ADPList is a global mentorship platform that connects aspiring designers with experienced professionals to foster growth, learning, and career advancement.I provide one-on-one or group mentorship sessions tailored to the specific needs and goals of each mentee, assisting them in navigating their career paths, offering advice on portfolio building and professional development, constructive feedback on mentee portfolios, projects, and design challenges, emphasizing areas of improvement and celebrating successes.

As an independent consultant specializing in design operations, product design, and strategy, I leverage my extensive experience to provide research and insights that empower organizations to make informed decisions and to achieve their business goals.Design Operations:- Streamline design processes to improve efficiency and output quality.- Implement best practices for managing design teams and workflows.Product Design:- Conceptualization and development of product designs.- Strategic direction on user experience and interface design.Strategic Consulting:- Conduct in-depth research to deliver actionable insights.- Lead workshops and brainstorming sessions to align stakeholders on strategic initiatives.

In this role, I balanced managing the Design team with participating in the global leadership team for the Lenovo account, collaborating with representatives from Technology, Delivery, Product, and Data to ensure excellent deliveries and account growth.- Leadership: Coordinated a team of 15 designers across Brazil and India, contributing to the success of multiple SaaS products, a design system, and extended reality solutions.- Management: Improved talent allocation and onboarding processes, reducing adaptation time by 60%, and conducted regular performance evaluations.- Development and Training: Mentored team members in technical and soft skills, supporting their career progression and individual aspirations.- Strategy: Led strategic planning and alignment, defining initiatives, success metrics, roles, and team-building activities.- Communities: Engaged in design and product communities, leading the development of the designOps discipline and mentoring in various specialties.- Innovation: Conducted research and strategy in emerging technologies, developing product visions and proofs of concept for AR/VR and generative AI solutions

‣ Leadership: Coordinated a team of 5 designers working on 4 different SaaS solutions, providing guidance and support to achieve project objectives, and ensuring delivery of excellence within deadlines.‣ People Development: Mentored product designers for their technical development, career progression, and achievement of objectives, encouraging the exchange of experiences and pairing.‣ Strategic Consultancy: Provided consultancy for other teams and closely collaborated with key stakeholders and leaders, particularly in critical and highly complex cases.‣ Documentation and Standards: Created and maintained a shared repository containing best practices, processes, and quality standards for the product ecosystem.‣ Training and Enablement: Planned and conducted training for the design team, focusing on backlog and roadmap management skills.‣ Process Optimization: Mapped and improved design, delivery, and communication processes for a complex budget and expenses product team, resulting in a 50% reduction in the transition time from the client's team to ours.

‣ Product Design and Management: Managed the complete product lifecycle, from identifying pain points and opportunities to prioritization, discovery, design and delivery, consistently meeting and exceeding expectations.‣ Collaboration: Closely collaborated with engineering, quality, and data teams to develop user-centric solutions that aligned with business objectives.‣ Relationship Building: Fostered strong relationships with key client stakeholders through efficient and transparent processes and successful project deliveries.‣ Requirements Refinement: Conducted requirements refinement processes, achieving a 40% increase in productivity and efficiency in scope stabilization time by applying new practices such as co-creation, brainwriting (capturing insights in written form), and crafting streamlined dependency checklists.‣ Delivery Cadence: Consistent software delivery into production every two weeks by improving backlog prioritization and breaking down user stories. Used a dual-track roadmap for new features, improvements, and technical debts, delivering new functionalities while addressing critical technical debts, enhancing product reliability, security, and performance.‣ User Satisfaction: Achieved an 80% reduction in complaints and a significant increase in user satisfaction, receiving positive feedback on ease of use and real productivity gains with new features and redesigns.

‣ Research and requirements gathering: investigated user needs through interviews, focus groups, and surveys; translated this information into clear and actionable requirements.‣ Documentation: provided detailed interface and interaction documentation, reports, and presentations to guide development work and communicate with stakeholders.‣ Prototyping: developed prototypes at different levels of fidelity, from basic wireframes to high-fidelity interactive prototypes, to explore and communicate design ideas.‣ Validations: planned and conducted usability tests to validate design solutions with users and iterated as needed.‣ Complexity assessment and estimates: evaluated the effort of design tasks to provide estimates of time and resources required to execute projects.‣ Graphic design: created infographics, reports, and other visual artifacts to support the communication of ideas and results.