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Cupertino, California, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Drove business results across the entire company by inspiring and moving Intuit's culture, organization and products towards systemic change via innovative human-centered approaches and cross-functional creative problem solving practices. ACHIEVEMENTS — Led strategic initiatives that connected all products and services— Grew & developed a community of 300+ Designers, Researchers and Writers— Identified strategic culture gaps and led change management programs to fill them — Attracted, hired and grew great design talent across the entire company

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Led a major transformation in the company's vision and product offering by introducing creative problem solving and human-centered approaches into the product life cycle. ACHIEVEMENTS— Built, grew and operationalized a highly qualified User Experience and Research team from the ground up — Drove innovation and human-centered approaches which inspired the company's staff to transform the company from an online chat platform to a content curation platform — Conceptualized and designed a new product line that brought the company multiple revenue opportunities and the ultimate acquisition by Google

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for eBay's end-to-end User Experience and spearheading the company’s first cross-functional creative problem solving innovation program. ACHIEVEMENTS— Architected and operationalized eBay's first User Centered approach — Directed two holistic redesigns of eBay.com— Reimagined eBay Motor's business cross-functionally via user-centered methods — Led eBay's first Design System and design pattern library with reusable code components— Provided daily design mentorship for 200+ UX Designers, Researchers and Writers — Led eBay’s first cross-functional Product Innovation program

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Participated actively as a Principal UX Designer in a cross-functional incubation effort to envision, design and deliver Yahoo!'s first social media product (Y! 360). This product was aimed as a direct response to Facebook's growing popularity and aimed at leveraging Y!'s worldwide user community and most popular services (Groups, Music, Local, News, Finance).

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

— Created innovation practices and design standards across key Y! Search and Marketplace properties (Search, Shopping, Autos, Local, and Maps)— Managed and mentored a team of 8 Visual Designers and provided outstanding vision and creative direction in a cross-functional team of over 40 team members

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

— Led the experience design of core network infrastructure services (accounts, purchase and billing)— Led the experience design of the Online Access suite of products (Dial and DSL) — Drove holistic network audits and guidelines to mitigate design inconsistencies across the different vertical products

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

— Led the design and internationalization of all Yahoo! products in Europe and Latin America — Imparted internationalization design workshops in Europe, Latin America and the US

San Jose, California, Us

— Responsible for the online and offline design of the newspaper's Spanish publication Nuevo Mundo— Provided quality assurance from desktop publishing through press runs and web publishing — Interfaced daily with the newspaper’s Chief Editor, Staff Writers, Photographers, Pre-Press Operators, and Web Producers— Managed, trained and mentored a team of 4 Graphic Designers and a Production Artist.

San Jose, California, Us

— Created design solutions for Advertising, Marketing, and Brand campaigns— Interfaced daily with Sales, Marketing, Brand and Editorial staff