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Santa Clara, CA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Involved with influencing vision, strategy, and leading design for multiple products and features in the SkyKick platform ecosystem, working closely with senior executives, stakeholders, and remote engineering teams across the U.S. and Europe. Responsible for managing and executing designrequests from multiple engineering backlogs and participating in.

Seattle, WA, US

Responsible for leading the design of a new cloud product in close collaboration with the Product Owner, Lead Architect, and an all-star team of engineers. Involved in daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint retrospectives, writing stories, brainstorming/ideation sessions, and in the execution of design deliverables. Other responsibilities included.

Lead creative and user experience design for a clean energy marketplace startup. Responsible for collaborating with the Product Team to identify improvements and recommend strategies that increase customer acquisition based on customer issues and business goals. Other responsibilities included marketing, content strategy and copywriting, project.

Seattle, WA, US

Experience strategy, interaction, and visual design for Amazon’s cloud platform products. Responsible for driving ideation and execution, as well as meeting with client executives to evangelize ideas, gain alignment and drive decision-making.

Seattle, Washington, US

UX strategy and design for gettyimages.com and future initiatives. Responsible for experience strategy, design execution and validation based on research findings, communication with stakeholders to understand business priorities, and getting buy-offs on designs.

Leadership responsibilities included managing and mentoring resources, content and experience strategy, POC's for proposals; providing quotes for time and resources; participating in creative pitches to clients; coordinating with teams of developers, copywriters, project managers and stakeholders to bring a project to fruition; maintaining relationships.

• Brainstorming and ideation, content and experience strategy, planning and scope definition, design execution and validation, overseeing and coordinating teams through final product delivery.Projects
• Probono Manager, a SAS application that enables law firms to manage their pro bono practice.
• iSoftStone North America, responsive website.
• Expedia, IT Support Services Catalog, a cloud-based enterprise servicemanagement platform.
• Microsoft, Enterprise Cloud Services, a hosting services platform.Other responsibilities include managing and mentoring, content, experience strategy and POC's for proposals; providing quotes for time and resources.

Bellevue, Washington, US

• Provided content strategy, art direction, interaction and visual design for Microsoft's Global Diversity and Inclusion web experience.
• Provided art direction, UX and visual design for a web platform for Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Services that enables users to consume hosting services from various platforms with a one-stop-shopping experience.
• Provided business requirements analysis, conducting SME interviews, scenario development, prototype design and art direction for a cloud-based application for Microsoft Research.
• Responsible for driving the experience and art direction of the Bing Maps responsive site.
• Provided content strategy, user experience and art direction for the design of the MSCOM Operator Channels responsive site. Other responsibilities included managing and mentoring, collaborating on Creative Briefs.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Provided guidance as a UX Consultant to Microsoft's LCA/Business Technology & Solutions team, driving the rebranding effort of existing tools to conform to the MSFT Visual Identity Guidelines. Provided UX guidance and brand style guide for the Content Management tool at MSN Entertainment. Lead a team of UX Designers, responsible for the delivery of a NDA.

Visual design for MSN Entertainment promotional websites such as the Golden Globe Awards, the Cannes Film Festival and the Winter Movie Guide. Design and production of images for MSN’s online Music Magazine, Control Room concerts, promotional banners for MSN Originals shows and article galleries. Concept, design and production for Microsoft Home.

Seattle, WA, US

Responsible for developing online content for the top entertainment destination sites and online games for kids in an award-winning Flash animation design studio.

Worldwide, OO

Supported Senior Partners and Senior Managers of the firm. Responsibilities included preparing, proofreading and editing client deliverables such as correspondence, memos, spreadsheets, reports, presentations, and financial statements. Tracking receivables. Internet research to compile information for presentations and potential clients. Planning and.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Provided research and administrative support to Director and several Principal Investigators. Coordinated top level advisory board meetings. Coordinated large conferences acting as liaison between RAND and conference participants, many of which were distinguished members of the academic society. Monitored multiple project budgets. Provided translations.

Bfa, New Media

Scenario Focused Engineering

Cua, Certified Usability Analyst

B.A., Biology