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California, United States

Building the next generation Data Catalog.

Independent product design work and development into new ideas centered on data collaboration, machine-learning operationalization, and data science monitoring.

Director of Product Design and UX for the Alpine Chorus data analytics, machine learning, and collaboration platform.Defined and institutionalized strategic vision for the product platform.• Design-driven• Decomposed holistic vision into pragmatic steps for incremental release.Product design of the Touchpoints product.• A code-free environment that extends the accessibility of machine learning/data science.• Expanded the range of enterprise data science usage by an order of magnitude.• Performed UX research, discovery, design from start to finish, and customer/partner iteration.• Patent-pending.Unified separate products into a single coherent product platform with transformation to a new intuitive consumer-grade interface.Created vision and product design for enterprise-grade data visibility, roles, and permissions features.Manager, UX/Product Documentation.

San Jose, California, Us

Creative lead, team leader, design evangelist, and mentor for the Enterprise Product Design organization.Director for concept development, strategy, interaction design, and hands-on execution of strategic initiatives and strategic projects. Coordinated design across multiple product lines for end-user needs, consistency, and design quality.• Application performance management (APM)• APM mobile concept• IT/Business Intelligence• Network and infrastructure monitoring• Access and identity compliance• Service catalog/managementDiscovery and design of Executive Insight• Created new design-driven product enabling IT & business communication by translating IT metrics into the language of business, with visualization. • Created product vision and delivered holistic application design.• Led subsequent work to build and iterate product releases, the first organically-grown product within the company. Agile process throughout. • Patent-pending.Mentor, adviser, and manager on simultaneous team projects.Shepherd for the principles, guidelines, shared behaviors, and styles that established the Experience Brand for CA products, both web/desktop and mobile. Produced and propagated the framework for the enterprise Mobile Design Language.

San Jose, California, Us

Design Manager for West Coast team of the CA Product Design group, reporting to SVP of Product Design.Directly managed team, including review process and goal settings for organizational development and personal growth.

San Jose, California, Us

Design Architect for Service Assurance business unit.Initiated and directed redesign project for Application Performance Management product line to transform and internally disrupt the existing market-leading tools.

Independent user experience designer.Clients/projects included• Evernote; social sharing• Mobile payments (self-funded)• Essentia Software; collaboration (startup)• Social e-commerce (startup)

San Jose, Ca, Us

Team lead in Merchant Experience / Partner Experience business line. Owner of UX for business merchant accounts.Led local design team for stand-alone payment products while working with international cross-functional teamsDistilled business requirements into design specifications for merchant platform. Pioneered Agile Scrum software processes for use within PayPal’s User Experience group. Planned and managed user experience team deliverables and release schedule across multiple simultaneous sprints.Built & iterated rapid interactive wireframes to communicate final designs to all stakeholders while also evangelizing for prototypes in the design process (a perspective hitherto not part of the organization's mindset).

Nurtured cruciferous and root crops.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Design leader for the user experience of the CollabNet software suite, spanning nine applications delivered as an enterprise software development/ALM SaaS product.Changed issue tracker into a modern application with comprehensive UX overhaul.Designed Project Metrics, new application for team and project analytics.Set UX principles, patterns, and visual interface across the application suite for a cohesive, coherent user experience.Coordinator for cross-application usability and functionality improvements with multiple teams (product management, engineering, marketing, QA, and documentation), both on-site and across continents, and through multiple, parallel product cycles (both domestic and international releases).

Lead interaction designer of Knowledge Management and collaboration platform.Worked across entire product organization to design the feature set and UX of both the core enterprise application – Intraspect Collaboration Server – and vertical applications for specific domains.Developed, iterated, and worked with teams to implement user experience specifications, product flows, and customer-critical usability improvements.

Lead designer/information architect for design studio Verso; acquired by KPMG Consulting and reorganized into Metrius. User experience engagement lead on strategy and web projects for Fortune 500 companies, primarily B2C, B2B, and extranets.Design advocate and resource to other business units for best practices in user experience solutions and web development issues (creative and technical).Clients/projects included• Office Depot, e-commerce• Ingram Micro, b-to-b• Ingram Books, b-to-b• E.piphany; data-mining• Xircom; consumer portal and extranet• Family Education Network; consumer extranet

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Designer of web-based applications and interactive, large-scale online environments.Clients/projects included• Sony Station• Harvard Business School; on-line courseware

Lead designer and developer.

Graphic Design, Typography. Additional: Animation, Mathematics, C.S., Russian, Philosophy

Design