Work Experience

• Design Engineer, Macro

  Aug, 2025 - Present

  • Instituted design system to unify fragmented product, improving UX and enabling teams to ship with confidence.

  • Developing mobile app using Tauri to wrap Rust + SolidJS monorepo, adding push notifications to unblock team and enterprise sales.

• Head of Everything, Miniware

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Independent consultancy specializing in organizational design and custom software development.

  • Shipped three first-party software products using Ruby on Rails and Sveltekit, achieving hundreds of users with zero marketing spend.

  • Enabled 2 clients to surpass $1M in ARR by structuring teams around stated goals and building systems of people, tools, and incentives.

  • Engineered automated font demo tool for DJR Type, eliminating $36k annual cost of bespoke microsites.

• VP, Creative & Design, Thesis

  Nov, 2020 - Jan, 20232 years 2 months

  Executive leadership across creative, post production, interface design, and studio functions.

  • Established 4 critical capabilities (frontend, design, post production, UGC, studio) by identifying gaps, securing resources, recruiting teams, developing processes, and training leaders to own each function.

  • Coached 4 ICs into management roles while maintaining 28% higher retention than company average.

  • Reorganized ~80 people into 7 cross-functional teams, maintaining boutique agency quality and startup agility at 5x scale.

  • Founded in-person film production studio at remote-first company, scaling to 5-person team producing 2,000-4,000 social assets monthly.

• Head of Design, Thesis

  Sep, 2019 - Nov, 20201 year 2 months

  • Doubled design team headcount while increasing service capacity by 370%.

  • Devised methods for maintaining 80+ design systems at web scale (millions of MAU across thousands of pages).

  • Developed hiring process for engineering and design teams, identifying and developing early-career talent that scaled company over 4 years.

  • Designed structured 90-day onboarding program driving higher-than-average retention while enabling IC contributions from week one.

• Lead Designer, Thesis

  Mar, 2019 - Sep, 20196 months

  • Tracked velocity improving team output by 70% through increased visibility into work flow.

  • Migrated team to Figma, reducing software costs by 89% ($39k to $4k annually) while positioning team for remote work.

• Lead Frontend Engineer, Thesis

  Sep, 2018 - Mar, 20196 months

  • Architected themable landing page library with YAML DSL, reducing page creation and A/B test variations from hours to minutes while drastically lowering testing costs.

  • Automated client onboarding reducing setup from 5 days to 4 hours while eliminating human error.

  • Hired 12 engineers, scaling team by 600% and establishing frontend and infrastructure disciplines.

  • Defined engineering processes (code review, CI, testing) maintaining code quality that prevented technical debt accumulation.

• Freelance Design + Code + Consulting, Nick Noble Works

  Jul, 2014 - Sep, 20184 years 2 months

  Maximized product value for companies across brand, web, internal tools, and production graphics.

  • Delivered brand, web, and product design for clients including HBO, Netflix, Gallup, and early-stage startups.

  • Produced historically accurate graphics and typography for award-nominated productions including The Irishman (ADG nomination), MANIAC, and The Deuce (93% RT).

• Interaction Designer, nclud

  Jan, 2014 - Jul, 20146 months

  • Executed design and development for enterprise clients including Google, Adobe, and Rosetta Stone.

• User Experience & Interface Designer (Contract), Dinner Lab INC

  Oct, 2013 - Jan, 20143 months

  • Prototyped membership portal for event feedback and ticketing, enabling company to scale from 8 to 31 cities internationally.

• Creative Director, Lanyap Creative

  Jan, 2013 - Dec, 201311 months

  • Launched New Orleans Tech Week and designed brand identity, growing event from startup concept into national conference.

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