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- Drove overall product vision and experience for the Expedia hotelier suite of tools.- Led a product design team to develop hotelier-facing products for over 150,000 hotel partners. - Utilized user data, competitive market research and market trends to drive product roadmap.- Strategically integrated new technology to deliver a responsive and mobile-first approach to all product initiatives.- Facilitated collaboration within the team and across teams to garner support for initiatives and facilitate cross-functional team decisions.

- Served as a UX Manager focused on product strategy and roadmap. Led a team of designers, researchers and developers delivering projects across multi-national and domestic companies including Lucent, Microsoft, Yahoo! and more.- Continued to be accountable and additionally performed hands-on work as an individual contributor. Projects included building a consumer-facing support site for Microsoft CSS- Provided user-centered design expertise and consultancy to business development teams in China, US, UK, Hong Kong, and APAC regions- Responsible for company business strategy of building UX as a core differentiator against outsourcing competitors- Accountable for RMB 10 million P&L (~$1.5 m)

- Served as lead UX designer focused on interaction design and strategy while managing a team of 8 designers- Provided user-centered design expertise and support to business development teams across the world. Ascertained clients’ needs and vision, offering counsel on effective web and UX design solutions- Responsible for defining the creative direction of each project’s look and feel and online presence. Drove projects from start to finish, which included: conceptualization, design, production, project management, development and implementation. Lead the design and UX for a $2 million project with SmarterFaster, Inc. - Successfully collaborated with in-house design and development teams on a wide variety of projects for clients including Microsoft, Boeing, Yahoo!, Tencent QQ and China UnionPay

- Served as UX designer with the Commerce Transaction Platform (CTP) team to create an end-facing consumer site that handles over 1 million page views per month. Responsible for defining the user experience of several complex consumer scenarios including billing management and purchasing.- Provided user-centered expertise and support to development teams including user research, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. Successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams in Shanghai and Redmond to deliver a high quality product and on-time release

• Conducted scientific research studies on the molecular development of sea squirts resulting in a publication in the journal of Evolution and Development