RegulatedHigh-stakesLegacy-tangledAI-augmented
Eighteen years designing for people with too much on their shoulders and no room to get it wrong. Open it, do the job, trust it’s done, move on.
RegulatedHigh-stakesLegacy-tangledAI-augmented
Eighteen years designing for people with too much on their shoulders and no room to get it wrong. Open it, do the job, trust it’s done, move on.
Work
What I've shipped
The projects I'd want to walk you through.
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$60K
Healthcare
Saved per
reporting cycle
Self-serve reporting let a statewide health agency's specialists handle routine reports themselves, cutting recurring dev work 40%.
8 min2 min
Aviation
Search-to-valuation time
Across 12 long-term users
Redesigned the aviation industry's longtime pricing reference through moderated research with 12 long-term users. Unified search and browse. Built comparison from scratch. Search-to-valuation dropped from eight minutes to two.
68%
Design System
Adoption rate
Standardized charts, forms, and core SaaS components into a Figma-to-React system for the Data Viz products.
what people say
What it's like towork with me
What Directors, VPs, and Heads of Design said after shipping with me.
Over a span of two years, we achieved a remarkable 40% increase in team productivity while simultaneously elevating the standard of UX and UI quality.
Over a span of two years, we achieved a remarkable 40% increase in team productivity while simultaneously elevating the standard of UX and UI quality.
Vladimir Hadjioglo, Director Of Product Design, CrunchyrollMarcel is detail-oriented, thorough, and reliable. His dedication to high-quality work was invaluable in the team delivering high-quality work and executing on time.
Brian Johnson, Senior Product Design Director, CrunchyrollMarcel's structured approach and organizational genius are unparalleled, allowing him to consolidate complex projects and streamline workflows under one cohesive umbrella.
Ramona Ziemann, Head of Design, EndavaMarcel thoroughly customized each practice which aligned dependency mapping with engineering, delivered transparency, enabled tradeoff discussions, and ultimately optimized throughput.
Alice Jordan, VP. Technical Program Management, CrunchyrollMarcel provides clear and actionable direction not only to his team but also to stakeholders, ensuring that everyone is aligned and working towards a common goal.
George Railean, Co-Founder, Fuselab Creative AgencyHe wants to produce work that both he and his clients are happy with, even if it means working under tight deadlines.
Aryk Grosz, Co-Founder, Mixbook
After hours
Aboutme
From Moldova to Seattle, I've spent eighteen years designing across startups, agencies, and enterprise teams.
I'm drawn to the work most teams route around: regulated, high-stakes, legacy-tangled systems where clarity is expensive and mistakes travel far.
After hours, I follow the same thread through music, anime, games, cars, comics, and smart-home tinkering: worlds with rhythm, machinery, lore, and a lot of tiny decisions.
