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California, United States

Founded a small e-commerce corporation, gaining hands-on experience in the business world, while providing consulting services to a diverse range of companies.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

• Structured, recruited, and budgeted for 70+ talented and culturally diverse Designers, Researchers & Writers.• Steered the team through market volatility during COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on delivering user-friendly product experiences across consumer and enterprise ecosystem on a global scale.• Executed a multinational platform redesign to unlock business potential in various markets.Responsibilities:• Redefine responsibilities, focus areas and the work quality bar for each function within UED team.Optimize UED resources and budget structure with cost efficiency and sustainable team development in mind.• Recruit and ramp up a multinational team located in China, France and Spain, while building cultural empathy and fostering an International friendly team culture.• Drive team collaborations across business units to navigate through a complex product roadmap and timeline.• Identify experience opportunities, lead design strategy, and contribute to overall product planning. Deliver creative design solutions and prototypes, advocate across business teams, and implement from end to end.• Establish design, user research, and content guidelines for consistent experience evaluation and deliverables.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led and scaled LinkedIn Segments UED team, to collaborate with cross-functional R&D teams to commit to innovative product solutions that aligning with business strategy. • Covered the emerging markets, including mid-skill & frontline workers, youth, and specific countries like Japan, Germany, India, and China. • Oversaw LinkedIn product customization platform to enable global business scaling. Responsibilities:• Build and coach a team of designers with multicultural backgrounds. • Drive a team of designers to deliver innovative and holistic solutions across multiple horizontal markets and complex user journey.• Collaborate with cross functional partners to define and execute on product strategy and roadmaps from end to end.• Manage the product development/collaboration process with the focus of work quality, effectiveness and efficiency.• Balance and allocate resources to support business scale across multiple product lines simultaneously.• Work with LinkedIn executives to create and prototype conceptual product solutions that shape future product directions.Past Roles / Projects:• Senior Design Manager - LinkedIn International Design Team, covering China, Japan, Germany & India • Design Manager - China Design team• Design Lead - China Design Team• Senior Designer - US Mid-skill Worker Training Search / Higher Education Entities / Security Content Reporting System / InMap Re-imagination• User Experience Designer - International (Germany & India) + Product Incubation Support

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Hands-on design of GE smart home appliances, with the focus of product incubation and development. Lead design interns to deliver end to end solutions from user research, concept development and prototyping, to implementation.

Greater New York City Area

R/GA Johnson & Johnson team is a part of R/GA New York design team. R/GA is a full-service agency for the digital age. It helps some of the world’s most recognized brands connect with consumers. I was responsible for Johnson & Johnson Acuvue global web redesign, and also participated in diverse projects for client pitching, including L'Oreal, Ritz Crackers, Capital One, A&F, etc.

Beijing City, China

• Be responsible of Bing rebranding for Japan, Korea and China markets.• Define design principles and guidelines to enable cross markets consistency.• Deliver design of Bing global news search from concepts to implementation.• Incubate and execute on APAC specific products, including map search, smart results and image search.• Remotely coach & manage Japan designer on various APAC specific projects.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Lead visual design on desktop software products, including QQ and QQ Calendar.• Deliver high quality visual design solutions in various areas, including illustration, iconography, promotional assets, design system, and company branding strategy.• Be responsible of the day-to-day project management in diverse scopes.• Drive cross-team collaboration on implementation and quarterly product launch.• Coach entry level designers and design interns.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Design And Technology

Research on Digital Product Design, study in programming and motion graphics, while freelancing for diverse projects and startups.

Bachelor, Graphic Design

Study in Graphic Design program on the skills in Branding Design, Printing, Book Design, Type Design, Package Design, and so forth.