Seattle, WA / Kelso, WA / Sacramento, CA 


Business and Product Development Consultant

LiveDepth is a product of me having run a successful design company for 20 years paired with my 20 year career in UX design and Product Development as well as everything in-between. I have a deep understanding of developing software in agile environments and a passion for product marketing. Layered on top of that is years of developing my skill sets and equipment arsenal in developing content… via motion graphics and videography. I seamlessly can leverage live events and product marketing into content that sells whatever you are promoting.

(Remote - NY,NY)

Sr. User Experience Designer

I was added to the DXD team as they initiated a huge new 5 year long effort to redesign the entire team’s sales experience from using old and outdated powerpoint demos to a cutting edge sales platform - a series of SAAS applications with more powerful estimators that are connected to real-time data. With an aggressive timeline and a brand new team of UXers, I was brought on to lead the creation of our Material Design based design system library.

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Figma.

• Responsible for the U-Tech series of Premium Estimator applications.

• Responsible for creating a new HUB design for a separate USI business team while leveraging our U-Tech design standards.

• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of our U-Tech Design System

Sr. Product Developer

The AWS - Connect team is focused on solving the problem of the soon to be decommissioned concept of browser “cookies” as well as the enforcing of more stringent rules around the sharing of PII data. With a layer of artificial intelligence on top, I was brought on to head up the UX for this new AWS service application focusing on Identity resolution which will bring together different siloed data sets of consumers personal data, and consolidate them into one set of consolidated and complete sets of consumer data.
 

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Figma.

• Responsible for the overall UX direction of the AWS service application built using the Polaris design system. 

• Set up several recurring focus groups and usability sessions with key enterprise clients such as Trip Advisor, Best Western and Thompson Reuters.

• Designed this entire application within a very aggressive time schedule of 3 months.

• This new AWS service launched into Beta on March 31st, 2023. 

I was hired to lead the UX for Williams Sonoma’s Order Tracking and Management Systems. I am now leading a lean team of two Sr. UXers to roll out a fully responsive application leveraging Material Design components and principles. I have built and and continue to evolve the CCUI Design Pattern Component Library. 

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Figma.

• Responsible for integrating Williams Sonoma’s legacy tracking software into their new platform. 

• Built and maintained the Design Pattern Library for CCUI library.

• Designed and maintained the CCUI Human Interface Guidelines (CCUI HIG) for all CCUI user interface standards. 

• Designed a new Global Alerts & Notifications system for CCUI.

Remote - Redmond, WA

I joined C+AI Data Integration team with the objective to improve the Power Query application with new feature rollouts and to help drive Corporate consistency by aligning with Microsoft’s Fluent component libraries. In Jan of 2021 I moved over to the Dynamics for Microsoft team as the Lead designer for OneSupport. 

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Figma.

• Responsible for various features currently being developed for Power Query & OneSupport. 

• Designed the UX for Common Data Model CDM designer. 

• Supported 7 project managers who specialize in different areas of our Data integration workflows. 

• Supported 10 project managers helping them develop their features in OneSupport. 

Seattle, WA

Amazon’s objective was to redesign the content curation platform. My job was to design the tools used to curate content for the Prime Video online with "zero touch" fully automated publishing as a Prime Directive. This means adding that layer of AI to auto populate data entry.

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Figma.

• Responsible for the overall UX direction of Prime Video backend tooling for their catalog. 

• Set up a more defined Usability testing process including Gemba, Pre-Dev Prototyping, and UAT. 

• Created a more unified strategy to roll out multiple tooling projects with one common Design Pattern Library. 

• Created our Operator Central Human Interface Guide and monthly UX & Tooling Newsletter to internally evangelize. 

• Designed and integrated all UX components specific to Operator Central into Amazon’s Meridian Design Component Library.

• Defined out UX team process, project tracking & archiving, leveraging Amazon’s internal tools. 

Bellevue, WA

Information Architect & Usability Specialist focused on a major redesign of the industry leading legal accounting software called Legal Tracker. 

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Sketch/InVision – Figma.

• Led development team in major redesign of industry leading legal, accounting software; Legal Tracker. 

• Managed aggressive timeline completing heuristic evaluation of the application, led focus groups with clients thereby developing recommendations for enhancements and improvements. 

• Designed a clickable sales prototype built in inVision featuring forward thinking designs. 

• Created a more unified strategy to roll out multiple tooling projects across the entire Legal division of Thomson Reuters with one common Design Pattern Library. 

Remote - Seattle, WA

Information Architect in which the primary focus was on usability testing and surveys, building prototypes and performing the testing, as well as using the data to create new and improved designs. 

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Sketch

• Led usability testing and surveys, building prototypes and performing the testing. 

• Ran development of new data-driven concepts and designs. 

• Directed 3rd party consultants in usability testing, inventing new areas of testing. 

• Led sales team intranet improvements using internal survey data and grass roots 1:1 interviews. 

• Usability improvements included increasing enterprise leads capture by 22% resulting in increased deal closings. 

Seattle, WA

I was instrumental in the initial conceptualization of Playmation - a new line of wearables, connected toys, and apps that use Bluetooth wireless technology, cloud computing, and the voices of Marvel characters to immerse players in an augmented reality battle between superheroes and supervillains. 

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Sketch/InVision

• My role was the critical link between Glendale, CA creative group and Seattle based technology group. 

• Developed work flow diagrams and process flow charts to guide teams with change management. 

• Successfully navigated a secret project that was extremely ambiguous and first of its kind. 

• Led conceptualization of initial project, mapped all development plans and documentation work. 

Information Architect specializing in developing Rhapsody’s core music application as well as a family of products - bringing them to market. Focused on a lead position specializing in the Android mobile platform. Helped develop a single unified code base. 

• Wire-framing and Prototyping tool: Sketch/InVision

• Developed core music application and led go to market strategies for family of products. 

• Integrated Napster into Rhapsody product easily with the Design Pattern Library I had created. 

• Facilitated featured Rhapsody & MTV video content to all our products on the web platform, IOS and Android phones & tablets. 

• Directed team of developers on major overhaul and several releases of our core application and its cloud services. 

• Pioneered auto integration with BMW and Ford. Drove Rhapsody concert application and developed car mode. 

Sr. User Experience Designer
Redmond, WA

Information Architect tasked with leading the effort to integrate new features within the Microsoft Tag mobile client. I was part of the Startup Business Group which incubates early development of breakthrough technologies until they are adopted into the marketplace. We developed the initial image matching data platform that has become the very nucleus of Bing’s AI capabilities. Responsibilities were to develop business requirement documentation at a high level in the early stages of concepting, working directly with developers to push this new technology into the marketplace. 

• Key member of Startup Business Group incubating early stage, breakthrough technologies until they are adopted into the marketplace. 

• Led integration of new features within the Microsoft Tag mobile client for Startup Business Group. 

• Developed business requirement documentation at a high level in the early stages of concepting, working directly with developers to push this new technology into the marketplace.