As part of the Leadership team at OurHive, I head up both Product & Operations at an exciting startup focused on AI-based home management tools. With concurrent apps in development for iOS & Web, I own the roadmap, partnering with CEO, CTO & Design Leadership, and set the priorities for our bi-monthly sprints, running daily scrums, creating content, owning QA & handling the program management through Asana and AirTable.

Serving as both Chief of Staff and Director of Design Operations for Experience Design at Autodesk. I run a Design Ops team to support the healthy functioning and operational excellence of a team of 80+ designers, working in close alignment with the COO Leadership team and as the right hand/partner to the VP of Experience Design. In my role, I establish systems, tools and process for multiple design and research teams, aligning resources across the organization and clearing a path for design teams to deliver on business objectives and seamless user experiences. Design program management exists as a foundational layer at the root of our processes.

Enuma creates exceptional, award-winning learning solutions that allow all children to gain confidence and independence while building foundational skills (educational and social-emotional). I joined the company as a consultant to establish production systems and design methodologies that allowed for greater efficiency, predictability, transparency and the elevation of content quality across the company’s Todo English product suite. I built the content systems, art directed the content, and hired/trained the creative team that is responsible for high quality, proven-effective learning content for early language learners aged 5-8. Later deciding to join the company as a fulltime employee, I sat at the helm of that team, developing content at scale & leading Creative Ops/Content Production, strategizing with leadership on growth opportunities for the product roadmap and development of internal talent.

I was the Head of Studio/Creative Director of the Messenger Content Team at Facebook. I oversaw production, design and development of stickers and visual effects (AR) for Messenger Camera & Stories, with a highly operationalized approach to managing internal and external creative teams. The products I led help people on Messenger tell their stories in a way that feels individualized as well as integrated into the overall brand. I established both product & publishing strategy for art-based initiatives in Messenger, and I called upon my skills as a former DPM & Executive Producer to run a creative & operational studio that excels in creative content development, data analyses & production efficiencies. I built the team and the product vision from the ground up in 2013, and scaled our efforts into a 35 person team across 3 locations (SF, Seattle, Seoul), overseeing design, production, digital asset management, deployment, technical integration, art direction, data & publishing. I am a caring people manager, with superb team-building skills and a talent for helping people grow.

As one of the first DPMs at Facebook, I built out the classic stickers product in Messenger, and established infrastructure / production process / role definitions where there were none. As a team of one, I put design standards in place, created process for identifying/onboarding artists, art-directed sticker packs and created a publishing strategy + pipeline that remains viable 5 years later. At the one year mark, I scaled the team by hiring an Art Director & a Producer, and I continue to oversee the program today as Creative Director / Head of Studio with a team of 35+ designers, producers & tech artists across 3 locations.

• Direct development and creative vision of screen-based software franchise for proprietary Leapster platform; drive innovation and protect installed base of 4M • Manage development direction and budget of $10.5M across three product lines• Provide leadership in production, design innovation and business management to team of 40+ Producers and Studio Leads• Establish strategic direction for new platform development as part of Company’s long range planning in screen-based technologies• Secure funding for resource and development through Executive Guidance Team• Partner with Marketing Teams and Business Leads to protect and expand business opportunities for LeapFrog in screen-based learning• Participate in market research and analysis of competitive product lines• Drive cross-functional “First-to-Market” creative brainstorms designed to protect Company’s position as leader in the educational handheld space