I’ll be working with the team to bring *creativity for all* to students and educators around the world. Along with my role in education I lead the design effort for Adobe Fresco, the best drawing app in the world, and Adobe Fonts (so many delicious fonts). Basically, I'm a kid in a candy store.

My teams help people to discover the right Adobe products, learn how to use them, find inspiration and reach their creative goals. Plus, I run a pretty good brainstorm.

Responsibilities - Led Twitter’s Business Product Design teams: Ads & Exchange, Twitter Dashboard, Business Profiles and Customer Service. Collaborated with Engineering and Product Manager counterparts to shape strategy, define the roadmap and ship product. Managed designers and design managers, helping them to have impact and achieve their career goals. Recruited passionate and inspired UX designers, managers and content strategists to join our team.

Responsibilities - Led project teams to define and design new advertising products. Worked with product management, engineering and product marketing teams to build and launch those products. Managed the development of a cohesive visual brand for Facebook’s business interfaces.

Responsibilities - Collaborated with a diverse range of companies to identify opportunities for new products and services, based on their business strategy and competitive landscape. Worked closely with key client stakeholders to build a shared vision and develop approaches to product innovation. Created proof-of-concept's, prototypes and videos that demonstrate the value proposition of new products to partners and press. Developed strategic roadmaps that show organizations how to integrate new offerings into their existing business plan. Managed teams through the product development process: from initial concept and branding, through UX and UI design, to shipped code. Achievements - Helped grow the strategy practice at Hot Studio from 1 person to 9 people, establishing best practices in product innovation, design thinking and experience design. Led Hot Studio's expansion into mobile and tablet design, beginning with the development of the Zinio iPad App. Led key marketing efforts, including the repositioning of Hot Studio and the redesign of Hotstudio.com. Established multi-year client relationships. Clients - TicketFly, Zinio, AIM, Aol, AAA (TripleSpot), Intel (StoryPlay), Hearst AppLab, Marie Claire Magazine, Seventeen Magazine, Sungevity, Marin Magazine, Time, Aetna, HP and Kno

Responsibilities - Led multidisciplinary teams to translate customer insights into meaningful design solutions. Developed creative processes that allow researchers, strategists and designers to take a collective approach to problem solving. Planned and conducted customer research, experience audits, retail audits and analyzed findings. Engaged clients in the creative process through collaborative workshops and brainstorms. Created tools that helped clients socialize innovation within their organizations, including Persona Development, Customer Journey Mapping, and Experience Modeling. Crafted customer-centric brand strategy programs that map across multiple touchpoints. Achievements - Diversified the client base through strategic business development and sales engagements. Expanded the capabilities and capacity of the practice through selective recruiting. The Brand Experience practice grew from 4 to 24 employees in 6 years, and was the most profitable group at Continuum. Clients - CVS/Pharmacy, Center for Creative Leadership, DxTech, Harvard Business Review, InterContinental Hotels, Pfizer/Listerine Agent Cool Blue, PRTM, Perspecta Trust, The Polar Defense Project, Sprint, Zarafina from Sunbeam

Cofounded Department 3 in the fall of 2000. Coauthored methodology and corporate positioning. Contributed to all aspects of the company’s creative output: from project definition and information architecture to concept development and design execution. Department 3’s engagements encompassed brand strategy and identity development, print design, interactive design and packaging. Clients included PeopleSoft, UltimateTV from Microsoft, CMCD, Logitech, Macromedia, Robert Mondavi, One & Co and ReadyMade Magazine.

Built Phoenix Pop’s brand development practice. Worked with the management teams of start-up companies to define their marketing strategy and product offering. Managed the brand development process: from corporate positioning and naming through design execution and the creation of corporate identity guidelines. Helped to grow the user experience discipline; including the development of information architecture and interactive prototypes. Led the interface design process, from concept development through production. Clients included Spotlife.com, iTheo.com and ShipServ.

Worked on groundbreaking Web projects involving new systems of information architecture and functionality. Lead the development of user experience and visual design on initiatives for UPS, RealNetworks and IBM (the Kasparov vs. Deep BlueWeb site). Led the design on branding projects for Fortune 500 companies, as well as high-tech startups. Developed identities for Intel, 3com, ShareWave and Scient.

Designed sales and marketing materials for consumer goods giants such as Clorox, Golden Grain, The Learning Company and Dreyer’s. Learned the details of design production. Mastered the fine art of marker comps and tracing type. Art directed photo shoots and built comps.