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Education

  • Present

    Harvard University

    Master of Liberal Arts, Digital Media Design (Degree Candidate)
    Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Visualization, Web Development

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Certifications

  • February 2022

    Nielson Norman Group

    Master Certificate in User Experience (Specialty Recognition in UX Management)

  • January 2021

    Scrum.org

    Professional Scrum with User Experience I

  • July 2020

    Tableau

    Tableau Designer

  • September 2019

    Nielson Norman Group

    UX Certification (UXC)

  • CS6, CC 2015, CC 2016

    Adobe

    Adobe Certified Expert (Adobe Illustrator)

Experience

  • May 2022 - Present

    Amazon Web Services

    UX Design Manager III

    Leading the UX teams for Amazon OpenSearch Service, Redshift, and Amazon Athena.

  • August 2021 - May 2022

    Salesforce

    Director of Product Design

    Scaling the design teams supporting the Salesforce Platform Developer Experience.

  • August 2020 - July 2021

    Salesforce

    Senior Design Manager

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

  • September 2019 - August 2020

    Heroku

    Lead Product Designer

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

  • November 2017 - September 2019

    Exim

    Head of Design

    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.

  • April 2015 - November 2017

    Tulip

    Head of Design

    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.

  • September 2011 - January 2015

    MIT

    Teaching Assistant

    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. Managed 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.

Volunteering

  • 2020

    Out in Tech

    Professional Mentor

    Out in Tech is a non-profit that unites the LGBTQ+ tech community. We do this by creating opportunities for our 30,000 members to advance their careers, grow their networks, and leverage tech for social change.

  • 2014 - 2020

    MIT

    Product Design Mentor

    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 Science, Data Visualization, 3D Modeling and Printing, Game Development, AR & VR, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

Tools

  • Figma, Framer, Sketch, Abstract, Invision, Miro, Whimsical, Affinity Designer, Adobe Creative Cloud, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, React.js, React Native, Next.js, D3.JS, Git, Github, Jira, AWS, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Tableau, Unity, Blender