Hands-on Leader / Coach
Successful design and technical leadership in start-ups, large enterprise, consumer, and IT.
VMware Design Leader
- Design hiring from 30 to 200+, including architects & managers
- Led 200+ design team process, culture, research projects
- Introduced design thinking and end-to-end story framework
Splunk Design Leader
- Built cross-functional team to design security portfolio vision
- Led research on hybrid cloud services and security experience
- Led design thinking and end-to-end story workshops
IBM Design Leader
- Multiple awards for design, invention, and technical achievement
- Led company-wide design projects used by dozens of products
- First design-focused technical executive in division
Founder and CTO
- Designed mobile-first experience for social video annotation
- Coded app using Java, Android Studio and SDK tools
- Analyzed market opportunities, business case, and user testing
Founder and CXO
- Wrote award-winning business plan (Clean Tech Open 2009)
- Led design, agile UI iteration, and advisory board presentations
- Built team, angel funding, and successful exit to Nextdoor
Graduate School Lecturer
- Taught graduate courses in user-centered design at UC Berkeley
- Designed syllabus and led classes with guest start-up
- Students raved over class, special recognition from Dean
