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Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles

Product Manager and Digital Product Design

Los Angeles, California

• Ideated and developed user-centered technology tools for investment research and portfolio management, innovated with cutting-edge technology concepts to provide meaningful operational advantages.
• Promoted to technology management role, leading eight product managers, interface designers and systems analysts. Trained and guided careers, evaluated performance and set associate development objectives.
• Led the development of Capital’s mission-critical systems for Investment Analysts and Portfolio Managers. Elicited requirements for a for time-sensitive investment research and data delivery platform.
• Leveraged IT resources and vendor partners to successfully complete multiple project streams and objectives
• Built strong relationships with project stakeholders. Reported to c-suite executives on budget, project health and product quality. Designed change management campaigns for users at all levels of technical.

Los Angeles, California

• Interviewed stakeholders, led brainstorms and creative sessions to define requirements.Design conceptual mockups, prototypes, wireframes, style guides and marketing materials.
• Integrated social media and collaboration concepts with a research document archive providing a virtual environment for investment professionals to distribute and discuss 90 years of internal research.
• Championed the organizational transformation to agile development. Grew a practice of user-centered interface design within IT, providing training and guidance.
• Planned the technology roadmap, with capabilities updates, data sources and application retirements, transitioning from archaic Lotus Notes databases to modern web and mobile applications.

Culver City, California

Continued development for the launch of the 2003 Sonypictures.com site, including global regionalized versions. Created sites and marketing assets for television shows, movies and Sony games.

Remote Team

User Experience Design for sony.com, art direction and interface design for the sonypictures.com 2003 site.

Los Angeles, California

Created concepts for startup businesses through visual design mockups, prototypes, and user interface design. Founding member of an internal naming and branding practice. Defined and proposed new product capabilities for internet provider Earthlink.

Los Angeles, California

Art Direction and user interface design for the sonypictures.com 1998 site. Designed user-centered interfaces for CNA Trust, Barbie and Days of Our Lives.

Pasadena, California

Designed and launched At Hand site integrating product reviews, content and yellow pages search. Rebranded from a California-centric service to a national website. Created advertising inventory opportunities.

Palm Springs, California

Strategy and design for digital versions of six local/city magazines, including Palm Springs Life.

Los Angeles, California; Wakayama Japan

• Design and planning for the Porto Europa theme park signage program consisting of over 1500 signage elements.
• Created marketing graphics and branding for the park, individual attractions, restaurants, clubs and retail locations.
• Identified and contracted with design and fabrication vendors.
• Co-created and designed the cast of park mascot characters and merchandise, featured in their own film attraction. Oversaw the character and park branding translations to opening-day merchandise.
• Creative development for Islands of Adventure’s Seuss Landing and storyboards for The Cat In The Hat ride.

Glendale, California

• Managed environmental graphics program for opening-day Disney MGM Studios in Orlando. Estimated design effort and tracked 1800 signage elements. Managed budget, production details, and schedule.
• Extended the tracking tools I developed to support the Euro Disneyland Graphic Design team.Planning and design for Tokyo’s Coral Landing, Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse, and EPCOT’s China Gallery.
• Fabrication and installation of environmental graphics for EPCOT’s Imageworks.Art Director for Imagineering’s internal magazine, the WDeye.

Glendale, California

• Designed and built dimensional models for Disneyland’s Indiana Jones Adventure and Disney Studio’s Star Tours.
• Acquired, designed and fabricated hundreds of props for The Adventurers Club in Walt Disney World.