* Drove product design strategy and daily operations in the core company domain of DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM)

* Collaborated with multi-region engineering groups and business leaders to translate technical requirements into effective design planning and decisions

* Utilized user research, journey mapping, and prototyping to validate concepts and translate technical business objectives into effective user experiences

* Enhanced design quality by introducing process efficiencies and regular review cycles, ensuring consistent integration of user feedback into product design phases.

* Formalized cross-functional collaboration workflows, enabling tighter alignment between product, engineering, and design teams to accelerate launch timelines and elevate user experience standards

• Provided design leadership and supported Tanzu Business development across multiple product lines (Tanzu Application Platform, Tanzu Mission Control, Tanzu Data Services, etc.)

• Led the design group through the uncertain time of acquisition and re-organization

• Managed a globally distributed design team (up to 7 designers directly)

• Improved design team maturity by implementing design processes and best practices to support agile product development

• Coached different levels of product designers for their performance and day-to-day activities

• Created an effective and connected environment for the design team to collaborate and thrive

• Collaborated with product management and engineering counterparts in daily product strategy and roadmap planning

• Contributed to Tanzu Design System and design patterns development

• Grew and built the VMware Tanzu product design teams, with a focus on the Tanzu Kubernetes Platform domain

• Managed a globally distributed design team (up to 7 designers directly)

• Establish design operations standards, such as design review, development, and delivery process, to support agile product development

• Uphold design quality for product development

• Elevate design impacts with the business leadership team

• Mentored and coached early career designers

Starting from May 2022

• Led the design teams on VMware Kubernetes Platform, such as Tanzu Mission Control, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, etc.

• Drove design roadmap with a business focus

• Mentored and coached early career designers

• Contributed to VMware Research Initiatives by recruiting target customers, and leveraging customers' feedback for product development

Starting from Jan 2021

• Led the design teams on VMware Data Product lines, including Tanzu SQL, RabbitMQ, Greenplum, etc.

• Grew and hired talented design in different regions of the world (England, China, Bulgaria)

• Create a connected Tanzu Design Community for about 100 designers

• Mentored and coached early career designers

Promoted to be the Product Design Lead for VMware Cloud on AWS product, I drove the consumption initiatives on this key service.

• Drove strategic initiatives from scratch to drive up service consumption, such as Sizing, and Migration

• Created design roadmap planning that aligned with business priorities

• Mentored and coached younger designers on the team