27 years leading teams and aligning creative, technology, engineering, fabrication, operations, and delivery — from the first idea through implementation.
I started my career as a graphic designer and grew into the role of Executive Creative Director at Dimensional Innovations — an Overland Park, Kansas-based experience design and build firm. Over nearly three decades, I led the creative practice through a period of significant growth, ultimately overseeing a 20-person multidisciplinary team responsible for some of the company's most complex and visible projects.
My background is rooted in industrial design, which gave me something most creative directors don't have: a genuine understanding of how physical things get made and what it actually costs to make them. That fabrication-grounded instinct — knowing how a design decision ripples through engineering, manufacturing, cost, schedule, and installation — became the foundation of how I work. It's the reason I could lead DI's work on the LEGO Ferrari attraction from concept through install, coordinate a 7-ton LED baseball installation on a 4-month fabrication timeline, or align a 20-person cross-functional team across a multi-year project without losing the thread between creative intent and operational reality.
Today, I bring that experience to organizations facing complex challenges involving people, technology, creative thinking, operations, and delivery. I work best when the problems are genuinely difficult — when there's no obvious answer, when teams need someone who can hold the whole thing together, and when the stakes are high enough that getting it right actually matters.
I'm also open to the right full-time opportunity where my background in cross-functional delivery, technology, operations, and creative problem-solving can add value.
I use AI as a tool to accelerate research, exploration, analysis, communication, and workflow — never as a substitute for original thinking or final creative concepts. Final concepts, creative decisions, and design direction remain human-led. I believe the strongest use of AI is to help teams work smarter while keeping creative judgment, authorship, and accountability human.
"Won Best of Show for the Kansas City Public Library Book Bindings installation — a civic landmark that transformed a parking garage façade into one of the city's most recognized public art pieces."