cambodia
Canada
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Deutschland
England
España
France
Gibraltar
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Israel
Italia
Japan
Jordan
Laos
Lebanon
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Mexico
Mongolia
Morocco
Netherlands
Norway
Palestine
Peru
Poland
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Suisse
Sweden
Syria
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
USA
Vatican City
Viet Nam
Wales

Teach, Learn, Share

UNIVERSITY FACULTY
University of San Francisco
Taught Graduate and Undergraduate courses including MFA Thesis Advisory Committee

Academy of Art University
Taught 13 unique fields of study
in 2 departments

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whatever I can!

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, Denmark, England, France, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United States