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Santa Clara, CA, US

• Drove usability testing to evaluate new products and ease-of-use.
• Created new product offerings for clients by working cross-functionally with Business Units,Marketing, and Engineering
• Performed heuristic evaluations, interpreted heat-map data for consumer behavior insights,researched competitive landscape for new products, and created journey maps
• Spearheaded research in customer behavior and usage patterns to discover unmetcustomer needs presenting findings to CEO and executive staff.
• Developed UX wireframes/concepts addressing market opportunities, increasedconversion, and improved customer satisfaction.

San Diego, California, US

• Drove the product roadmap, strategic vision, and execution in collaboration with theBusiness Units, Marketing, Engineering, Customer Support, and Compliance.
• Managed, grew, and coached a team of 12 UX designers and front-end developers.
• Defined and implemented usability testing and a user-centered design process to improvethe customer experience and address accessibility via WCAG 2.0 compliance.
• Led the redesign and rebrand of corporate website merging over 5 disparate webproperties, 250+ pages into a consistent rebranded user experience.- Managed and built out the design team including research and.

• Mentored and coached teams through user-centered / design thinking process.
• Designed a social media content curation product that produces advertising componentsthat increased conversion over 15%.
• Coded front-end of using Angular, JavaScript, JQuery, Less, CSS, HTML.
• Led the re-design effort for the checkout process for Invitrogen.com (now ThermoFisher), a site with over $1 billion dollars in revenue
• Designed key product configuration experiences, including a custom gene synthesis/DNA sequence editor and custom media ordering system
• Organized and facilitated customer research including field visits and usability sessions for ideation and concept testing

https://www.chatmap.io- Designed a collaborative map and communication application for iOS including interactions, prototypes, wireframes, iconography and customer-facing assets.- Led field research, usability, and beta testing programs.- Coded back-end map data reporting engine.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

- Designed new Android driving app utilizing vehicle diagnostics codes, mapping information, and driver performance.- Conducted customer interviews and driving tests for iPhone and Android apps.- Created a cornucopia of driving companion app concepts and prototypes for iPhone and Android. - Led the creation and implementation of the Nokia Beta testing.

- Created a new hardware controller for PC based video games.- Developed proof-of-concepts and prototypes to test and prove out ideas.- Worked with programmers, electrical engineers, and industrial designers to flush out final design.- Developed cloud-based solution for managing video game profiles and website.- Orchestrated and led usability and product.

San Diego, CA, US

- Led the design of an Android / mobile application for managing a networked home environment and headless devices.- Worked with customers and engineers to test and evaluate concepts.- Designed and prototyped desktop communications application (think Skype).- Collaborated with other designers to ensure consistency across mobile and desktop platforms.

San Diego, California, US

- Designed web-based graphing and data-visualization solution aimed at improving the care for patients with diabetes. - Developed front-end code for the web-based application with Ajax, Javascript, HTML and CSS.- Documented interaction designs for 501(k) clearance and FDA approval.

Waltham, MA, US

- Led the re-design effort for the checkout process for Invitrogen.com, a site that sees over $1 billion dollars in revenue annually.- Designed key product configuration experiences, including a custom gene synthesis/DNA sequence editor and custom media ordering system- Organized and facilitated customer research including field visits and usability.

Mountain View, California, US

- Led the design effort for TurboTax, a $1 Billion+ per year software as a service and desktop application- Ensured consistent user experience across multiple business units, leading a cross functional team to deliver the "TurboTax UI Guidelines"- Responsible for "upsell" designs and increased conversion achieved through innovative events including crowd.

San Jose, CA, US

- Collaborated with product managers and business divisions to develop scalable designs on projects related to "finding and buying", natural search, affiliate and other customer acquisition focused projects- Led design efforts for eBay Reviews & Guides (reviews.ebay.com), a high profile, customer activity and natural search related initiative used by.

-Defined the user experience for customer relationship management application-Developed prototypes for user testing-Conducted usability tests and evaluations-Addressed usability and interaction design-Created templates, style guides, and functional specifications-Created layouts, icons, and graphical elements-Determined feature set for product.

--Designed user experience for B2B e-commerce platformConducted contextual interviews and usability tests-Addressed usability issues-Created prototypes and demos for testing and presentations-Managed documentation staff and developed help documentation, getting started guides, and tutorials-Produced marketing related websites

Bedford, MA, US

- Managed financial web site receiving 145,000+ page views per day- Facilitated and drove development for online Java based product and financial site- Managed large-scale site re-design including information architecture, usability issues, and overall look and feel- Produced banner advertisements receiving up to 18% click-through

Masters, Human Computer Interaction

Ba, Economics

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