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Honolulu, Hi, Us

Kai Hana is contemporary art and craft — rooted in Hawaiian and Japanese traditions. www.kaihana.art

Arlington, Va, Us

Responsibilities include: leading teams designing iPad apps for flight based needs of airline pilots and maintenance technicians; developing research processes, refining key design workflows, maintaining Apple HIG and Google Material Design standards, interviewing product users, identifying/tracking customer metrics, onboarding UX designers; leading remote collaboration with product, BA, technical and QA teams to optimize Agile process performance; conducting in-field design tests with prospective customers including ANA in Japan and Alaska Airlines in Seattle as well as remotely with various others such as China Airlines and Aeromexico.

Hired, trained and managed distributed, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver AI based apps, chatbots, SaaS products; designed data-intensive dashboards, MVPs, native iOS apps, web apps, illustrations and brand identity; created curricula for own “Empathy-Driven Framework” for innovation, problem solving and entrepreneurship; facilitated Design Sprints and Design Thinking workshops with 700+ corporate and academic attendees.

Developed proprietary motion capture techniques used to create Web apps featuring 100+ rehab animations; recruited and trained creative team incl. UX/UI designers, 3D animators and digital marketing/sales people; customized patient education apps for clients incl. Johnson & Johnson/DePuy, Stryker, Genzyme, Biomet; helped raise multiple rounds of funding from investors and assemble a distinguished board of medical advisors.

Created a nonprofit community youth sports program for 2,200+ kids supported by 300+ adult and teen volunteers; designed and developed a Web and print-based sports training app used weekly by 800+ parents and coaches.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Provided UX research and design for MS Office Labs software projects for products including new Surface hardware; created customer journeys, competitive analyses, persona specifications, user flows, user testing processes; designed Xbox interactive prototypes and conducted usability testing for console and PC based UI designs; implemented Scenario Focused Engineering methods in ongoing developer and researcher collaboration.

Led consulting on user-centered design projects for clients incl. Nike, AT&T Wireless, Motorola, Pearl Drums; created innovation workshops with 250+ attendees for Seattle Public Schools, Seattle Academy, Ashoka; awarded "Outstanding Achievement in Website Development" for Densho educational Web app project funded by National Endowment for the Arts and US-Japan Foundation.

Computer Engineering

Certificate, Virtual Reality And Augmented Reality

International Business