Currently managing a team of Product Analysts, using data to make informed design recommendations.

Experience

Apple, Product Design Manager, Vision Products Group, 2023 – Present
Apple,
Product Designer, Vision Products Group, 2018 – 2023

First employee in new role, blending 3D design, data science, and human factors to provide design recommendations to ID Design Studio and Product Design teams.

Digital Toolbox, Co-Founder & Director
2009 – 2017

Started as an open-source web resource for architects working with digital tools; evolved into a 3D design consultancy for art, architecture, and product design.

Jason Krugman Studio — Product Designer
2013 – 2017

Co-launched Splyt Light, a consumer lighting product. Led 3D design and fabrication for large-scale public sculpture “Rhythm and Form” in Bethesda, MD.

Alexis Bittar — CAD Designer
2013 – 2017

Jewelry design and surface modeling from hand sketch through production casting.

Plastarc — Spatial Interaction Designer
2014 – 2016

Visualized qualitative and quantitative spatial data; conducted workplace anthropology interviews and delivered design recommendations for enterprise clients.

Education

Master of Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University 2017 – 2018

Fulbright Research Grant, CITA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen 2015 – 2016

Bachelor of Architecture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 2007 – 2012

Selected Publications

Adaptive Robotic Fabrication for Conditions of Material Inconsistency, FABRICATE 2016. Nicholas, Zwierzycki, Nørgaard, Leinweber, Stasiuk, Hutchinson, Thomsen - 2016

Adaptive Meshing for Bi-Directional Information Flows, Advances in Architectural Geometry. Nicholas, Zwierzycki, Stasiuk, Nørgaard, Leinweber, Thomsen - 2016

Filigree Robotics, ACADIA 2016 — CITA, KADK Copenhagen. Tamke, Nørgaard, Leinweber, Tvede - 2016

Working without Borders: Flexible Workplace in an International Peacekeeping Organization, EDRA CORE 2015. Marsh, Erickson, Hackel, Leinweber - 2015

Patents

Fit detection for head-mountable devices, US-12547007-B2 - with Apple, 2026

Head-Mountable Device with Guidance Features, US-20250271672-A1 - with Apple, 2025

Support for head-mountable device, US-12393038-B2 - with Apple, 2025

Multiple Light Bulb Socket Adapter, US 29561973 — with Jason Krugman, 2016

Tools & Skills

  • Sketching, Prototyping
  • User Research, Interviewing
  • Concept Generation

3D Data

  • Data Science, focused on 3D geometry
  • Computational geometry
  • Algorithmic thinking
  • AI/ML, early adopter of LLMs in practice
  • Rhino, Grasshopper

Communication

  • Exec communication
  • Cross-functional wrangling
  • Translating across HW/SW, Design and Engineering
  • Fluent Spanish, casual Danish