Hi! I'm Chris. I’ve always been fascinated by user experience design and how it impacts peoples everyday lives. The creative process of designing products that enhance and empower communities is what I love.

My design background started in technical apparel design where I was Global Product Manager in the action sports (surf, skate and snowboard) apparel industry for over 10 years. It’s in this role that blended the business and design aspects of product development is where I grew a passion for the design process. From researching, concepting to prototyping. Then on the business side to creating roadmaps and managing the development calendar. It’s also a position that allowed me to advocate on the customers/users behalf. Now I’m looking bring those skills into digital product design. The skills that I learned in this field is product/user research, prototyping, product testing, collaboration, interpersonal communication, decision making and active listening all of which share similarities to the user experience design skillset.

My goal is to create holistic experiences that are meaningful and delightful between people and the interactive products they use.

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Outside of design I'm a self-proclaimed waterman that enjoys spending time in the ocean from surfing, free diving to outrigger canoe paddling. Last year I successfully paddled the Catalina channel under 4 hours. One of my near term goals is to one day paddle across the Ka'iwi channel from Oahu to Molokai.