ABOUT

20

Years

Designing

15

Years

Managing

21

People

Size of Teams

I'm a seasoned design leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling high-performing design teams, driving impactful design solutions, and shaping market-leading products. Strong focus on creating user-centric and innovative experiences for enterprise, solving complex problems for technical users.

Experience

Benchling

Head of Design - 2019 - 2024

At Benchling, we built solutions to accelerate life sciences. Our customers are changing the world in the areas including medicine, food, fuel, and fabrics and we helped them deliver them much faster. Building a team from scratch, I initially operated as lead designer and design recruiter for several months (during the early days of the pandemic). In addition to delivering initial solutions for analytics and recipes, I eventually built a multi-pillar, hierarchical design team that was frequently recognized for their excellence and helped Benchling attain a 99% retention rate.

Elementum

Head of Design - 2016 - 2019

Elementum provided a platform to help customers deliver products faster by providing end-to-end visibility and incident management to their multi-partner supply chains. As we grew from 150 to 1000 employees, I was responsible for scaling the design team and the systems and processes within the Build organization. I also help architect the product transition from visibility into Incident Management.

Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE)

Head of Design - 2012 - 2016

As a founding member of the Design team, I helped our data storage customers deploy, deliver and protect their customer's mission critical data. As part of a small team, I operated as both player and coach owning critical enterprise features in areas of data protection, user management and application performance. I was part of a team that disrupted a legacy industry and was grateful to see the company IPO in 2014.

Netapp Inc.

UX Architect - 2010 - 2012

As a founding member of the Design team, I helped Netapp envision how customers could manage their storage appliances at scale across multiple geographies. I operated as both player and coach owning critical enterprise features in areas of data protection and observability.

Oracle Corporation

Senior Design Manager / Principle Engineer - 1998 - 2010

My career at Oracle began as a software engineer, designing and building software for application translation, upgrades and patching. Bringing an application maintenance solution to market exposed me to the world of usability and the User Experience team. After transitioning to user experience in 2006, I helped re-platform all of Oracle Applications onto the Fusion suite. As part of that effort, I co-led the Fusion Design System delivering over 100 patterns and guidelines to application designer and developers. I was also the lead liaison between UX and Engineering building a pattern-back UI architecture to accelerate development.