Gina Mendolia Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Scaling Adobe's work experience innovation engine, Lab82, by leading program transformation, driving insights, and enabling a culture of experimentation

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leading the design of systemic interventions to improve the employee experience by:- Partnering with business owners and cross functional teams in complex, multi-partner ecosystems - Championing visual frameworks (journey maps, service blueprints, ecosystem maps) to bring clarity to complex challenges in human behaviors, relationships, workflow and processes, and facilitate decision making- Driving contribution and alignment from multiple stakeholdersMy Teammates: Employee Experience Design team is responsible for providing Adobe employees with frictionless experiences, enabling them to collaborate, innovate and be productive from anywhere. We collaborate at every level within the organization and use your experience to design a wide range of employee-facing digital solutions and create meaningful, human-centric experiences for the tens of thousands of Adobe employees worldwide.

Designing for a variety of large and small clients on a per project basis: service design, design strategy, design research, product concepts, UI prototypes and design. Example work:- Drove an iterative, user-centered design process for the initial launch of a local government communication platform as part of a rapid 6-month city-level COVID response in collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies and Johns Hopkins U- Designed visuals for KPIs, dashboards, and communication modules; iterated with user research and feedback - Built consensus from staff level to C-suite on a user-research informed product vision through interactive prototypes; ensured funding contract by creating MVP for a local government communication platform for COVID-19- Crafted research plan, including a displacement experiment to simulate a “shop-along” in-field observation - Led 24 2-hour interviews and facilitated team discussions to translate user research findings into an actionable strategy for a confidential client’s new computing device- Created, coded, and analyzed 3-part diary study for 50 participants- Socialized findings in weekly client meetings; provided weekly interview summaries and analysis iterations- Delivered a reference report with raw data, insights, and recommendations

Stanford, Ca, Us

Facilitated a 10-week qualitative research course for business and engineering students focused on interviewing, displacement experiments, and data synthesis to develop new perspectives for wicked problems in complex systems

Stanford, Ca, Us

Design Sketching - ME110, Product Design Methods - ME115B, Graduate Design Research Techniques (Needfinding) - ME277

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

- Set the vision, defined team roles, wrote job descriptions, and hired for an internal consulting team- Led and managed an internal consulting team of 6 on the design and integration of a pharmaceutical supply chain platform with an electronic medical record- Authored technical design and specification documents for software developer use

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

- Led the creation of process flows, journey maps, blueprints, and user requirements from qualitative and quantitative research to transform a paper-based PHI and clinical trial management system into a FDA Phase I /II, GDP, GCP, and HIPAA-compliant electronic medical record and a streamlined clinical service flow; managed team of 9- Conducted user and stakeholder research to assess the scalability of product inventory and processes as part of technology transfer task force during company merger; generated process flow maps and efficiency recommendations

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

- Led a team of 3 on the analysis and synthesis of manufacturing data and user requirements to assess process gaps, scope process development projects, and inform business decisions; proactively identified and negotiated solutions to resolve time-sensitive issues impacting 3,500+ units of life-saving treatments (savings worth $2.5M)- Hired, trained, and managed data analyst on SQL programming & best practices for data analysis and presentations to executive members

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

- Developed, launched, managed, and scaled the full drug product life cycle, including wet-lab experiments, execution of go-to-market plans, and internal organizational preparedness- Created and led team culture impact assessment for Executive Leadership Team through survey design and discussion facilitation for 50-person organization

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

- Patented and engineered a drug treatment for Clostridium difficile infection - Conceptualized, designed, and implemented complete product packaging including: labels, boxes, product inserts and user-specific documentation; still in use today

Kigali, Rw

Executed on-site field research in Rwanda for (1) fundraising strategy and (2) training for local staff in professional development program for sustainable agriculture and health NGO

Ms Eng, Design

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biochemistry And Economics

Public Health

Graduate Research Methods And Scholarly Writing In Biotechnology

Data Science

High School Diploma