Hi, I’m Mark (they/them) — a UX designer, product manager, and creative technologist currently living in Austin, Texas.
I build apps and websites designed to scale gracefully from single-user tools to expansive enterprise platforms. Currently, I'm leading UX and product design for a major telecommunications company's construction platform as a consultant at BP3, balancing detailed wireframes in Miro, polished mockups in Figma, highly-interactive prototypes in Angular, and keeping product roadmaps clear and effective.
Beyond my day-to-day, I'm an avid hobbyist developer experimenting with modern web and mobile tech stacks — Astro, React Router, Solid, Svelte, Deno, Swift — and a volunteer with Open Austin, working on civic tech initiatives alongside the Austin Public Library.
Cooking is my creative outlet, and over the years I've collected thousands of recipes and cooked hundreds of recipes, steadily developing my own creations along the way. Baking sourdough is my latest culinary adventure, challenging me with precision and patience.
In my downtime, I'm always seeking the next great TV show (recommendations welcome!), aspiring to play video games, or enjoying peaceful walks on Walnut Creek Trail — as long as it's not 100ºF outside 🥵
Things I Say
Some refrains you'll often hear from me:
We can make the user experience of analog products better without making them digital.
Humans are a equatorial species who were never meant to live this far away from the equator.
“That’s the way it’s always been done!” is always a bad reason to keep doing something. Always.
Socials
I've tried to mostly divest from social media, but I still maintain some sort of a presence on a few platforms:
Talks
- A Tour of Compilers in the React Router Ecosystem Remix Austin Meetup
- Performant Websites with Remix Remix Austin Meetup
- How to Create Your Own JavaScript Framework Remix Austin Meetup