Curriculum vitæ

Objective

I am seeking a senior or lead UI/UX/Product design position with a long-term goal towards expanding into a leadership, mentorship and management roles. I have over 10 years of experience helping shape and build successful and innovative products and servicess.. I thrive on creating  tools that empower users to change the world and how they interact within it.

Experience

Senior Product Design Manager
Avail Medsystems Inc.,, Santa Clara, CA
June 2019 – Present

• Defining and building the future of procedural presence
• Creating an end-to-end service/product from scratch
• Managing external design resources
• Inter-organizational collaboration with R&D, QA and Engineering groups

Staff UI Designer
Samsung Semiconductor Inc. SSIC/CSO Office, San Jose, CA
June 2016 – June 2019

• Defined and ideate products and features
• Evaluated and worked with teams to integrate new technologies
• Managed external UI/UX resources
• Provided design, usability and art direction
• Finalist in inaugural SSIC Inventure program

Senior UI Designer / Founding team member
Blue Jeans Network Inc., Mountain View, CA
June 2010 – May 2016

• Helped define the product requirements with product managers, engineers and executive team
• Aligned business requirements and engineering capabilities with design expectations
• Provided the initial UI/UX design direction for Blue Jeans web service
• Conducted user research with the help of customer advisory board
• Helped hire and grow design group.
• Collaborated with remote engineering groups on feature build outs.
• Delivered a comprehensive interaction and style guide for iOS and Android platforms.

Senior UI Designer
TimeBridge Inc., Berkeley, CA
October 2008 – June 2010

• Worked closely with CEO, VP and product manager to define features
• Collaborated with overseas engineering team, with weekly project updates
• Provided visual design for the revised web application
• Worked with outsourced UX researcher for user testing
• Evaluated and defined interaction models of new features for the public scheduling feature
• Designed the external third party interaction with services such as Evernote and Box.
• Led corporate identity rebranding efforts

UX Designer
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
July 2007- October 2008

• Served as the primary UI/UX designer post Google acquisition
• Worked closely with product managers and product marketing managers to define and refine service features
• Collaborated with other Google UX design team members to adopt Google visual design guidelines to the GoogleVoice service
• Worked directly with UX researchers; providing them screens to develop prototypes for testing
• Engaged my 20% time to work on a Google consumer product with an international team in Taiwan. I provided UI/UX/Visual designs to create a proof of concept that leveraged static network connected displays

Principal UI & Graphic Designer / Founding team member
GrandCentral, Fremont, CA
February 2006 - July 2007

• Worked directly with CEO, VP and Engineering team members to define the GrandCentral phone service
• Provided consumer facing design interface for web based telephony application
• Helped launch GrandCentral beta service within 6 months of joining
• Collaborated with marketing and PR group with regards to corporate graphics and messaging
• GrandCentral.com was recognized by TIME magazine as one of the top 50 websites of 2007

Contract Graphic Designer
NTT MCL, Palo Alto, CA
October - December 2005

• Worked directly with engineering to define and design a WIFI hotspot locator application for NTT
• Defined the small form factor screen layout for the background application
• Developed pixel based iconography that was used in the WIFI finder application
• Redesigned NTTMCL.com, and implemented a simple PHP based careers section

Contract Graphic Designer
Cheskin, Redwood Shores, CA
May - October 2005

• Worked closely with Cheskin marketing researchers
• Created research packages to send out to field subjects
• Helped sort and process research information
• Created high impact marketing research presentations for Cheskin’s Fortune 500 clients.

Web Designer / Partner
Launchpad Studio, San Jose, CA
2001 - 2005

• Responsible for external and internal web design projects
• Participated in design team reviews as well as project scoping
• Worked closely with clients to determine business goals and establish design direction
• Managed web project production from concept to execution
• Collaborated with outsourced development partners to assure fit and finish

Adjunct Professor
Ohlone Collage, Fremont, CA
2001

• Developed and taught entry level graphic design courses to college students
• Instituted a design approach to teaching graphic design, whereas previously an arts and crafts approach was used to teach graphic arts

Junior Graphic Designer
Nimbus Design, Redwood City, CA
1999-2000

• Assisted senior designers with concept and production
• Responsible for web related projects; from screen concepts for “startup” clients to designing and producing promotional microsites for Excite.com
• My main responsibility was to provide graphic production for print, packaging and web projects

Contractor & UI Designer Internship
FileMaker, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
1998

• Worked directly with the Senior UI Designer to create iconography for new and recently surfaced features on the FileMaker 5.0 product
• Participated in an iterative design process with UI and UX team members
• Responsible for designing the theming feature within the FileMaker 5.0 product
• Participated in user testing and research

Product Marketing Assistant
Leapfrog Lab, Inc., Fremont, CA
1997

• Conducted market competitive analysis for computer hardware offerings
• Assisted senior marketing with product planning
• Provided new product technical assistance, occasionally assisting technical support specialists

Graphic Designer
Coastcom, Alameda, CA
1996-1997

• Streamlined the collateral creation process with standardized tools and templates
• Responsible for quarterly production of corporate newsletter

Marketing Assistant Coordinator
Everex Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA
1994-1996

• Worked with senior marketing members on advertising campaigns
• Produced and designed product marketing collateral
• Provided creative direction for product photography and talent outsourcing
• Responsible for trade show coordination; coordinated trade show logistics and travel planning

Education

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

• Bachelor of Science - BS Graphic Design, 1999
• President of Graphic Design Club (NEO)

Capabilities

• HTML
• CSS
• Wireframing
• Information architecture
• Sketch
• Principle for Mac
• InVisionApp
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Fireworks
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Acrobat
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word