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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

• Instilled a cross-functional collaborative culture based around, trust, candid feedback, and shared purpose.• Pioneered an iterative design feedback process that gathered the various perspectives of collaborators and stakeholders from all product elevations at the most effective moment in the creative process.• Facilitated the development of the Design Team charter. Championed the charter throughout the company and with executive leadership to establish the product experience as a critical part of the product strategy.• Implemented a design system strategy to enhance current products and streamline future ones.• Established a collaborative performance review practice to raise the talent bar of the Product Design Team.• Championed diversity and inclusion initiatives as a member of the DEIB council.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Hired and developed a global design team for the core computing experiences of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.• Implemented new creative processes, including design sprints, a research and requirements tracking system, and collaborative cross-team ideation and review culture.• Led the innovation process into entirely new corporate culture products to enhance employee wellbeing, communication, and engagement.• Defined the vision, processes, relationships, and implementation for a new design system across all touch points of the Oracle Cloud product.• Pioneered new Diversity and Inclusion hiring and internship programs.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Hired, managed, mentored, increased diversity awareness, and implemented mechanisms to grow the creative culture for multiple teams of designers and researchers.• Implemented design processes and a culture of innovation throughout the organization. Set a user experience vision to create consistency and cohesiveness throughout the wide range of Amazon Pay products.• Developed a new design language for the entire product suite and marketing assets of Amazon Pay.• Created a holistic future vision for Amazon-wide customer self-service experiences across next-generation surfaces and devices.• Envisioned an entirely new Kindle Bookstore based around personalization and the presentation of contextually aware information.• Redesigned the core Amazon Pay desktop and mobile experiences from the ground up, developed a new interaction model for mobile and in-store purchases, and designed the first party Amazon Pay voice driven experience for Alexa. • Member of the Kindle Experience Bar Raiser program of leaders to ensure the Kindle products meet a consistently high bar for customer experience.

Davis, Ca, Us

• Directed the launch of over 200 highly complex and strategic design projects for Fortune 50 companies that impacted over 500,000 users in 80 countries.• Managed, mentored, and cultivated a design team of UX and visual designers.• Set a user experience vision, championed a creative culture, implemented iterative processes, and defined creative workflows that included custom UX design tools.• Defined an organizational communication strategy that allowed information from UX research and project requirements to more effectively flow from research into strategy, through design, and ultimately into development.• Conducted user roundtables, interviews, A/B testing, and usability test in person at locations around the world. • Designed and coded a cloud-based UX design toolset used by the team to plan and execute all design projects.

Cupertino, California, Us

• Designed and developed products from sketches and flows to highly functional prototypes and on to final code for the web (html, javascript, css) and java.• Designed and developed custom modern web standard design tools to replace the organization's dependence on Adobe Flash for content creation.• Led intensive research, including focus groups, interviews, and stakeholder consultations, to formulate content strategy and design directions.• Created a modular interaction engine, and related support tools, that kept text-based content separated from the styling, display, and animation layers in order to facilitate localization in 15 languages.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Designed experiences that brought the content and its intent to life through 3D animation, video, audio, print, custom applications, and web technologies.• Produced, directed, shot, and edited video and audio presentations for large format and web-based material.• Designed, built, and managed the video/sound production studio for all multimedia content.