About Me

I’ve spent my career living by the mantra that “Every Experience Matters”. From the empathy sparked during deep-dive user research sessions to the collective pride of my teams shipping solutions they didn’t think were possible, it all counts.

Leadership Philosophies

The Insight to Lead, the Energy to Innovate

Three decades of experience has given me a sharp, intuitive understanding of complex systems. I stay ahead of standard playbooks by operating right where experience and innovation connect. My track record reflects that, moving from pioneering early design systems to seamlessly integrating modern AI workflows.

Leadership Philosophies

Undeniable Value

I focus on creating the frameworks and processes that empower teams to be "productivity machines," while ensuring the work’s soul and the essence of the craft remain at the center.

My goal is to maximize efficiency so we can focus on what truly matters: delivering amazing products that solve real customer problems, fostering a culture where designers feel immense pride in their work, and demonstrating the undeniable value that design brings to an organization.

Leadership Philosophies

Leadership Through Collaboration and Alignment

As can be seen in my Leadership page, my style is built on a foundation of radical inclusion and airtight communication. I’ve learned that the fastest way to build the right product is through effective user research and shared alignment between design, product, and engineering.  

Why I do this?

Passion

Passion is what I feel when we love what we are creating.

Pride

Pride is what I feel when our customers thrive because of what we built.

Satisfaction

Satisfaction is what I feel when we have made a difference.

“My influence is measured by the results we deliver, the success of our customers, and the growth and pride of the teams I have built.”

Endorsements

What others say

Venkat Krishnamurthy

VP Product at OmniSci

I've had the pleasure of working with and knowing Christian as a product designer, manager, and person over the last couple of years at MapD/OmniSci, where he navigated all the trials and pressures of a startup to give the product its identity today. He joined us and helped set the foundation for our design team, by investing his time not just in product design but the design process itself.

He is not only a wonderful designer with an eye for detail and user experience but one of the best people managers I have ever worked with, bringing a great deal of empathy and understanding to this role to helping his team succeed. Above all, he is the very definition of a team player, who always values the team more than his own interests. I recommend him very highly

Mark Hallett

Senior Product Design Manager at Five9

I had the absolute pleasure of working under Christian's leadership for three years, and I can confidently say he is one of the best directors I've ever had. Christian is the type of leader who genuinely invests in his team's success, and I'm a better designer today because of his mentorship.

 What always stood out to me was Christian's selfless approach. He created a fantastic culture of growth, even setting up weekly knowledge-sharing sessions where we could all learn from each other. He has this incredible ability to fully listen to you before sharing his thoughts—a truly rare and valuable trait that made me feel genuinely heard and respected.

Christian's expertise in UX and Product Design is truly vast. He doesn't just look for the easiest solution; he constantly challenged us to question if our designs made sense for the long run. When we were given a problem, he'd always push us to ask "why" so we could get to the root of the user's needs and solve the right problem. He encouraged us to iterate continually until we found the best possible solution, rather than settling for something mediocre. I can't count the number of times he would drop what he was doing to have a one-on-one design session with me, helping us build a better solution together. He also deeply valued cross-functional collaboration, ensuring we included unique perspectives from others in the organization to create stronger, more thoughtful designs. 

Beyond his professional skills, Christian is simply one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. He genuinely wants to know how you're doing and who you are as a person. He took the time to understand my passions and interests so he could help me move in a direction that aligned with my career goals. He helped me grow as a designer and a person, and I can't recommend him highly enough. Any team would be incredibly lucky to have him.

Christophe Viau

Design Technologist at OmniSci

I'm grateful that I got to work as a Design Technologist with Christian as my Director of Design and UX at OmniSci. His design thinking approach and his deep understanding of the whole pipeline, tools and best practices, helped me deliver my best work. IMO that's how you recognize a good manager, in the way people around him feel challenged and empowered. He brings a lot of creativity to a team. I like how he uncovers our blind spots and biases, turning that knowledge into new design paths and alternative solutions.

On top of a solid experience in UX, graphical design and product design, Christian has some rare management skills, always caring and taking the time for his team and beyond. One of his greatest qualities is the humility he uses as an asset to constantly improve. He added a solid process and a user-centric approach to our production. That's how I learned how much caring for users is about listening, about understanding what is behind what people are saying to find their actual needs. I learned a lot, but more importantly, I have a direction and a good model I can follow to continue improving my skills for the rest of my career thanks to his great leadership.

Duncan Lane

UX Product Designer at OmniSci

I had the pleasure and privilege of working under Christian’s great leadership. From the start not only did he recognized my potential, but he welcomed it and took actions to develop and mentor me to become the designer I am today. 

Being a manager and also a fantastic designer, Christian has a unique eye and conceptual vision to lead the team to take any project from its raw form to successful reality, while paying close attention to our users and supporting their needs while providing them with a great experience.

Christian has a gift for connecting with people, building great relationships and collaborating effectively with entire teams to successfully deliver on our mission.

I would highly recommend him to any organization as he would be a valuable asset bringing creative outlook, passion, collaboration and positive attitude to any environment.

JP Harvey

Director of Cloud Operations and IT Security at OmniSci

Christian is a hard worker with a passion for high standards in user experience and design, combined with a deep knowledge of how to make the complex simple. His role at OmniSci saw him face an ever-changing environment with pressures from multiple directions, and he handled it with aplomb.

Diana Tran

UX Design Lead at IBM

Christian was a devoted design lead and mentor at IBM. He has a great talent for building flexible interfaces to display complex data, and a passion to explore new interactions and visualizations.

He built strong relationships with customers of IBM products and continuously delivered results that satisfied the requests of users.

Christian showed genuine interest in teaching me about analytics and was devoted to developing my professional experience. It was a pleasure to work with Christian at IBM.

Siddhant Shah

Lead User Experience Designer at Apttus

Christian is a passionate designer who empathizes with users, creating excellent user experiences for complex enterprise applications.

I had the pleasure of working with Christian for over a year at Apttus where he led multiple design projects working closely with product managers, engineers, and fellow designers. In one of the crucial projects recently at Apttus, Christian generated a great amount of interest from executives, engineers, sales and marketing groups to participate and collaborate in the design thinking sessions with his unique design methodology and process. This was a well-received and much-needed interest from outside the UX team positively affecting the design team. Christian is a great listener, provides detailed feedback. I have learned fun design techniques and unique design processes from Christian that I hope to implement in my design process as well. Christian has a great sense of humor it has always been fun to work with him. I highly recommend Christian, as a design leader who can bring in, a great deal of value to any organization he is part of.

Dave Sundrum

Senior Product Designer at Apttus

Christian is a highly skilled UX professional. He has great skills at taking complex scenarios and designing very efficient and beautiful interfaces and interactions. He's very generous and passionate about our craft and excels as a mentor for his colleagues. He has great insight into UX design best practices and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him. I highly recommend him to anyone looking for a solid and superb UX designer.

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