Hi, I'm Michael. Nice to meet you. 👋
I'm a full-stack developer with a primary focus on UI/UX design + development. With over 15 years of experience, I specialize in crafting accessible, responsive, pixel-perfect web applications and websites that blend thoughtful design with robust engineering. My passion is in translating design concepts into high-performance digital solutions, ensuring seamless user experiences for diverse audiences — prioritizing performance and usability.
In my spare time, you can find me in the mountains ⛰️ — rock climbing, backpacking, and trail running.
I also lead an award-winning design/build and studio art practice.
Experience
I've had the opportunity to collaborate with clients across a variety of settings — from marketing agencies and large corporations, to a number of higher-education institutions, developing innovative web products for students and researchers.
Professional
Designer + Researcher
Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM)
Led prototype development for a patent-pending integrated building product. Contributed to architectural and masterplanning projects, developing digital workflows to enhance design visualization and documentation.
UI/UX Designer + Developer
Terner Center for Housing Innovation | UC Berkeley
Designed and developed a web app for analyzing proprietary housing policy and land use data for hundreds of California cities. Collaborated with researchers to visualize complex datasets for policy insights.
Front-End Developer + UI/UX Designer
Harvard Business School
Designed and developed internal and external web applications and websites using modern front-end technologies. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define requirements and integrate back-end technologies. Developed API endpoints to support dynamic front-end functionality.
Senior Web Developer + Designer
Barrus Digital
Led front-end and back-end web development for full-featured websites serving large organizations. Managed client collaboration, new technology research + integration, and internal process optimization.
Lead Web Developer + Designer
University of Nebraska
Designed and developed a web-based survey application for thousands of students, integrating data capture, reporting, and visualization technologies.
Academic
University of California, Berkeley
Master of Architecture +
Master of City PlanningEisner Prize in Architecture, Richard Bender Fellowship
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Master in Architecture Program
GSD Grant Award
Hunter College, City University of New York
Master of Fine Arts
Skills + Technologies
Front-End JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Sass
Back-End PHP, Python, SQL, XML/XSLT, Solr
Tools & Frameworks Vue.js, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Git, npm, Vite, Jira
CMS & Web Platforms AWS, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, SharePoint
UX & Accessibility Responsive Design, WCAG + Section 508, User Testing
Software Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, ArcGIS, Rhino 3D, BIM
Projects
I've designed + developed a wide range of projects — from web applications with thousands of users to websites with even more daily visitors, primarily in higher-education environments.
myHBS Student App
Harvard Business School
myHBS consolidates data from dozens of disparate sources into a single intuitive interface – allowing students to view and manage class and event schedules, notifications, hours, and student profiles.
HBS Insights
Harvard Business School
HBS Insights provides a single point of access to data scattered across school departments, providing information on institutional connections to a given company — faculty research, alumni contacts, etc.
HBS Alumni Website
Harvard Business School
The Alumni website at HBS is one of the primary vehicles driving alumni relations and fundraising, providing access to the alumni community, career services, giving, and more.
HBS Working Knowledge
Harvard Business School
An online magazine and central repository for faculty research, papers, and case studies, allowing users to search by topic, faculty name, industry, geography, as well as comment on the most recent knowledge produced by HBS faculty.
Housing Scorecard
Terner Center for Housing Innovation
A web app allowing users to search housing policy and land use data for nearly 500 municipalities across California, including the visualization and summary of complex datasets to reveal policy insights and provide guidance to policymakers.
College Alcohol Profile Survey App
University of Nebraska
A survey app used by thousands of students across dozens of colleges and universities, to conduct research on student behaviors around alcohol, with feedback presented to users after survey completion. Integrates data capture, reporting and visualization.