Work History
Netflix
Senior User Experience Designer
August 2013 - Present
Ariba, an SAP company
Senior Interaction Designer
December 2012 - August 2013
Homestead
(Acquired by Endurance International Group in 2012)
Senior Interaction Designer
September 2012 - December 2012
Intuit, Inc.
Senior Interaction Designer
August 2010 - September 2012
Innovation Catalyst
February 2011 - September 2012
Interaction Designer
December 2007 - August 2010
Homestead Technologies, Inc.
(Acquired by Intuit in 2007)
User Interface Designer
August 2007 - December 2007
Design Visionaries, Inc.
Mechanical Engineering Intern
July 2006 - September 2006
Skills
Change Leadership
- Achieving shared vision, coaching design thinking, facilitating tools & multidisciplinary teams to desired outcomes
Communication
- Translates customer needs into product requirements into engineering-speak
User Experience Design (SaaS)
- Wireframes, user workflows, high- and low-fidelity mockups, functional & visual specifications, some visual design, competitor analysis, UI patterns, product principles, design thinking tools
User Research
- Contextual inquiry, user testing (design, screeners, moderation, & analysis)
Front-End Development
- A prototyper's knowledge of jQuery, CSS3, and HTML5
Visual Design
- High-fidelity mockups, iconography, icon fonts
Software
- Adobe Creative Suite; Keynote; Glyphs; Sketch; OmniGraffle; Axure; Microsoft Visio, Office Suite
Accomplishments
- Co-designed and facilitated a highly-praised “learning via experimentation” experience for ~30 global CEOs at the 2012 Global Growth Company CEO Workshop (part of the World Economic Forum), working with Scott Cook (Intuit founder) and Tim Brown (CEO of IDEO).
- Coached, presented, and taught design thinking principles and tools to ~140 participants of Intuit Fast Path I & II High Potential LEC (Leader & Expert Contributor level) leadership training programs.
- Led a ~50-person team to embrace “decision by experiment” by gathering support, coaching strategies, and modeling rapid testing behavior. Accelerated experimental-backed decisions from 0 to ~20 over 3 months, leveraging learnings to inform the business.
- Tested new approaches to first time use for core Websites product. Improvements to marketing page resulted in increase of $2.30 in MSP and $363 in MRR.
- Led holistic UX design for 2 SEO products, which are being used by 15.5% of paying customers and drive $495 MRR combined. Patents pending for one of these products & related product idea.