The first credit-building insurance company. We are a mission-driven company that empowers the Hispanic, immigrant and underbanked communities to find, get and keep the insurance and financial services they need. Our mission is to level the playing field by giving everyone a fair start and the opportunity to build wealth.

Design consultant for various start-ups during the yearsServices offered: Product Strategy, User Experience and Product Design

Leading a design team to build a new financial advisor application from concept to deployment and advocating for good design across the company.Main responsibilities and achievements: • Established Lean UX processes• Built a highly-collaborative environment involving designers, engineers, product managers, user researchers and investment researchers• Developed a 2 week cadence to design, prototype and test new features and concepts• Mentoring and leading senior designers

Leading the design team for Spark, the new Cisco Cloud Collaboration Product.Main responsibilities: • Defining the overall Cisco Spark user experience• Overseeing the design of client apps for mobile (iOS, Android and Windows Phones), desktop (Mac and Windows), web and tele-presence units• Managing the 12 members of the design team

Design Lead of the Mobile & Services UX Lab of Samsung Research America. The lab mandate was to design the future smartphone and tablet user experience for the next 1 to 3 years.Main responsibilities and achievements: • Built a multi-disciplinary design team from one person to 20 employees in 2 years• Defined and established design methodologies, processes and standards• Utilize different design approaches depending on different needs and schedules• Hands-on management of projects focusing on contextual aware devices, social and media, from definition/concept to prototype stage• Co-invented (Patent: US 20140101523 A1) Samsung Magazine UI which was announced as one of the new main features of the Galaxy S4 at its New York global launch in April 2013• Utilize design as a strategic tool to drive requirements and direction; evangelized product planner in headquarters on adopting it as a methodology to build roadmaps• Present project prototypes to senior executives in headquarters to sell ideas and push concepts to products• Transfer prototypes and concepts to headquarters’ product and engineering teams for productization

Led the Interaction Design Practice for the Media Tiger Team, a group of experts, highly specialized in different design disciplines, meant to support all Yahoo! Media Properties and be flexibly staffed to work on core products.Main projects:• Yahoo! Media Properties integration with Yahoo! Profiles• Yahoo! Autos Redesign • Yahoo! Sports Header and Navigation System Redesign• Patterns Development for all Yahoo! Properties

Worked in various offices around the world where involved, as individual contributor and manager, in the design and development of products for the following main clients:• Rogers Centre (Toronto, Canada)• Rogers (Toronto, Canada)• RBC Insurance (Toronto, Canada)• Banca del Gottardo (Lugano, Switzerland)• Vodafone (London, UK) • BP (London, UK)• Banca Intesa Online Services (Milano, Italy)• Motorola (Chicago IL, USA)• Banca Primavera (Milano, Italy)• Ferrari (Maranello, Italy)• Dalmine Energie (Milano and Dalmine, Italy)

Assistant Professor at Technology and Prototype Experimentation Lab