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United States

Founder and UX/Product Design Leader at Kollective, specializing in creating innovative, user-centric digital experiences. With over 15 years of experience, I build scalable design systems that empower teams, accelerate product development, and drive growth. My expertise spans industries like healthcare, finance, and e-commerce, where I’ve led projects that streamline processes and enhance user engagement. Passionate about merging technology with intuitive design, I help businesses transform their ideas into impactful digital products.

New York, Ny, Us

GetPartnered helps companies scale their revenue through channel partner and VAR relationships without building a massive sales team.- Led product and UX strategy for a new category of product aimed at the partner relationship market- Conducted user studies to test initial market opportunity hypotheses- Designed a collaborative environment for sales, engineering and product to work togetherand go to market with a holistic message and solution- Created a design system to quickly iterate on wireframes and incorporate user feedback- Oversaw creative and UX direction for product, sales and marketing- Incorporated a market feedback loop to inform product, marketing and sales as a strategy toachieve product market fit- Developed online presence to reinforce market position and product category

Austin, Texas, Us

Facilitated the design and development of a flexible design system based on design thinking principles.Clients: Yahoo, IBM, Dell, Gap, Visa, Sony, Boeing, Edelman, and Old Navy- Created a User-Cenered design experience that vastly increased sales post Oracle acquisition•- Designed a Partner Configurator zone that allows Social Sourcing to onboard and scale partners without using internal resources•- Collaborated - with product team and dev team to institute a responisve design philosophy across consumer facing Social Sourcing products•- Oversaw Creative and UX direction for new growth products that scaled the core Social Sourcing experience across any number of business verticals•- Worked with product team to roll out new features and create a process where UX and design collateral is used for sales enablement

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Provided User Experience leadership as well as Art Direction for SelectMinds Social Recruiting products. Clients: Ebay, Mcgraw Hill, Google, ADP, IBM, and Dow Jones.- Oversaw Creative and UX direction for TalentVine, a social recruiting product- Reengineered internal workflow integrating UX and visual design into the Agile Development process- Created an engaging cross-platform mobile experience across all major mobile browsers- Collaborated with product and sales to deliver the SelectMinds market strategy- Produced the SelectMinds web commercial further solidifying the SelectMinds brand in the social recruitment space - Rebranded the Marketing site and managed external development agency team

New York, Ny, Us

Co-Founded and launched RealDirect, an online Real Estate platform that empowers and provides easy online tools for Home Sellers and Buyers.- Oversaw the development of the RealDirect product offering- Pitched and demoed key RealDirect features to several VC's which led to our initial round of funding- Developed the RealDirect Brand and marketing presence- Implemented Agile methodologies across the development team- Sourced and managed the technology team to build the RealDirect product offering

Creative and Interaction design lead for the TargetSpot ad platform.- Created the TargetSpot visual brand tying the marketing site and TargetSpot's self-service internet radio ad platform into one cohesive experience- Collaborated with the VP of Product to create the UX for self-service internet radio ad platform- Oversaw as well as had a hands on role in the front-end development of the self-service internet radio ad platform- Designed and developed proof-of-concept prototypes for new product features

New York, Ny, Us

Developed custom solutions across multiple accounts.Clients: Verizon, S&P, Nokia, Nike, Lucent, Legg Mason, and Purina- Technology lead for Verizon marketing initiatives- Developed a tracking response system to test the effectiveness of alternative creative executions for direct mail and online e-mail campaign initiatives- De- veloped a TeamSite CMS solution to create a shared information repository for Legg Mason and it's subsidiaries Authored business and technical requirements leading to the development of proposals and SOWs- Developed a publishing solution for Alcatel-Lucent employees to easily publish marketing material from a content repository- Developed a localization solution for all S&P sites through the use of CSS- Led front-end development of a pet owner centered social network for Purina- Led development of a custom CMS tool for Nike ID connecting global Nike business units to a content repository

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- Worked with clients' agencies, and account teams to scope and clearly define a program to meet business and user requirements- Built and trained teams of front-end developers to redesign and maintain mazdausa.com- Developed kiosk applications for Mazda car dealerships- Collaborated with back-end architects to apply CSS implementation in content management system- Led development of vw.com utilizing XHTML, DHTML, JavaScript, and CSS- Created portable layouts with logical CSS and XHTML 1.0 templates reducing code by more than 50% - Developed site architecture and worked closely with creative team to develop user interface in accordance with accessibility standards- Created a new template strategy for Toyota and Lexus increasing efficiency and resulting in early project delivery - these flexible templates allowed for yearly redesigns of each site- Improved and developed relationships between Proxicom and Toyota's agencies (Saatchi & Saatchi, and Conill) ensuring successful and early delivery of several multi-million dollar engagements- Developed a program to train Toyota's advertising agencies to update website content with TeamSite

Ba, Psychology

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