A · The ask What people ask for and what they need are rarely the same. B · The need I design and build what they need. Currently Software engineer at Microsoft, building data entry UI for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
Featured work 04 entries 01 Spring 2025 · UX design and front-end development
They asked for Excel upload. What they needed was a form that worked.
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Ask Excel upload
Need A form that worked 02 In development · Design and development
A seat-back screen with a real flight underneath. Leave mid-flight, and the plane keeps flying.
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Brief A seat-back screen for a fictional airline
Taking it further A flight that holds up for hours 03 Fall 2024 · Design and development
Typing on Vision Pro meant a floating keyboard or speaking out loud. I designed a way to spell with your hands.
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Brief New ways to type on Vision Pro
Taking it further Typing without a keyboard or a voice 04 Fall 2026 · Design and development
A portfolio is a work sample, so the site had to make the same argument the work does.
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Brief A portfolio
Taking it further Making it a work sample in itself See all work →
Visual design Signs, guides, and logos that real people use. The process is the same as my interfaces: find the real problem, work inside the constraints, and iterate.
Client work · Summer–Fall 2026 Arvila Logging A logo for my uncle’s logging company, built around his own truck. Client work · Summer–Fall 2026
Arvila Logging My uncle runs a logging business in northern Minnesota and wanted a logo he could use everywhere. He tried getting AI to generate one first, but it couldn’t match what he had in mind.
The axes and trees were clean ideas, and I killed them for being generic. For a small business, being personal matters, and that truck is his truck, the one he’s proud of. So I redrew it to be simpler but still recognizable, and put it at the center. The logo is on shirts, hats, and hoodies today, and it’s ready to go further.
Open gallery, image 1 of 10 Client’s photo Open gallery, image 2 of 10 v1 Open gallery, image 3 of 10 v2 Open gallery, image 4 of 10 v4 Open gallery, image 5 of 10 v5 Open gallery, image 6 of 10 v6 Open gallery, image 7 of 10 v7 Open gallery, image 8 of 10 v8 Open gallery, image 9 of 10 v9 Open gallery, image 10 of 10 v10 · Final NDSU AV Technology · December 2024 Classroom quick start Rewritten around what instructors need when they walk into a room. NDSU AV Technology · December 2024
Classroom quick start The original sticker worked, but it was written from the perspective of the people who designed the classrooms. I rebuilt it around what instructors and anyone else using the room need: how to start class, which mode to pick, and where to get help. The branding got updated too, so it looks professional and intentional without giving up any function.
I designed it in December 2024, and it was printed and deployed to roughly 150 classrooms, where it’s still in use. It was the first design work of mine that was mass produced, and it reached students and staff across campus.
Open gallery, image 1 of 6 Original Open gallery, image 2 of 6 v1 Open gallery, image 3 of 6 v2 Open gallery, image 4 of 6 v3 Open gallery, image 5 of 6 v4 Open gallery, image 6 of 6 v5 · Final Client work · Rebrand exploration · Summer 2024 Valley View A proposed rebrand for a small accounting firm, kept to one strong idea. Client work · Rebrand exploration · Summer 2024
Valley View An experiment for Valley View Book and Tax, a small accounting firm in southwest Minnesota, to test a possible rebrand. The decision hasn’t been made, so this is a proposal, not a logo in use.
The mountains went first, because they didn’t reflect the landscape of southwest Minnesota. The compass from the firm’s existing logo stayed, since guiding people through tax and accounting is the point. Early rounds used the firm’s existing red, and the final purple came from the owner’s direction, to convey trust.
Open gallery, image 1 of 9 Existing logo Open gallery, image 2 of 9 v1 Open gallery, image 3 of 9 v2 Open gallery, image 4 of 9 v3 Open gallery, image 5 of 9 v4 Open gallery, image 6 of 9 v5 Open gallery, image 7 of 9 v6 Open gallery, image 8 of 9 v7 Open gallery, image 9 of 9 v8 · Final NDSU AV Technology · Spring 2025 Core Technology Classroom A guide for a new kind of room, in the university’s stronger brand. NDSU AV Technology · Spring 2025
Core Technology Classroom A new type of classroom, part of a campus trial, needed its own guide. The university was also working to strengthen and unify its brand, which is why this looks so different from the older sticker beside it.
Each callout connects directly to the control it explains on a picture of the touch panel, so nobody has to translate the instructions into the room in front of them. It’s in active use.
Open gallery, image 1 of 2 Standard classroom Open gallery, image 2 of 2 Core Technology NDSU AV Technology · October 2025 Start of Shift Essentials Four things every technician checks on arriving at the office. NDSU AV Technology · October 2025
Start of Shift Essentials A poster for the AV technician office: check Teams, the WebJet computer, open tickets, and email, in that order.
The first version was a plain list. Numbers came next, on alternating sides, and the final version lines them up down one side so the order reads straight down the poster. It’s in active use.
Open gallery, image 1 of 3 v1 Open gallery, image 2 of 3 v2 Open gallery, image 3 of 3 v3 · Final NDSU AV Technology · August 2024 AirMedia instructions Two pages that get a Mac onto a classroom display, wirelessly. NDSU AV Technology · August 2024
AirMedia instructions Crestron AirMedia lets instructors present wirelessly and move around the room, but only after a first-time setup. I split the instructions into two pages: installing once, and presenting every time after that.
Every numbered step sits next to a screenshot of what you should be seeing. They’re in active use.
Open gallery, image 1 of 2 Installation Open gallery, image 2 of 2 Presenting NDSU ENGL 321 · Spring 2023 Space Race: The Game A tabletop game about the Cold War, and the identity to go with it. NDSU ENGL 321 · Spring 2023
Space Race: The Game A tabletop game about the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, made for an NDSU course. I designed it, wrote its rules, and made it real: a printed board, cards, and 3D printed pieces, under a small studio identity I made up, SA Games.
The logo took seven versions. The rocket was rejected because it didn’t scale, and at small sizes you couldn’t tell what it was, so a simple R took its place. The class was online, which meant the game never got a true playtest.
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About I’m a software engineer at Microsoft, working on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, where I own a data entry control built in React, TypeScript, and X++. Before that I spent almost four years keeping North Dakota State University’s classrooms running as an AV technician and then student manager, and I kept building small tools whenever the official ones didn’t fit the job. I studied computer science at NDSU, and I design in Figma before I build. What I care about most is the gap between what someone asks for and what would actually help them.
