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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Guided a team of 12 content, service, and product designers on a mission to scale the impact of design on Atlassian products via a platform approach. Our focus areas, including the Web Design System, Templates & Authoring, Internal Tools, Notifications and Messaging, Pricing, Sign-up, and Provisioning, have left a lasting mark on the company's growth.Led the creation of Atlassian's strategic vision for web properties, defining how Atlassian could scale to meet the growing company's needs. This work gained alignment within the C-Suite, leading to the first significant redesign of Atlassian.com and back-of-house authoring experiences in 7 yrs.Collaborated regularly across Brand, Commerce, Growth, Identity, Legal, Marketing, Marketplace and Product teams.Led week-long design sprints that created prototypes resulting in cross functional alignment on 6 month visions for Sign Up, Purchase Experience and Industry Solutions.Led weekly design reviews, ensuring our work focused on addressing both business goals and customer needs.Helped the next generation of designers and design leaders at Atlassian by contributing to the North American intern and grad program and overseeing recruitment, training, and mentorship initiatives.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Responsible for core platform design, scaling our design system, and accessibility across web properties.Facilitated a unified approach to the sign-up experience, breaking down silos by forming a team from both platform and product who worked together to create a more seamless end-to-end experience for our customers.Mentored design leads and new managers, helping the next generation of Atlassian Design leadership.Created a training program for Atlassian recruiters to help identify great design candidates. Trained the recruiting team via online sessions and provided reference documentation.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Grew and led a team of twelve, responsible for industry solutions as well as the design system for Atlassian web properties.

San Mateo, California, Us

Led a team of product designers responsible for core experience for the launch of the PS5, including Search, Notifications and Messaging, Voice Assistant and button mapping, as well as PlayStations Design System.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Responsible for connected experiences across Autodesk’s portfolio of products, design operations, and interface guidelines. Used design thinking to help change how teams worked together. Designed, documented, and evangelized the UX architecture of A360 (a cloud-based project collaboration platform for design and engineering) while helping to maintain alignment between the US, India, Singapore, and Israeli user experience teams.Presented "Why a Knowledge of Business Fundamentals is Important for Designers" at the 2017 X-Summit.Seconded to the Autodesk Foundation as one of seven employees to work with Build Change-Nepal and Team4tech towards the goal of helping to improve this process of retrofitting homes damaged in the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Hired and led a team of high performing designers and researchers in support of Adobe.com. Led user research for Adobe.com, establishing the team’s first formative research process. Built consensus, documented and evangelized the component architecture and guidelines for what would be the first version of Adobe’s Creative Cloud mobile offerings (The creation of which resulted in greater cohesion across distributed design teams and quicker time to market).

Helped run a boutique agency which provided research, design, product management and strategy services to clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small "dot coms".

Oakland, California, Us

Hired the company’s first team of user researchers, integrating a research-based approach to design into the product life cycle, including formative, evaluative, and analytic data.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Pioneered an agile/formative research methodology that helped build consensus with key stakeholders and established the roadmap for products used by millions every day including: Acrobat, Acrobat Connect (Breeze), Contribute, Flash Mobile solutions and Flash Player.Tools used included: ethnographic research, contextual inquiries, usability testing (standard, remote and low fidelity/rapid testing) creation of personas and expert analysis of designs.

Bs, Industrial Engineering

Credential Of Readiness (Core)

Certificate, Disruptive Strategy With Clayton Christensen

Completed Coursework, Human Factors Graduate Program

Mechanical Engineering