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Designing AI-native products with the Live Learn Innovate Foundation.
I design and build AI-native products at the intersection of systems, data, and user. Started in voice and natural-language systems, scaled into UX and product leadership, and now I'm back to hands-on building — prototyping directly in code with AI as a design and development partner.
Translating emerging AI capabilities into intuitive workflows — designing systems that guide, adapt, and collaborate with users rather than just respond to them.
Building interactive, production-connected experiences directly in code. The 'design file' is the codebase, and the AI is a collaborator inside it.
Designing systems, not screens. Connecting user actions, data, and AI-driven insights across complex, multi-surface platforms.
Designing for systems that don't just respond but reason, decide, and act — choreographing the dance between human intent and autonomous behavior.
Translating ambiguity into clear, shippable product experiences. Working cross-functionally across product, engineering, and business — leading platforms that have served tens of millions of users.
Live Learn Innovate Foundation
Consolidating health, fitness, nutrition, wellbeing, environment, and lifestyle data — today scattered across dozens of disconnected apps — into a single AI-ready platform that surfaces the correlations and insights between them.
Criminal defense law firms
An AI case-intelligence platform for criminal defense — built from concept around a 'Case Twin' model that turns fragmented intake, evidence, jurisdiction, and procedural posture into a living, reviewable workflow with attorney oversight at every step.
AI home assistant
Took an AI home-assistant from a Lovable-generated MVP to a production-ready product system — bridging design, engineering, AI workflows, and integrations end-to-end.
Various Stock Issuers
A portal that enables issuers to monitor activity within their share register, submit work items, and track status — with seamless SSO into other Computershare client websites.
Walmart & Amazon
iOS and Android apps for Walmart Associate Stock and Amazon DSPP — letting employees access plan shares, sell shares, and view tax documents. Walmart's app passed 100k Google Play downloads.
NCL · Personal project
An in-cabin Alexa-powered cruise reservation and information system. Each cabin's Echo Show would let guests use voice or touch to book dining, activities, and excursions.
Various Stock and Plan Issuers
Mobile-optimized workflows triggered by SMS that let shareholders complete tasks (check replacement, banking updates, document access) without logging into the full Investor Center.
Various Employee Plan Issuers
Employee Share Plan portal where employees can access holdings, view current value, download forms, change contributions, and perform plan transactions.
Various DSPP Issuers
Modernization and rebranding of the Buy Stock Direct website. Incorporating client logos increased engagement, reduced site drop-offs, and lifted monthly DSPP sign-ups by 10%.
Computershare
Business Intelligence proof-of-concept exploring data extraction, warehousing, and visualization in MS Power BI to surface revenue opportunities and operational efficiencies.
"Jose Rego, Manager User Experience (UX) in Jersey City has seen the importance of User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) within Computershare. Through his skills and reputation he has become a member of the global interface council and is now involved in providing global feedback in addition to managing his North American responsibilities. He is effectively forming a UI/UX group of excellence."
I design and build AI-native products at the intersection of systems, data, and user. Today that work runs through the Live Learn Innovate Foundation, CrimCaseAI, and Todaiyo — applying the craft I've spent the last 25 years honing to missions where the next user interaction is half UI, half model.
I started in voice and natural-language systems — an early foundation in designing how humans interact with intelligent machines. Over time I scaled that into UX and product leadership, including UX for a $1.2B business unit administering 75M+ shareholder records a year.
More recently I've moved back to hands-on building. I prototype directly in code with AI-assisted environments — Claude Code, Lovable, Bolt — and I've helped teams shift out of traditional design tools and into code-first workflows. Faster iteration, tighter collaboration with engineering, and more meaningful validation earlier in the product lifecycle.
I began my career as a developer, spending the first 10 years creating Voice User Interface (VUI) applications. Today, I leverage that experience to bridge the gap between design and development.
I'm passionate about design and committed to lifelong learning. Professionally, I have extensive experience designing user interfaces across customer channels.
I lead design teams that include VUI and UI/UX designers, researchers, BAs, and front-end developers. With years of hands-on experience in both design and development, I lead with empathy and understanding.
I began as a consultant for Chubb, placed at FCTC in Jersey City, NJ. At Computershare, I've consulted extensively across business lines without dedicated UX departments.
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