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I'm the design mercenary of choice for focused, organized product teams.
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Professional Portfolio
Puzzle: Integrating a Headless CMS
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Integrating a headless CMS to flow through to both Figma and custom front end code.

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Think Twice: Landing Page Refresh
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Talking about UX goals, UI goals, and collaboration during a landing page refresh for Think Twice.

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Snap! Manage: A New North Star
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Concepting a new North Star vision to unify siloed acquisitions was only the beginning. Next, I had to sell that vision to key internal stakeholders.

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Snap! Manage: Tangential Tasks
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Reimagining legacy interactions to focus customers on their goals while they complete tangential tasks in an acquired Enterprise platform.

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Snap! Manage: Seeing Beneath the Surface
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Recognizing opportunities in what might, on the surface, seem like just a set of production tasks.

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MyLyricsMaker
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Helping 40x daily users with Information Architecture and UI changes for an early stage Mobile B2C Generative AI startup.

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Design System Colors, Phase 2
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Adding use guidelines, integrating the new section into the existing page, and updating the page code in GitHub.

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Design System Colors, Phase 1
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Migrating a document to the web, creating an internal-facing creation tool, and iterating with Tailwind CSS.

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Bootcamp and spec work (2020)
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Smart-payer

Communication, strategy, and asset delivery while leading a team of 3.
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Bootcamp + client

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Purrfect Cats

Using research to determine page structure, and adding business value with a new feature.
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Spec work

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EasyVote

Integrating voter information pamphlets into the digital ballot based on a research-prompted pivot.

Bootcamp

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GalleryPal

Enhancing the art gallery experience with camera search and e-commerce in an iOS app design.
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Bootcamp

“His ability to ask great questions makes him a key team player.”
Anna Peng, Founder
Resume
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Max is a design mercenary known for being flexible, curious, low-ego, and committed to high-quality results. Results like 40x-ing daily user count, or dropping usability complaints to zero. This is the front page of his resume, showcasing work experience dating back to 2020.
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“Max is reliable, steadfast, and checked in on a deep level with each person he comes across.”
Alexander Merenkov, Product and Program Manager
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Right now, I'm open to UX Consulting clients and Full-Time W2 inquiries.
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