Oracle · Principal, Opower ux
08/2019 – present | San Francisco, CA

Our mission: To motivate everyone, everywhere, to use less energy (electricity, water, gas, solar, EV) by leveraging excellent user experience that is grounded in design behavioral principles, and informed and tested with qualitative and quantitative research. https://ux.opower.com

Thomson Reuters · Senior UX Architect
Digital Identity
08/2017 – 2019 | San Francisco, CA

Digital Identity at Thomson Reuters was a team that worked on a visionary product for a tokenized digital identity platform for financial institutions

• Responsibilities: Led the user experience and design of the web, mobile, and kiosk experiences of the Digital Identity platform. Created user-centric solutions through thorough product exploration, discovery, experimentation, test and iterate, and development. Actively collaborated with product, engineering, architect, business strategy, and leadership.

Thomson Reuters · Lead Design and UX
Applied Innovation

08/2014 – 08/2017 | San Francisco, CA

Applied Innovation is a lab at Thomson Reuters that worked with internal teams and their customers to create business opportunities, innovative solutions, and use cases focusing on emerging technologies - machine learning, AI, virtual reality, IoT

• Responsibilities: Led the user experience and design of product solutions for different business units including: Reuters, Eikon, Legal, Tax & Accounting, Financial & Risk, and Thomson Reuters Foundation. Facilitated and organized design sprint workshops to identify new business opportunities. Led, facilitated, and synthesized user research

Bloomberg LP · Senior Designer
Digital Design
12/2010 – 8/2014 | New York, NY

Bloomberg LP is mostly known for its Terminal – a platform that provides financial data that is as robust as its platform – the company also mans a TV network, a handful of publications, websites, digital products, etc.

• Responsibilities: Led the user experience and design of product editorial solutions for the digital properties

• Noteworthy: I was part of the collaborative team that led on the Businessweek.com redesign in 2010, Bloomberg.com redesign in 2013. I led the design for the Bloomberg Queue in 2011, redesign of Businessweek’s Business Schools in 2012

kikin · Lead Designer
4/2010 – 12/2010 | New York, NY

kikin is a browser plugin that brings users personalized content, providing a more enjoyable and enhanced user experience on the web.

• Responsibilities: Designing new product features and updating and improving the user interface in collaboration with product, engineering, and leadership

Housing Works + C2EA · designer, Contractor
2/2010 – 4/2010 | New York, NY

Housing Works is an organization committed to ending the twin crises of AIDS and homelessness. C2EA is a partnered campaign and coalition to fight AIDS.

• Responsibilities: Conceptualize and implement a redesign of the web experience

Etsy · UI Designer
2/2009 – 2/2010 | New York, NY

Etsy is one of the world's most vibrant handmade, vintage and supplies marketplaces.

• Responsibilities: Designing new product features and updating and improving the user interface in collaboration with product, engineering, and leadership 

• Projects included: Designing/redesigning product features, improving the user interface and experience, creating and translating a cohesive branding style along the site and creating exploratory design concepts for new product features. I also worked on small marketing projects -- email newsletters, print ads and landing pages.

Paltalk · Design Lead
7/2006 – 2/2009 | New York, NY

Paltalk video chatting social network. It is the largest video chat service in the world with 4 million active users.

• Responsibilities: Art directing, design and concept, mentoring designers, co-leading the design department. 

• Projects included: Redesigning the homepage, redesigning and implementing the front-end of the search feature, designing a schedule guide for the Paltalk shows for the desktop application, designing and implementing landing pages, email newsletters, designing and developing micro sites.