Hi, my name is Scott. I was raised in Temecula, CA and moved to Pittsburgh, PA to attend Carnegie Mellon University. There I discovered a passion for reimagining how humans consider and interact in the world they live in. That passion led me to co-found a number of startups from a hyper-localized Q&A app to a platform that utilized automated telephone calls and speech recognition technology to acquire large disparate data sets.

In 2013, I moved to Washington, DC to work for Capital One where I designed and built dashboards to monitor different platforms supporting their banks. In 2016, I decided to return to Pittsburgh to pursue a Masters in Design and a Masters in Design for Interactions.

My graduate studies at CMU helped me realize the value I could bring to the world if I focus on projects that not only matter to me but also have the potential to positively affect society. Most importantly, I realized how design could embrace what makes us uniquely human (i.e. our ability for self-expression, for understanding others, and our idiosyncrasies). I became particularly interested in exploring ways of broadening an individual's understanding of both themselves and the world they surround themselves with.

While there, I had internships at Amazon and Mapzen. On campus I spent a significant amount of time considering the relationship between humans and the artificial, beyond the dimensions of efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. This culminated in a thesis on how products might be designed to enhance intimate partners' capacity for expression and understanding in their relationships.

In 2020, I joined Zenda where I initially Ied design teams and worked with business stakeholders to understand and organize the human context of their work. For the past 2 years, I have served as a principal designer where I lead a design and development team in concepting, designing, and building a new 'work design' software system/product.

I am excited when I have the opportunity to create experiences and conversations that reflect the realities of the world, reveal the seams associated with a topic, clarify complexity, can be felt within someone's being, are relatable, activate someone's imagination, and enable humans to look at themselves and the world through a mirror.