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Early insights. Later is a fiction.

I create business and data products that reduce effort, build loyalty, automate work, and create new lines of revenue.

Reduce effort
−49.9%Measured
task effort, prototype vs. current
Equinix · SmartView
Build loyalty
+2.04%Measured
subscriptions kept after 4 weeks
BOLD · Resume Builder
Automate work
850 hrs/wk (21 FTE)Client data
labor hours recoverable each week
Walmart · OneTrack
Grow revenue
+25%Client data
conversion
Amazon · Style (store level)
Equinix data center building at dusk
Featured case

Equinix SmartView

A mixed-methods evaluation of an infrastructure dashboard

Two studies. First, think-aloud sessions with IBX technicians and site managers, coded thematically, showed where the current dashboard failed and shaped the prototype. Then a Wizard-of-Oz prototype went head to head with the current dashboard on real tasks: NASA-TLX self-ratings, calibrated observer ratings, Krippendorff’s α, and a mixed-effects model to separate the interface from the rater.

Study 2 · Quantitative

NASA-TLX workload reduction vs. current dashboard

Self-rated, within-subjects prototype study, n = 6. Measured

Reliability & model

ICC (2,K)0.96
Krippendorff's α0.92
Observers6
ModelMixed-effects
random intercepts
See methods and full analysis →

Study 1 · Qualitative

What IBX technicians and site managers told us

RITE think-aloud on authentic tasks, transcribed and coded thematically. These themes set the prototype brief: alert control, visible feedback, and a mobile-responsive view.

Alerts built one asset at a time
“Now I’ve only been able to select 4 out of the 20 generators… for us in Singapore, it’s a very, very time-consuming process.”
Workarounds outside the product
“We’d really need to create a spreadsheet for ourselves off to the side… It’s just like a list that grows and grows and grows.”
No feedback loop
“It’s disconnected, like there’s missing feedback. You don’t really see… where you put an alert on or what kind of alert.”
Access beyond the desk
“If there was an option to have a mobile login to that, I think I would definitely take advantage of that.”
Evaluation demonstration

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Rate three AI-generated answers the way a calibrated rater would. After each one, see what an evidence rubric looks for — where an answer claims more than the image can show.

A demonstration, not a comparison against a reference panel. Nothing you enter is stored.

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How would you respond to a caregiver who is worried about a new red area on a patient’s heel?

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How I work
D2P2

Describe → Diagnose → Predict → Prescribe

Move the leading metrics before the lagging ones arrive: $1 in pre-development, $10 during development, $100 after hand-off.

Explore the method →
  1. 1
    Describe
    Understand people, contexts and constraints.
  2. 2
    Diagnose
    Find what's working, what's not, and why.
  3. 3
    Predict
    Model outcomes and estimate impact before building.
  4. 4
    Prescribe
    Choose the smallest change that moves the outcome.
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Teaching & mentorship

UXPA field experience, UX Collaborative, workshops, university teaching and mentorship.

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