I was Director of Product at Breezy HR for three years. Before that I spent fifteen years making iPhone and Android apps. Now I run Glass Effect, building software that fits the way small businesses already work.
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I ran product, design, and engineering as one team that shipped every week. Before that I built and maintained Breezy's iPhone and Android apps, rated 4.6 on the App Store.
A new product for onboarding new hires, sold on top of Breezy's hiring plans. I led product and engineering on it.
Live chat for fans during games, with thousands of people in the same conversation. I led the developers and designers who shipped it.
Recommendations for local businesses and events, driven by machine learning. I worked with the executive team on design and roadmap, and took it from concept to the App Store.
My first company. More than 50 custom iPhone and iPad apps for clients in healthcare, recruiting, and live events. 90% of clients came back for more work or sent a referral.
The ghost detector apps my daughter tried were glitchy and full of ads. So I made her one with no ads, no tracking, no data monitoring, nothing you wouldn't want on your kids iPad. Fun and free.
Chord-based music app for playing piano. It does one job: keep the song readable while you play. Made for myself, to help me learn to play.
My audiobook and ebook library. I weighed it against Audiobookshelf and Calibre-Web and built my own, to organize my books my way.
The work queue I run every project from. Replaced an expensive SaaS platform that was doing too much I didn't need.
A retro-tech themed puzzle game about a kid, a modem, and getting in over your head. Based in 1993.
The job-board-approved version of everything on this site.
Download the PDFI still ship my own ideas. Coding agents build the side projects from my specs; I decide what they do and judge the result.
When the official tool isn't how the team actually works, the tool is wrong. Match the process they have before asking anyone to change it.
If someone has to spend months configuring it and then keep it configured, the product isn't done. Give people the screens they use and no others.
Spectra has one screen, no ads, and no tracking. Most of the product work was choosing what to leave out.
Field crews lose signal. Their app should keep working and catch up when it can, so nobody waits on the software.
At Breezy, product, design, and engineering shipped as one team every week. Small releases got real feedback sooner. Customers got new features faster.
Write down the key essentials of what you're making, then build rapid prototypes. Hands on testing beats a 10 page spec document every time.
Newest first. The long version is in my resume.
Email is the fastest way to reach me. For client work, start at glasseffect.com.
