VMware was acquired by Broadcom in Nov. '23.

Established a design discipline and culture at the Army Software Factory (ASWF) in Austin, TX, as part of the Army Futures Command, where I also drove initiatives to enhance training processes for instructors. Separately, contributed to the development of assets and resources that equipped individual contributors to confidently start LLM projects, enabling the Tanzu Sales team to effectively promote and sell this capability. • Led research and design efforts to develop a digital solution that enabled over 20 instructors to monitor fire mission processing data, significantly reducing manual data capture and allowing more time to focus on training over 200 soldiers. • Served as the design lead at the Army Software Factory (ASWF), guiding four cohorts of over 30 soldiers through software development, curriculum creation, and technical training sessions. Played a key role in transforming soldiers with little to no design and technology background into competent, user-focused designers. • Enhanced the preparedness of individual contributors for AI- centric client projects, supporting the Tanzu Sales team in shortening sales cycles and increasing revenue. Conducted experiments with large language models (LLMs) to evaluate their effectiveness and improve internal evaluation processes.

Led the research and design effort to create a digital companion app for people living with narcolepsy.Additionally, I co-led Takeda's design thinking initiative to promote and expand the company's user-centered design practices. • Led a research initiative with individuals who have narcolepsy (PwN) to gain insights into how their daily challenges impact their quality of life. • Designed user flows and UI that enables people with narcolepsy (PwN) to record their symptoms, helping them gain a clearer understanding of their condition. • Frequently led workshops with company leadership to encourage and implement user-centered design practices across the organization. • Collaborated with company leadership to research and plan the 'Return to Office' initiative, aimed at supporting employees as they transition back to working in the office.

Served as the design lead within a multi-disciplinary team to revamp the interface used by physicians and clinicians during patient consultations about personal health. • Directed the research and redesign of athenahealth’s Social History experience, encompassing a content builder for internal content creators, a workflow system for practice administrators to create Social History templates, and an interface for physicians and clinicians to use during patient consultations.

Led the UX design within a multi-disciplinary team for the last three and a half years working with Fortune 500 companies. Drove design research for projects in the oil and gas industry, military, financial services and internal research initiatives within Pivotal’s R&D department. • Streamlined and consolidated 16 different systems into an internal application for the mortgage retention department at a major financial services provider. • Led design initiative with the Air Force to identify challenges faced by maintenance workers in their scheduling and certification processes. • Spearheaded research initiatives within Pivotal's R&D department to understand the issues customers face when using Pivotal's cloud platform. • Designed an internal application for a financial services provider that allows traders and their managers to track sales performance and incentivizes them to achieve higher and more consistent productivity.

Caffeinated Mornings is a once a month design lecture hosted at Madelife in Boulder. Co-founded and organized Colorado’s first design oriented monthly meetup. We had a community filled to the brim with amazing creatives, but no forum to meet and learn from one another. Caffeinated Mornings started with less then ten attendees and is now going into its seventh year with attendance averaging sixty to ninety attendees a month. Caffeinatedmornings.com

Co-led design within a design pair team structure for a year before being acquired by Pivotal. Projects included working with Medtronic, Deloitte Digital, Prologis and startups. Slice of Lime was acquired by Pivotal Labs in January 2016. • Created an integrated performance management and decision-support platform to allow users to quickly compare different financial outcome scenarios. • Researched, designed and launched an iOS app that allows users to schedule the time and location for an oil change.