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December 2021

Education

Harvard University, Extension School

Master of Liberal Arts, Digital Media Design

Degree Candidate

Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Visualization, Game Development, 3D Animation and VR

2020 - Present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Product Development

2010 - 2014

Nielson Norman Group

Master Certificate in User Experience

Specialty recognition in UX Management

February 2022

UX Master Certification Badge

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum with User Experience I

January 2021

Scrum.org Badge

Tableau

Tableau Designer

Tableau Desktop

July 2020

Tableau Designer Badge

Nielson Norman Group

UX Certification (UXC)

UX Management Specialty

September 2019

UX Certification Badge

Adobe

Adobe Certified Expert

Illustrator

CS6, CC 2015, CC 2016

Adobe Illustrator Certified Expert Badge

Amazon Web Services

10 mos

UX Design Manager

Analytics

May 2022 - Present • 10 mos

  • Leading Amazon OpenSearch Service, Redshift, and Amazon Athena.

Salesƒorce

2 yrs 9 mos

Director of Product Design

Platform, Developer Experience

August 2021 - May 2022 • 10 mos

  • Scaling the design teams supporting the Salesforce Platform’s Developer Experience.

Senior Design Manager

Platform, Work.com

August 2020 - August 2021 • 1 yr

  • Led the user experience and product design teams building Salesforce’s Work.com suite of Employee Experience products and IT Services.

Lead Product Designer

Platform, Work.com

September 2019 - August 2020 • 1 year

  • Managed the end-to-end design and launch of Work.com Workplace Command Center to help businesses and communities reopen safely.
  • Accelerated the development of Work.com solutions with Scrum principles and UX, enabling organizations to reopen safely and manage the logistics of returning to work.

    Heroku

    Lead Product Designer

    Platform, Developer Experience

    September 2019 - August 2020 • 1 year

    • Led the developer preview and release of Salesforce Functions, Serverless Functions (FaaS) and Compute for Customer 360 Platform.
    • Improved the accessibility of Heroku's atomic CSS library Purple3, and icon system Malibu.

      Eximchain

      1 yr 11 mos

      Head of Design

      November 2017 - September 2019

      • Shaped entire customer experience of product ecosystem at early stage blockchain startup.
      • Guided the creation of brand,​ marketing​ and​ front-end design system,​ ​enabling clearer communication and collaboration between designers and developers.
      • Directed the design, agile development and launch of a consumer blockchain network mobile app and desktop cryptocurrency wallet along with support infrastructure and marketing website.
      • Coordinated all user research initiatives with IDEO (Cambridge) to find unseen opportunities for innovation.
      • Partnered with design researcher, visual and business designer to translate findings into opportunity areas and actionable human-centered solutions.

      Tulip Interfaces

      2 yrs 8 mos

      Head of Design

      April 2015 - November 2017

      • First design hire, responsible for building brand identity and design team, facilitating design processes and iteratively improving enterprise SaaS platform interactions.
      • Managed product design and brand strategy across hardware, software and marketing teams to successfully complete a $1M seed round and $13M series A led by NEA.
      • Simplified and digitized complex operational manufacturing processes into elegant user interfaces for Fortune 500 customers including GSK, Merck, Jabil, and New Balance.
      • Organized and implemented the responsive redesign of our marketing website from investor facing to go-to-market strategy, allowing engineering team to focus on feature development.
      • Introduced a front-end design system that utilized reusable components to accelerate our prototyping and development process.

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

      3 yrs 6 mos

      Teaching Assistant

      July 2014 - January 2015 • 8 mos

      • Coordinated ideation, low/high fidelity mockup, prototype, and launch milestones for product design and engineering capstone course.
      • Advised student teams with understanding design thinking, human-centered design principles, and product development process fundamentals.

      Senior Visual Designer

      September 2011 – June 2014 • 2 yrs 10 mos

      • Directed designers and webmaster to create digital and print media that promoted the ideals of MIT’s Women’s & Gender Studies, including support for gender, racial, sexual and social equality.

      CICATA

      User Experience Designer

      June 2013 - August 2013 • 3 mos

      • Designed a haptic belt with integrated depth sensors and machine vision to replace walking canes for the blind as a part of a graduate PhD research initiative in machine learning.
      • Organized user interviews and translated insights into a more compact, ergonomic body with increased performance of embedded systems.

      DET

      Information Designer

      June 2012 - August 2012 • 3 mos

      • Generated python scripts to automate typographic styling and creation processes, accelerating the workflow of information design students enrolled in Diplomado en Tipografía (Diseño de Fuentes Digitales).
      • Translated and modified python tutorials for typography design curriculum.

      Volunteering

      MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

      7 yrs

      Mentor, Product Design

      Fall 2014 - Fall 2020

      • Mentored senior undergraduate students through the product strategy, design, and development lifecycle.

      Skills

      Product Design, UX/UI Design, Visual Design, User Research, Usability Testing, Design Systems, Mobile and Responsive Web Design, Wireframing, Mockups, Prototyping, Scrum and Agile Methodologies, Front-End Development, Data Visualization, 3D Modeling and Printing, Game Development, AR & VR

      Tools

      Abstract, Figma, Framer, Sketch, Invision, Miro, Whimsical, Affinity Designer, Adobe CS, HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, ReactJS, React Native, NextJS, Git, Github, Jira, AWS, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Tableau, D3.JS, Unity, Blender