It was a real opportunity and pleasure to work alongside Rick during the year we were together at CBRE. Rick has a deep care for finding scalable solutions and often meticulously mapped out different design options to better understand its impact on our users and our product. His drive to do what is best by the user while also aligning requirements across business, product, and engineering ensured any project that he was assigned was able to be delivered on time and to the satisfaction of multiple internal business units.

During his time at CBRE, Rick was a key contributor to the standardization of our design process. Rick assisted with the creation of our task management system. In addition, he also assisted with the creation our design project evaluation. Each of these has allowed our designers across different projects to align on a similar process. This alignment ensures a consistent data gathering and reporting methodology for design leadership to showcase our impact across the organization.

Rick was also a key contributor to our design pattern libraries. Helping to establish the initial patterns we used in our facility management software to then contributing to the wider GWS pattern library system, Rick would audit and evaluate pattern usage before putting forth a recommendation for consolidation. This allowed our team to align towards common standards that then drove consistency and uniformity across our product.

Any team that hires Rick will be gaining a true design leader. He is able to mentor and grow other designers on the team while also engaging and teaching other stakeholders about the work of UX and design. Any team that has Rick will see just how lucky we were to have him.

I have had the pleasure of working with Rick on the UX team at CBRE for the past couple of years.

Rick is an incredibly smart and talented designer and systems thinker. Rick effortlessly connects the dots between user needs, business requirements, and product constraints in complex problem spaces as an integral part of his design process. As a UX researcher, I was extremely impressed with speed and skill in which Rick was able to quickly iterate designs based on research findings.

Rick also exemplified strong leadership skills, leading the design team on one of the most complex enterprise products in our product suite, as well as on the design ops team. Rick constantly went above and beyond to improve the way in which our team operated, making us more efficient as a team. Most importantly, Rick was always kind and respectful with everyone he worked with, and always approached his work with integrity.

Rick would be an incredible asset to any UX team!