Director of Consulting Services for User Experience. Leads the UX Practice for custom interfaces with an emphasis on Salesforce and Google. Leads customer UX engagements and serves as a trusted advisor. Appirio is a global services provider who uses crowdsourcing and cloud, social and mobile technology to help enterprises reimagine their business and become more agile. Appirio brings together technology expertise with a deep understanding of the way people work, and the nearly limitless skills of a crowdsourcing community of 600,000+ developers, designers and analysts to help enterprises transform relationships with their customers, partners and workforce. Appirio has worked with more than 750 enterprises, including organizations like Facebook, Intuit, Japan Post Network, L'Oreal, McGraw-Hill, NetApp, The Four Seasons, and Virgin America. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic.

Manage creative projects for corporate clients, on a per-project basis.

Managed fortune 100 accounts. Lead team of visual designers, programmers and community resources to meet business needs for branding, technology, and online strategy including social media. Effectively documented scheduling, planning and communication solutions to key stakeholders. * Gathered information and formulated a clear plan of action for specific deliverables as well as overall project scope.* Produced wireframes, functional specification documentation, and strategic recommendations for online brand extension. * Lead and stimulated community interaction as a catalyst to build project components in a methodical way.* Effectively managed both internal and remote resources.* Actively facilitated communication between the clients, business and development teams.* Developed and maintained project relationships, team building, schedules and budgets.* Core member of TopCoder team used in many diverse areas including event planning and production.

Web and PrintDesigned print collateral, web and other online resources for regional and national clients. Effectively communicated design direction, and managed client and internal resources.

Conducted required semester class on design basics and creative front-end coding to Interactive Information Technology majors. Topics covered included typography, motion graphics, design & development tools (software & programming languages), information architecture and basic marketing.

Managed brand strategies for regional and national clients. Extended brand through print, display and online media. Specialized in annual reports, tradeshow materials and advertizing, both online and traditional.

Created and evaluated web solutions in fast-paced team environment. Directly consulted with clients and internal team to evaluate solutions, standards and best practices.