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Seattle, Washington, Us

Building out an amazing design system with excellent accessibility.

Advancing the capabilities for a multi-brand adaptive and scalable design-to-code solution.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Drove the design of the modern web experiences design system, powering key requirements of experimentation and alignment with adjustments across canvases.• Directly supported experiences across 1.4 billion Windows devices, the Edge browser, and Microsoft Start.• Collaborated on Fluent UI across Windows, Office, Teams, Azure, and Web Experiences.• Collaborated on the open-source project FAST, leading Adaptive UI – A novel system that powers next-generation needs, delighters, and accessibility.• Contributed to the W3C design tokens community group.• Worked on design-to-code tools to improve product coherence by promoting a single source of truth and rapid ideation with functional designs.

Seattle, Us

Focused on solving customer problems through deep understanding of their business processes, analyzing usage and process data, and testing of proposed designs.Designed new features to enable businesses to increase their scale and better understand the mountains of data they generate.Championed Design Systems thinking and design tooling for increased efficiency and consistency across the different lines of business.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Helping social media marketers understand their communities and do their best work simply. I designed solutions around the data exploration and visualization challenges are customers were facing, and worked on an updated interface to the flagship product.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Brought a high level of polish and consistency to the Groove Music and Movies & TV apps in Windows 10 (including mobile/phone) by diving into all of the small details. Tweaked every single font, color, margin, scrollbar, and animation so the apps look and function according to the design. I bridged the gap between design and engineering, identifying potential issues before they arose, and ensured smooth communication between the two teams. I identified numerous consistency and usability issues and collaborated with multiple development teams until they were resolved, to achieve the highest quality throughout the product family as a whole.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Xbox Live – Saved hundreds of Xbox Live admins countless hours of time and frustration by designing a slick interface to replace a complicated back-end system for real-time permissions management. Through discussions with stakeholders and evaluation of their needs, I determined the high-priority actions and relevant information and created a streamlined interface that showed users what they have, when it would expire, and enabled them to extend or gain new permissions as necessary. Also increased accountability and reportability by incorporating a way to tie two systems together.IT – Enabled the corporation-wide rollout of two-factor authentication by designing the site used for initial registration and management of your profile. This feature gives employees secure external access to company resources, allowing them to be more connected and productive from any device. As this was targeting more than 100,000 users, it needed to be easy to use to incur minimal support costs, but it also needed to handle several types of scenarios. The adoption rate rose quickly and user feedback was very positive. I took on more work than I was originally brought on for, allowing the project to cut resources, and was subsequently brought back when the team wanted to add new features and update the look.

Seattle, Wa, Us

UX design contractor.

Designing great casual games for mobile devices. The first was a naval battle game called Looting. Detail-oriented with an emphasis on distinctive features like two-player online battle, simple player registration, integration with Facebook, battle invitation, real-time status notifications, and superb usability.Designed a cloud service targeting game developers who need a back-end for managing player and game state. Created a simple interface to define their entities and custom game play rules and integrate the service with their game.

San Rafael, California, Us

In my many years at this company I collaborated on a broad spectrum of successful projects. My primary responsibility was to work with users and requirements to come up with a highly usable design. Please see my full resume for a detailed description of some highlight projects.

Enabled our clients to move to the web and save costs by writing 75% of the UI for the new version of our expense management system. Made major design contributions to our custom html framework, creating greater site consistency and increasing team productivity.