About me

I'm a product designer that loves making joyful and accessible experiences.

On any given day, you'll find me noodling in Figma on UI, creating micro-animations in After Effects or vibe-coding this site.

Four planets in Scorpio walked into a design critique.

Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Saturn all in Scorpio. An Aquarius rising to soften the entry. A Scorpio Midheaven to make sure the work speaks for itself.

Recruiter Astrology

Independent contributor

8+ years

experience in Product Design

18,000

human-hours per year saved for a National Intel client

Design systems created

$800,000+

in savings for the State of Texas

Design leader

$##+m

in sales

0%

attrition rate in teams

##%

positive feedback from team members

Sun Scorpio 2.7°
Moon Scorpio 20.2°
Mercury Scorpio 12.4°
Venus Sagittarius 6.9°
Mars Capricorn 14.7°
Jupiter Capricorn 8.1°
Saturn Scorpio 17.3°
Rising Aquarius 23.5°
MC Scorpio 28.3°

Full disclosure: I'm not really into woo-woo stuff. But since my branding is built around an aura photo, I might as well have something here for my astrology girlies. Toggle back to Recruiter mode anytime.

What I bring to teams

What the chart forged

Real world experience

☉ ♄ MC · Scorpio stellium

Forged in the underworld and back

I've been in the industry for years. I've seen projects go swimmingly and wildly off the rails. I've dealt with the most toxic leaders and been shaped by the most empathic and talented humans out there. All this made me the designer and leader I am today.

Sun, Moon, Mercury, Saturn. All in Scorpio, with a Scorpio Midheaven capping it off. This is not a chart that skims. Every project, every difficult leader, every moment things nearly collapsed — it all went deep, processed, transformed. The designer you're meeting today was built in that fire.

Dive deep quickly

♀ Venus in Sagittarius

Water finds every crack

I've worked across more industries than most see in a lifetime. I know how to immerse myself quickly into a new domain and get up to speed.

Scorpio is a fixed water sign. It doesn't skim, it seeps. New industries, unknown domains, unfamiliar terrain? Venus in Sagittarius craves the unfamiliar and pulls toward the new, while the Scorpio stellium ensures nothing stays surface-level for long. Immersion isn't a strategy. It's written in the sky.

Tough calls

♂ ♃ Mars & Jupiter in Capricorn

Mars in Capricorn does the math

Working in the government and consulting space means no cushy timelines, no huge budget and often no research to rely on. This honed my intuition and experience for driving design decisions.

Mars, the planet of action and drive, sits in Capricorn — the sign of discipline, constraint, and execution without a safety net. Jupiter is there too, amplifying that energy. No research? No budget? Compressed timelines? That's not a red flag. That's the natural habitat.

What I don't

What the chart doesn't carry

Bullshit

☽ Moon in Scorpio

Neptune has no placement here

I'm a very honest person, always in a kind, empathetic way. Ask me if I'm a good fit for a job and I'll tell you the real answer. Ask me a tough question in an interview, you might not get the perfect answer, but you'll get the truth.

There is no fog here, no performance, no managed impression. A Moon in Scorpio demands emotional truth, especially when it's uncomfortable. You'll get the real answer — delivered with the warmth of a Sagittarius Venus that softens the delivery, but never waters down the content.

A FAANG resume

↑ Aquarius Rising

No tenth-house tech-giant legacy

If you're looking for someone that's been in that space, it ain't me friend. If you want pedigree in your hire, I'm sure there's a thousand other wonderful designers with that work history.

Aquarius rising means the first impression you get is unconventional — someone who doesn't quite fit the mold and isn't apologizing for it. Scorpio energy has never been interested in the name on the badge. It wants to know what's underneath it.

Ideal case studies

♄ Saturn in Scorpio

Saturn in Scorpio keeps it real

I've worked across small clients, consulting, government and accelerator programs, with dozens (hundreds?) of projects. I've never had one single perfect project. If you want to see a real case study, how the project went with all its constraints and flaws, you'll see it here.

Saturn, the planet of hard lessons and long work, is in Scorpio. There are no perfect case studies here because Saturn in Scorpio doesn't allow fairytales. What exists instead is the full, unfiltered story: the constraints, the pivots, the moments things nearly fell apart, and what came through on the other side.

Aura photography of Colin, showing yellow pink and blue colors around his headshot.

Resume

May 2025 - Present
Senior lead product designer @ Deloitte Digital
May 2023 - May 2025
Lead product designer @ Deloitte Digital
January 2020 - May 2023
Senior product designer @ Deloitte Digital
July 2019 - January 2020
Senior digital designer @ Aquent Federal
July 2017 - July 2019
Senior digital designer @ Travel Leaders Group
Things I love doing:
Interaction design
UI design
Usability Testing
Noodling in codepen / Working with devs
Saying "wouldn't it be cool if…."
Things I'm great at but hate:
Graphic Design
Updating my portfolio
Project management