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New York, Ny, Us

Leading product design for CMI's product development arm as a player-coach, working with both in-house designers and top-tier agencies.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led work on HackerOne's design system working primarily as a designer, but also via product management and even a bit of coding. I worked alongside a team of great front-end engineers to get the system from "0.1 to 1.0," improving consistency of both UI design in Figma and component API design in React.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led work on HOVER's design system and drove adoption across product teams:• Shipped components via Figma shared libraries matching what's available in code.• Alongside a dedicated front-end engineer, supported (including coding for) a 3-platform component library that supplies teams with React, Bootstrap (for Rails views), and React Native UI elements based on a shared set of JSON tokens.• Wore the hats of design, product management, and (occasionally) engineering for our system.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Led UX design for SF Digital Services work on the affordable housing system, including the resident-facing DAHLIA application and partner-facing tools, built in conjunction with the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development.• Activities included UX/UI design and prototyping, managing the applications' component/pattern library in CSS/HTML and Figma, user research (generative and evaluative), and working with PMs and engineers to set strategy for future features and tooling.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Converted from Design Manager back to Principal Designer to lead work on a high-leverage strategic project redefining how Coursera's university partners package and distribute their content to learners beyond our B2C platform.• Working with research, product directors, and engineering leads to unify administrator-facing experiences for employers and educators from both a systems perspective and an IA/UX one. • Mentoring designers across the team, helping grow our capacity in typography, product and systems thinking, and the soft skills they need to succeed.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Managing the Partner Experience design team, ensuring polish and consistency across shipped features, while helping designers grow and advance their careers and skills.• Working with our Head of Design and CPO to set product strategy with a particular focus on the needs of authors and administrators running both MOOCs and high-engagement experiences on the Coursera platform, and those of enterprise customers bringing learning content to their employees.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Collaborating with other Product leaders to shape Coursera's UX and product strategy. • Leading the Partner Experience team while working cross-functionally at the intersection of authoring/publishing with the learning experience, enterprise business, and growth & discovery.• Providing leadership for Coursera's design system, including a Sketch + React component library, and acting as liaison between design and engineering to implement best practices and maintain excellence across the user experience.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Lead designer for the Partner Experience team, focused on creating authoring and publishing tools for teams bringing scalable, high-touch education experiences to Coursera's millions-strong learner community.• Co-creator of Coursera's design pattern library, ensuring consistency and efficiency in design and implementation across the product, and driving collaboration between design and front-end engineering across the org.• Activities include UX/UI design, wireframing and prototyping, and developing collaborative processes and systems for the design team and the product organization as a whole.

• Freelance product / design strategy, IA/UX/UI/visual design, print design, prototyping, and front-end engineering.• Clients included the University of California, CIvicMakers.org, ArtInPrint.org, 511.org, Designer Fund, and more.• Led and managed projects ranging in scope from early-stage product strategy to bespoke single-page event sites to large-scale IA and UX projects for mobile and desktop.

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Led the mobile team through an end-to-end redesign and rebuild of iOS and Android applications for the Piazza Q&A product.• Lead UX/UI/visual designer for native mobile apps, including user research and testing, wireframing and prototyping, and visual design and typography.• Managed Android and iOS engineering team during rebuild, ran product day-to-day for mobile.• Provided mentoring and education to junior designers.

Boulder, Co, Us

• Led UX/Interaction and visual design for desktop and mobile web for a civic engagement tool used by cities, non-profit organizations, and others to engage with citizens on urban design and planning projects.• Lead Front-end engineer (haml, sass, and javascript in a Ruby on Rails environment) for desktop and mobile, working to produce elegant, reusable code with maximum velocity.• Google Analytics custom metric design and implementation to drive data-informed product strategy.• User testing, research, and analysis, leveraging both remote/online and in-person processes.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Designed (Product/UX/UI), built (PHP, MySQL, Apache, ffmpeg, etc), and maintained a large-scale video editing/tagging and distribution web application available to language instructors and students at more than 60 colleges and universities in 3 countries.• Designed and maintained departmental website and social media presence.• Responsible for departmental visual design and branding, including print publication and marketing design.• User research and analysis across BLC product offerings.

Certificate, Graphic Design

Bfa, Studio Art (Painting/Printmaking)