My strengths include hands-on end-to-end product design execution, as well as design leadership and team management. I have worked as the sole designer at seed-funded startups, and have helped grow and manage design organizations of up to 20 team members.
Throughout my career, I have been drawn towards ideas that inspire. A new take on an old industry, a novel idea in an emerging market. A few early-stage opportunities have have led to a somewhat turbulent last few years - but I wouldn't change a minute of it.
I am currently looking for a role where I can contribute to the design vision, help grow and motivate design teams, and help directly shape the future of a product. I want to build something that lasts - something that thrives.
Specialties:
design thinking
experience design
business case development
creative direction
content strategy
user research and usability testing
mobile patterns and design
cross-platform unified style guides
pattern libraries
thought leadership
product strategy
I motivate design teams,
and thrive in environments where the user is first and passion drives execution.
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As UX lead for three product teams, helped inspire and build (hire/manage) visual and interaction designers. Keeper of brand, pattern, and interaction uniformity across BitTorrent Bundle web and mobile products. Contributed to product strategy and vision with the leadership team. Interaction designer on core Bundle product suite. Fostered design awareness across the organization.
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Design director for small team of visual designers and front-end engineers. Contributed as an interaction design lead. Redesigned Android and IOS apps from nearly the ground up, led the management team through branding/strategy exercises, completed a brand overhaul, built internal tools for 3D modeling productivity, and helped set product roadmap and vision. Productivity tools and revised app flows led to massive revenue growth and user acquisition.
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Led small team of internal and remote designers (hiring/management) as Director of Design. Provided wireframes for new features and products. Created processes for integrating design into the established agile development. Managed and gave creative direction to an outside agency tasked with a complete rebrand. Established a uniform product style-guide, complete with interactions and semantic markup.
Implemented a complete product and brand relaunch for the 'Kayak of Airbnb', resulting in doubled membership, press and media attention, and a massively growing revenue stream. Provided product strategy, visual design, interaction design, and front-end development.
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Worked with the Sidecar executive team to build a ride analytics tool. This long-standing javascript app provided real-time business analytics information, and served as a foundation to their customer experience team.