I provide mentorship, workshops and lectures on various design topics serving students at the Berkeley Master of Design program and the broader design community at the University of California, Berkeley.

Developed mobile user interfaces, storyboards and speculative concepts exploring new mobile and physical experiences for Microsoft Research Premonition.

I joined as the inaugural and founding team helping to launch the new design program at UC Berkeley.In my role as Special Projects and later Operations Manager, I established systems from the ground up to support over 1,500 students each semester in utilizing our design courses, programs and facilities including our state of the art makerspace and prototyping labs.

BearExtender makes long-range Wi-Fi products helping people get better signal everywhere.• Designed all product packaging including retail units and accessories.• Managed Product Development and teams including working with OEMs.• Grew a single product into a line of seven distinct models targeted for different customer bases. • Assembled and directed teams for all stages of product development including product definition, prototyping, testing, regulatory certification, mass production, distribution and marketing.• Managed contract manufactures, vendors and suppliers in Taiwan and Shenzhen, China.• Achieved #10 Amazon Best Sellers Rank in Network Adapter category.

ChronoZoom is a free online tool for visualizing all of time, from the Big Bang to the present day.• Directed and hired a team of eleven UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students.• Coordinated development using the agile method with engineers at Microsoft Research.• Worked closely with Microsoft Research Education and Scholarly Communication teams to perform developer outreach at conferences and campus events.• Won the 2013 SXSW Interactive Award and 2012 Center for Digital Education Award.http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chronozoom/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChronoZoom

I co-founded Microsoft Research ChronoZoom at UC Berkeley with Professor Alvarez.• Pioneered a new method of visualizing 13.8 billion years using Microsoft DeepZoom technology.• Established partnership, relationship and secured funding with Microsoft Research through collaboration with UC Berkeley Office of Industry Research Alliances department.• Presented at the 97th Annual UC Berkeley Faculty Research lecture with Professor Alvarez.