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I am irrationally in love with great product design. Beautiful, delightful user experiences are one of the few true competitive advantages in a world of non-differentiated “meh” brands and products. For the past 20 years, I've been building and leading world-class design teams for brands like Adobe, Microsoft, Crocs, & Samsung.In house or at global ad agencies, I've led teams of UX designers, UX researchers, Engineers, PMs, Art Directors, and Copywriters. We've wrestled with, and found solutions to, compelling opportunities like - how do you connect multiple design systems across a multi-brand multi-product company? How do you build a web and marketing design system on top of a desktop product design system? How do you use generative AI safely in an enterprise environment? I've also driven publishing and implementation strategies for for sites with millions of users across 60+ languages. All while partnering with growth teams to test & optimize this system at ever-increasing velocities. We've built web products that are not only beautiful and delightful to use but founded on strong user testing, research and insights. These aren't easy problems to solve, but I've built a broad base of experience across industries as varied as B2B enterprise, tech, retail, CPG, video games and more. I'm one of the few design leaders with a Masters' degree in HCI and UX. I thrive at the intersection of business needs, strategic direction, product design, and marketing. My team's collective efforts have generated hundreds of millions of $USD in incremental ARR around the world. I speak at universities around the US on Design Systems, Creativity, and UX design; judge national AAF and One Show awards; and my work has won the gamut of One Show, D&AD, Effie, and FWA awards. Skills: Executive UX Direction, Product Design, Design Systems, Web and Marketing Design Systems, Product Design Systems, Web Taxonomy, Information Architecture, Product Design, Digital Strategy, Content Strategy, Web Design, Accessibility Design, SEO Technology and Design, Creative Leadership, User Research, Customer Insights, Global Design Leadership, Testing & Optimization Design, Growth Design.Team Leadership, Content Publishing, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Brand Storytelling.