I am Principal of Product Design at Michael Graves Architecture & Design. With the firm since 1984, I am the Principal in charge of product, furniture, and graphic design and has played a key role in the development and the success of the firm’s product design practice. My first project for the firm was the now ubiquitous “Whistling Bird Teakettle” for the Italian manufacturer, Alessi. In 1997, under my leadership, the firm began a relationship with Target Stores that led to what many in the critical press have hailed as “the democratization of design”. In 2005, after witnessing firsthand the issues Michael Graves was experiencing with an illness that left him paralyzed, myself and the product design group made a commitment to transform healthcare design services for the aging and physically disabled population, as well as for the people who care for them. Myself and my product design group have brought over 2,000 consumer products to market over the past three decades. I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from Parsons School of Design.