Hey, my name's Devin, but most people call me Dev 👋🏼

I'm a digital product designer, entrepreneur, and vulnerable optimist; exploring interdependence, global citizenship, & being human 💞🌍 🌐 🌄 🏡 ✨

I love being a part of and building thriving teams & delightful experiences!

Some of the main tools I use to facilitate designing brands, businesses, and even my life include:

Notion, Figma, Webflow, Stripe, GSuite, Cron, Arc, & Slack!

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5yrs

Org & Ops Leadership

7yrs

Product & Design

8yrs

Remote First Startups

3yrs

Social Equity

My Core Values
I do my best to live by me personal core values of Presence, Curiosity, & Trust, which help me cultivate Love, Joy, & Acceptance
I see these professionally as the process and journey of Awareness, Accountability, & Real World Value
My Journey
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To explore love, life, and loss, so that each day holds the wonder of the first and the wisdom of the last.
My Current Purpose

To empower people & teams to thrive, so that together we spread love, joy, and acceptance
My Current Mission
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To explore self awareness, interdependence with others, and structures that support global conversation, healing, and alignment
Tools

My Digital Org & Operations Stack

The tools I use and recommend for building a remote first organization

Projects and Ventures

Where I spend my time these days

I balance my time between my personal ventures, coaching, consulting, and community work

Otto

Title: Co-Founder & COO
ROLEs: Head of Product, Head of Creative, HEAD of Operations

We are an international mobility startup. To start we are focused on creating a peer to peer car rental marketplace for Africa. We aim to create user centric mobility experiences that people are eager to tell others about. We do this by creating an empowered and remote-first team that is focused on sustainably building an environment of learning, growing, and equitable distribution of value creation.

OpenLabs

Title: Founder
ROLEs: Design & Product Expert, Branding Expert, Org & Ops Expert, Notion Expert

A place where digital business experts share their knowledge, skills, and experience with world. Come join us! Let's show the world how fun & virtuous work & life can be 🥳 🚀

Action Plan

ROLE: Founding Team

We are a group of people of color and allies who have come together to work to create a unifying tool for finding resources to learn about and fight the racial and social injustice in our world.

Eagle Market Streets

ROLE: Board Member

The Eagle Market Streets Development Corporation mission is to develop people, property, and business and envision economic and social justice for all.

EMSDC serves the Asheville Buncombe community in property development, economic development and access to human services and was founded in 1994 under the leadership of Dr. John H. Grant and the auspice of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

CoThinkk

ROLE: Community Member

CoThinkk is dedicated to social change philanthropy by bringing together community leaders who care about the economic and social well-being of communities of color in Asheville and Western North Carolina.

Matter Product Studio

ROLE: Founding Team | Sr. Design & Product Strategist
*Former Head of Product

Matter is a Build as a Service (BaaS) agency that empowers businesses to build better technology. Matter specializes in custom software development and team building to help you engineer transformative results across your organization.

UncoveredVines

ROLE: Design and Product Lead

We want to change the narrative that large scale wine producers have written about this industry. Through education on old world techniques, and a deep appreciation of sustainability, craftsmanship, and passion, we aim to help people discover a more profound love for wine and to care about where it comes from.

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Startups I've Worked With

Wanting support with your digital startup?

Are you navigating remote team operations, establishing and scaling product & design, building your organizational trust, or implementing a digital operating system like Notion?

Reach out - I'd love to learn about your story and see if there is opportunity and alignment to collaborate!

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Passion & Expertise

Areas of knowledge and continued learning

Systems & Complexity

Using systems to explore  simplicity on the other side of complexity

Collective Leadership

Distribution of power within an organizational structure

Radical Accountability

Acknowledging a reality and growing from our actions  

Design Thinking

Approaches for thoughtful problem solving

Product Mindset

Purpose, audience, strategy, adaptable roadmap

Equity & Access

The state of being just, impartial and fair at a structural and systemic level