I am an experienced design leader. I enjoy collaborating with product management and engineering partners to deliver engaging experiences.
I believe in a strong design culture and creating the best environment for designers to have the most impact.
As a seasoned UX designer, I am versed in the full design process from ideation to brand, UX design and user research. See below for selected samples from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Office 365 and POP.
Microsoft Developer Division
As a Principal Design Manager I lead design for the Visual Studio Family.
The most comprehensive IDE for .NET and C++ developers on Windows for building web, cloud, desktop, mobile apps, services and games.
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor.
Visual Studio Education is a version of VS Code for education.
As a Design Leader on Google Cloud Platform, I led the Marketplace design team.
GCP Marketplace is a core part of the GCP Platform providing access to cloud solutions.
Amazon
As a senior design manager with AWS, I owned enterprise apps and multiple AWS services.
Amazon Chime is a communication service that integrates with Alexa for Business and is available across multiple form factors. I led my team through the launch of Amazon Chime which involved UX design, visual/brand design and marketing activities.
Meeting video in the IOS client
Chat in the IOS client
The Meeting UX on Mac client.
The Amazon Chime marketing website.
My team created Amazon Chime marketing materials for the launch.
My team created a design language for a family of enterprise apps. The new design language was applied to the WorkDocs, WorkMail and WorkSpaces apps.
The old IOS home screen
The new IOS home screen
The old IOS menu
The new IOS menu
The old IOS shared view
The new IOS shared view
The old WorkMail design.
The new WorkMail design.
The new WorkDocs My Documents screen.
The new WorkDocs Activity Feed screen.
Microsoft Office 365
As a senior design manager with Office 365, I owned the Calendar experience.
My team was responsible for the design of the Office 365 Calendar.
The calendar surface and the event peek.
The calendar surface and date picker navigation.
The event detail screen.
The tablet-optimized view.
The mobile-optimized view.
Created a calendar vision based on customer promises.
Microsoft Office
As a UX Lead for Office.com, I redesigned the Office.com website and delivered Office 2013 templates.
I owned the design and build of Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates for the Office 2013 launch.
Template selection in Word 2013.
Template selection in Excel 2013.
A template detail screen in Excel.
I led a redesign of the Office.com website.
The previous templates homepage for Office.com.
The redesigned Templates homepage.
The previous Support homepage.
The redesigned Support homepage.
POP
As UX Manager, I created engaging experiences for clients including Target, Nintendo and The Royal Albert Hall.
The Royal Albert Hall project is typical of the design strategy I employed and artifacts I created at POP. I led the user research and UX part of this project while the visual design team created the visuals and brand.
The redesigned Royal Albert Hall homepage design.
The shopping cart final design.
The event detail final design.
The site architecture diagram.
The event detail wireframe.
An analysis of traffic flow on the existing site before the redesign.
I designed and conducted a survey to understand more about the users. I analyzed the results and documented insights.
