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Nested teams & permission inheritance

When a contract with the European Union demanded thousands of users, Cycloid's flat team model broke. I designed a nested hierarchy with inherited, role-based permissions — scoping a hard problem into shippable surfaces and flagging every assumption early.

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Jul 2, 2025
2 min read

Designing the edge

Configuring IIoT edge devices shouldn't need a manual — a look at AVEVA Edge Management.

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Northwest Vipers — a website redesign the club can own

A broken WordPress site rebuilt from scratch as a static 11ty + Markdown platform non-technical volunteers maintain themselves — and an information architecture that finally represents all four squads equally.

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Feb 1, 2022
3 min read

Design sprinting with ProCon

Introducing a lightweight design-sprint ceremony to fix a lack of team buy-in.

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Jan 1, 2017
2 min read

ProCon, rebuilt for usability

Taking AVEVA's contract-risk software from a database-on-a-screen to something people could actually use.

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