Hi! 👋 I’m Zach, I help teams unlock growth and innovation through design driven strategy.

I run workshops, lead sprints, and design strategy to help your team unlock what’s next. Whether you’re building something new, growing what you’ve built, or aligning it with your customers, design + strategy brings the clarity you need to get unstuck.

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🛠️ Get confident alignment, make smarter decisions, test ideas fast.

I help teams get confident about what to build. Whether it’s aligning around a core problem, strategy planning, or rapid prototyping, I guide structured sessions that end in clear decisions and tested ideas, not just sticky notes.

🧠 Strategy & Facilitation

Align teams, clarify problems, and guide decisions fast through design sprints, strategy workshops, and problem framing sessions.

🔎 Design Research

Gather the insights needed to make smarter decisions through discovery research, prototype testing, and user interviews.

🧪 Prototype Design

Turn ideas into experiments that generate real learning through low and mid fidelity prototypes and other testable concepts.

🎒 Background

I help teams make sense of complexity and move forward with clarity. With over a decade of experience spanning UX, product, service, and brand design, I bring a human-centered lens and a bias toward action to every project.

💼 Experience

Senior Design Strategist @ Scorpion (2019 - Present)
Interim Strategy Director @ Scorpion (2024)
Design Director @ Intersect GMD (2022-2023)
Design Strategy Director @ Toi (2017 - 2019)
Designer & Strategist @ ActiveColor (2015-2017)

🎓 Education & Certifications

MDI Candidate (CSUN)
BA Art & Design (CSUCI)

Design Led Strategy (University of Sydney)
Service Design Fundamentals (HCC Network)
Design Sprint Mastery (AJ & Smart)
Human Centered Service Design (IDEO U)
Integrated Service Experiences (IDF)
UX Management (Nielsen Norman)
UX Research (Nielsen Norman)
Design Thinking (IBM)

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