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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

London, England, Gb

Woodland Hills, Ca, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked with product and technology leaders to support cross-functional teams to developing market-leading technology for competitive advantage and incredible fun in the esports and gaming space. Supported device interaction design between our award-winning audio products team and our software organization.Products included Sonar, providing 360 spatial audio and pinpoint precision through a first-of-its-kind parametric EQ and advanced audio suite, as well as Moments, real-time AI-informed clip capturing software so that every moment for glory and every epic fail were ready to share.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Established Devbridge's Digital Acceleration practice, combining software delivering, team training and development, with coaching and transformation efforts.Anchored transformation efforts in software delivery and results. This new offering reflects the culmination and development of multiple successful services within Devbridge from the Sourcery training program to accelerating product delivery through targeted discovery and definition efforts.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Devbridge partners with Global 2000 organizations to build custom software that delivers results. Our product designers make sure people come first. We seek to understand before we act, and design for outcomes that take the entire business and product context into consideration. Our full stack design team takes pride in our craftsmanship across service design, research, design thinking, and experience design efforts.As the head of product design I work with the team to develop trainings, evolve our capabilities and offerings, coach client organizations, and support our dual-track delivery efforts.

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed the career development, performance, and supported the delivery of a group of engineers, product managers, and product designers. Established approaches and practices for allocation, performance, and career management alongside the office leadership team.Served as Client Liason for engagements to ensure successful delivery balancing time, budget, and scope. Led human-centered design activities for clients in aerospace, multiple insurance verticals, financial technologies, manufacturing, transportation, food sciences, and agriculture. Owned full-stack design delivery including service design, UX design, interface design, user research, usability studies, testing plans, and iterative delivery of design.Worked alongside office leadership and sales to develop best practices around framing engagements and estimating delivery for multi-stage, multi-year engagements.

San Francisco, California, Us

First Product Designer hired to Pivotal's Chicago office. Responsible for working with engineering, sales, and leadership to establish cadence for delivery of digital products incorporating design and product best practices for enterprise Digital Transformation. Helped to grow the Chicago office to 100+ clients and Pivots working alongside each other daily in software delivery.Drove customer-focused design processes, involving the entire delivery team and stakeholders in interviews, reviews, and strategic data-informed evolution of product direction.Managed the initial phases of product delivery, recommending team size and schedule as well as scope for the MVP release. During delivery, created and managed design assets multiple engagements and clients.Facilitated research, product discovery, and delivery. Managed delivery backlogs alongside client Product Owners while providing coaching on story writing, prioritization, and release management. Anchored delivery on engagements with Fortune 100 clients.Provided coaching sessions to client Product teams on re-framing approach throughout a Digital Transformation of the business and technology.

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked alongside delivery teams globally to master the 'art of heavy lifting' in software delivery. Partnered with Fortune 500 organizations to quickly deliver products to market through extreme programming, agile methodologies, and lean product thinking.Developed and designed applications including a responsive and accessible pharmacy application, OLED device display, and an educational technology tool designed iteratively through weekly feedback sessions with customers and the business.

Chicago, Il, Us

Notre Dame, In, Us

Notre Dame, In, Us