The engagements are interim on purpose: the exit date is set on day one, and part of the job is hiring the person I hand it to. What's left when I go is a function that runs without me: the ladder, the hiring system, the research operation, all of it documented for my successor.

Most recently, I was interim Head of Design at Bubble: I ran the design org through a personnel and product reorganization, rebuilt hiring from the ground up, replaced the research platform and the recruiting workflows around it and transitioned the whole enterprise to the newly hired Director of Product Design.

Before that, I was the founding design leader at Sigma Computing. Five years, zero to $50M ARR, a 21-person team, and the only org in the company with zero regretted attrition when I left. I started that tenure by fixing the talent problems that came before me. That's still the work I like best.

I started as an interaction designer over 25 years ago and worked my way through the roles the field invented along the way: UX designer, information architect, product manager, data analyst, design leader, executive. That path ran through Escalate Retail, Yahoo!, NetSuite, BEA Systems, SAP BusinessObjects and Databricks, with a lot of enterprise software shipped and a few acquisitions and IPOs in between.

A proud French-Canadian, I grew up splitting my time between Ottawa and Montréal; these days, home is San Francisco. I am a lifelong fan of the Montréal Canadiens hockey team and have recently discovered a newfound love for Golden State Valkyries WNBA basketball. Off the clock, I throw stoneware (mostly beer steins, each stamped with a bear paw) and fly fish, usually with my recruiting partner. I write about hiring, portfolios, and running design teams on Substack.