I design human-centered digital experiences for enterprise SaaS, Salesforce/CRM platforms, analytics tools, and social impact products. With 15+ years of experience, I translate complex challenges into intuitive, scalable solutions grounded in research, UX strategy, and design systems.
Experience
2014 — 2024
2014 — 2024
• Led end-to-end design for enterprise platforms, partnering with engineering, product, and
executive teams to deliver scalable solutions serving 100K+ users.
• Redesigned CIO Design website information architecture, improving navigation and
content discovery through iterative design and usability testing.
• Established design system and brand guidelines for multi-platform website redesign,
ensuring visual consistency across touchpoints.
• Audited 50+ Salesforce Analytics dashboards, developed consistency rating
methodology, and implemented strategic improvements with development teams.
• Directed CIO Design intern program, mentoring cross-functional teams in design
thinking and collaborative workflows to build platform solutions.
• Optimized IBM.com eCommerce user journeys through data-driven design
improvements across devices, enhancing customer purchasing experience.
• Designed location-enabled case management platform for Mexico's Ministry of Family
Affairs via IBM Corporate Service Corps, creating user flows to track and prevent child
violence.
Key Accomplishments:
• Reduced system complexity by 24% by transforming CIO Design website information
architecture, improving navigation and content discovery.
• Streamlined website structure by 86% (from 92 pages to 13) through comprehensive
design strategy and information architecture optimization, enhancing user engagement
and visual consistency.
• Directed design process for platform serving 250,000+ users, leading cross-functional
team and establishing design guidelines that improved efficiency and accelerated product
delivery cycles.
• Implemented design process innovations including A/B testing protocols and end-to-end
UX review frameworks, reviewing 300+ digital communications to enhance user
experience.
• Optimized 8 critical user journeys for IBM.com eCommerce platform, implementing
prototyping and iterative design processes that measurably enhanced customer
purchasing experience.
2007 — 2014
2007 — 2014
San Jose, California, United States
• Developed design systems that standardized components across product portfolios,
accelerating development and reducing complexity.
• Directed design for 4 mobile database monitoring applications, driving cross-functional
collaboration to create reusable design patterns.
• Created and maintained visual design guidelines that enhanced product cohesion and user
experience across multiple platforms, improving release efficiency and overall product
quality.
• Conducted extensive user research studies with 100+ participants including multi-day
usability sandbox sessions at large conferences, directly informing product strategy and
design decisions.
Key Accomplishments:
• Increased user satisfaction by 8% through scalable design systems that improved visual
consistency and reduced development time by establishing reusable component libraries.
• Reduced design and development time by 20% while leading strategic mobile application
design initiatives, creating reusable patterns that accelerated product delivery.
• Decreased development defects by 10% through comprehensive visual design guidelines
that enhanced product cohesion and release efficiency across enterprise platforms.
Education
San José State University
Master of Science - MS
University of California, Santa Cruz