icebreaker

who was a pivotal person that changed the trajectory of your professional career?

for me it was my design mentor, David T, in boulder, who ultimately got me into google in SF via referral

who's your David T?

there is no /icebreaker without meeting him at my internship 🥲

CEO at Google • co-founder & rectangle mover at /icebreaker • icbk.me/j4ck.fc • /swagcaster • DJ sixsix

I’ve been fortunate enough to have several along the way. 

Chris the design agency CEO who let me sit in on client meetings with him as in intern. 

Piper who gave me a shot at designing Nike apps in my first year of work. 

More recently, Michael B who trusted me to take on his legacy and run with it in new ways. 

Side note:
Where in Boulder were you working? I was born and raised in Boulder, did my design grad school in Boulder. 

Curious if David T might be a mutual connection.

FID 1580 | dad. exec director @ SkillsEngine. product. design. art. code. philosophy. technology. economics. systems.

Small world, my sister lives in Lakewood. 

We probably crossed paths in Boulder. I don’t know any of the mShopper folks but I was at Mondo Robot while doing my grad school at Boulder Digital Works (now CMCI). I took off to SF for AKQA in 2011. 

I also spent some time as a creative consultant at Google later in my career — so lots of Google, design, Boulder people in my network. I’m sure there’s overlap in there somewhere lol.

lol no way! i grew up in lakewood!

i was at a little startup called mShopper in ~2011 where i met DT