Ditching Spreadsheets
How can we make it easy for catering partners to understand the financial health of their business?
Exposing Account Settings
How can we give catering partners more account control and reduce the burden to our customer service team?
What it's like to work with Dave
Dave's remarkable talent for communicating his ideas clearly and concisely along with a willingness to listen and compromise fosters an efficient and collaborative environment. This leads to better design-engineering integration, higher quality outcomes, overall scope reduction on projects and an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust within teams.
His unique product and system design perspectives as well as his ability to synthesize complex ideas into cohesive and intuitive systems has elevated my own approach to UI development, empowering me and other engineers to incorporate high quality UX thinking into our own work.
I highly recommend Dave for any organization that could use a collaborative, high quality design leader whose impact is multiplied by the ability to elevate those around him
Dave is an exceptional product designer and manager with a deep understanding of design systems and platform thinking. He has a proven track record of leading teams to create high-quality, user-centered designs that meet the needs of both users and the business. He is analytical, highly communicative, and strategic while remaining flexible in the face of complex, ambiguous problems. Any team would be lucky to have him!
Dave has so many of the best qualities you look for in a designer. He's patient and insightful: he always helps other designers reach smart solutions by asking the right questions. He's incredibly skilled at designing and considering systems and patterns: he was a critical contributor to and evangelist for ezCater's UX design system. Lastly, he's empathetic: he cares deeply about the user, but also, his teammates. Working alongside Dave allowed me to grow as a designer, and I'd be grateful to get the chance to work with him again.
When I think about Dave, the first thing that comes to mind is how focused he was on making those around him better. That shone through in the feedback he received from his peers, who said things about him like...“I find his design feedback some of the most valuable on our team" and "he's always ensuring our work provides value.”
As a design leader, I especially appreciated that he did so without sacrificing quality or slowing the team down..."He has a vision on which direction the product should go and a design standard that he passionately upholds, (AND) he helps us move fast.” That those comments came not just from me, but from peers and partners is especially impressive.
If you're looking for a talented, technical, systems-thinking, collaborative but (quietly) passionate leader on your team, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone better than Dave.
I can enthusiastically recommend Dave without any hesitation. He shows the same character in his work that he shows as a colleague and friend — he is thoughtful, collaborative, open to feedback, pragmatic, caring, responsible, and a great teammate. Not to mention his design chops are top-tier! (I am in awe every time I see Dave fly around Figma to prototype designs). Dave would be a strong asset and a positive influence to any team he works with.
Dave is an exceptional designer and consistently drives product work forward with intention. He helped create a positive and proactive culture of design feedback at ezCater that helped the team stay aligned and level-up in their work. He has a keen and powerful eye for detail and is one of the kindest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.
