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Lynnwood, WA, US

After 30 years, pausing and choosing my next role with care. Open to inquiries and ready to start on short notice for the right fit.

San Francisco, California, US

• Led design team of 4 at Series C startup through an audience pivot from business users to data engineers.
• Designed and shipped features that increased low- and no-code content creation over 300%
• Developed and implemented product OKRs and dashboards to monitor them
• For company relaunch, redesigned website and brand system and prototyped platform and framework features

Seattle, WA, US

• Transformed complex business opportunities and technology into features and products that real people can use. Expert in principles and psychology of interactive data visualization.
• Shipped AI data insights in 2019–20, ahead of modern AI revolution. Defined language model training requirements. Solved long-standing technical block in interactive charts. Advocated for and saw implementation of.
• Designed new product for graph analytics, a pilot project. Did customer research to drive executive ship decision. Researched, prototyped, and developed core UX loop to make visual graph analytics accessible to.
• Added new chart types while simplifying the building experience by redesigning the literal center of the Tableau tool. Collaborated with CDO to deep dive into VizQL engine and map more of its operation into the UX.
• Created and taught sessions on data visualization and software design New Employee Onboarding at both the company and division level. Delivered talks that so successful that the Sales and Marketing teams adopted them.

Seattle, WA, US

• Through Tableau’s hypergrowth to $1B, built the design team and drove product strategy through design. Created a team culture centered on diversity, talent, and respect. Coached, listened to, and fostered brilliant.
• Hired UX Design team up from 4 to 40 people while the company grew from 250 to 2,500 and had an IPO.
• Built a diverse team: majority non-male, from every continent (except Antarctica), with equally diverse leadership.
• Led design work with company-wide impact: launched a design system; shipped 3 new products across mobile, desktop, and SaaS platforms; and commissioned the world’s first font optimized for interactive data viz.
• Wrote design principles, then made them happen with an interdisciplinary review and crit system that both taught and enforced them.

US

• Co-founded 82 Protons, a bespoke design/build studio creating beautiful and useful mobile and web apps
• Led business and portfolio, growing company to $500k in annual revenue.
• Created a scalable operation by building a pool of engineering contractors.
• Hands-on UX and visual design and full-stack software engineering
• Shipped for a diverse portfolio of clients in healthcare, arts, spirituality, and personal development.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Twelve years (1991–96, 2001–08) designing innovative UX, managing projects, working across divisions, and presenting to large audiences.
• 0–1 products: MSN (the dial-up service), Windows Tablet PC, HealthVault consumer health data tracking, Amalga healthcare enterprise software, and Team Manager resource management
• Other projects: Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Microsoft Project

US

Alive.com, which I co-founded and was acquired by Loudeye, created a suite of web-based multimedia presentation creation and hosting tools, including Alive eShow, Alive eShow Server and AliveCentral.com. Co-founded this internet startup, grew it to 40 employees and sold to Loudeye in April 2000. Led teams handling product strategy, user experience designs.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

Co-founder of Cognisoft, later acquired by Verity as the beginning of their Applications Division. Cognisoft created Verity IntelliServ, a personalized information portal application for intranets, which shipped in summer 1997.Developed product vision and strategy. Designed and developed the web-based user experience. Served as the technical expert for.

Computer Science

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