I’m an American x Canadian product designer, seeking contract roles in North America. Currently, I’m the founding designer for Amazon’s Japan Consumer Innovation organization, establishing the roots of a design-centric organization while leading product design on internal & vendor-facing automation solutions to drive customer success.
Designing beyond limits
Navigating design organizational challenges at a global tech giant
Scaling towards a personalized marketplace
Designing modularly for 20 million users.
Visualizing the ugly numbers, so that you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to get it.
My hope is to solve everyday problems by creating experiences that empower the user, and offer them the best, clearest information possible. My strength lies in my broad background of over 10 years experience in the tech industry across various roles, leveraging a diverse set of skills and high level of technical aptitude to reinforce my design decisions.
👨💻 Developer Background
Informing my design decisions with technical requirements, implications and expectations in mind.
🗻 Project Management
Understanding the importance of inserting myself into every step of the product lifecycle, and effectively communicating with cross-functional team members to overcome obstacles.
💼 Solutions Consulting
Ability to probe deep and identify problems or opportunities that even the user may not be aware of.
🎥 Media Production
Keen sense for creating experiences through visual storytelling to empathize with my audience, while holding myself accountable to a high degree of attention for detail.
“Bryan brings a lot of strengths to his work at Amazon. What stands out for me is his insistence on the highest standard when it comes to the optimal design-driven product decision making. He also demonstrates strong customer obsession, as reflected in his usability studies and proposals on a revised customer journey map. He is not afraid of challenging the assumptions made by his PM and Engineering partners, while asking tough but critical questions to improve collaboration processes among stakeholders. Within 6 months of joining the team, he already delivered results and assisted multiple teams to deal with complexity. His document writing skills are also above his peers, as demonstrated in the logical and holistic thoughts presented on the frameworks and options for the future of UX, PM, Engineering collaboration. Bryan has the potential to help Amazon JP Retail establish the UX center of excellence and a scalable mechanism of UX driven problem finding and problem solving.”
“I enthusiastically recommend Bryan as a UI/UX designer. Over two years of collaboration, Bryan has consistently delivered stunning and user-friendly designs. I’ve greatly appreciated his attention to detail, innovation, and commitment to perfection. Moreover, Bryan’s positive attitude and professionalism make him a joy to work with. I wholeheartedly endorse Bryan for any design project – he is a true standout in the field.”
“Bryan came in and has rapidly revolutionized the way we work. His mocks are always excellent and fast—meaning we can get them in front of client engineers quickly to get feedback and find out where the gaps are. Bryan’s greatest strength is his ability to communicate, which we have already leveraged heavily. He’s got a sharp mind and keeps us focused on the user experience. It is an absolute pleasure to work with such a talented, confident designer. I can’t wait to build great things with him.”
“Bryan is very adept at design and online collaboration! In particular, I feel that he is very good at iterating through design deliverables. His thought process, logic and design thinking that he shares during design critiques are very organized and easy to understand. I’ve learned from Bryan to have a high standard of quality, even during the messy iterative stages of design. Friendly by nature, he’s helped foster a really good atmosphere within the product design team. ”
