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  • Teaching models to reason like we do

    Induction, deduction, and where each one belongs.

    Aug 2026

  • Designers already know how to design evals

    An eval is a definition of quality, not a measurement.

    May 2026

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Cresta
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AWS
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Focals by North smart glasses
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911
SmartCrew
Timeturner
Curatio
Archem
YVR digital twin — a terminal map with live stand and gate markers
Phone-based VR headsets in a two-person interaction study
911 detail
A telepresence robot in conversation at a Microsoft Research event
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Cresta

Lead UX Designer·2025 – Present

Cresta is an AI platform that helps enterprises improve customer conversations. Its AI Agents handle conversations autonomously, and Agent Assist guides human representatives in real time.

I lead design for Cresta Insights, the Conversation Intelligence product that turns unstructured conversations into structured data. It analyzes 100% of conversations, human and AI, so enterprise teams can see why customers reach out, what happens inside each interaction, and which patterns are worth acting on.

Over the past year I helped build the vision for Cresta Insights. It shipped as the next generation of Cresta Insights (opens in a new tab), with the workflows, tools, and agentic products underneath it, and it set the direction for the larger TAM we’re building towards around voice of customer.

Insights overview

Cresta turns customer conversations into something a company can act on. Every call, chat, email, screen recording, and survey lands in our unstructured data layer through connectors, service integrations, or a direct pull from a customer’s database. From there it moves through the Conversational Intelligence Engine, which reads each conversation and extracts the meaningful entities and the parts that can be measured. Our AI-native products sit on top of that engine, each drawing on different pieces of it:

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