Hi, I’m mare.

I do things and make stuff in NYC. All content on this site was written by me, not AI; all em dashes are my own.

For anyone checking on the progress of this site regularly, I plan to finish the design tomorrow 🫡. If I don’t get distracted 😌.

Doing

Currently fractional design leadership at Ringlet & Renderlet; world’s foremost fractional design leader at startups with names ending in "-let”.
OOUX consultant, strategist, and mentor. Masterclass certified. Facilitating workshops and mentoring the next waves of OOUX practitioners.
Certified SMART Recovery facilitator, sharing sobriety resources and offering sobriety coaching.
Executive coaching and running workshops through Very Human Humans.
Volunteering with Mouse and Terra NYC STEM Fair, working with high school students exploring STEM.
Studying to become a NASM certified personal trainer; completing yoga teacher training in Q2 2026.
Also writing, reading, doing karaoke, lifting, and shuffling.

Done

Projects I’ve worked on: case studies coming soon 😉.
Engineering Leadership at Adobe, Viacom (now Paramount), and various startups
Speaker at tech conferences and podcasts
- Øredev in Malmö, Sweden: Gatekeepers to Gardeners: Design Systems for Every Developer, 2022
- PlatformCon22: Herding cats: corralling platform development, 2022
- Deploy Friday: E47: Minimizing risks in code deployment, 2022
- Landing Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, 2019
- Adobe Tech Summit in San Francisco, 2019
- CSS Conf in New Orleans, 2017

Find me online

Find me in person

I go to Olive Tree Writing Club almost every session and I am hosting this week, Dec 7th.
Cowork with me during the week in Brooklyn.