Product Design Lead, Global Insurance Innovation Group. Heading design of B2B and B2C cybersecurity SaaS applications.

• 2nd consecutive successful startup exit as founding designer. Acquired by HSB, a Munich Re company, 2021.

• Collaborating closely with international teams to design, build, launch, and update two B2B and consumer applications for desktop, tablet, and mobile, along with backoffice operations/logistics

• Spearheading continuous usability studies

• Overseeing the creation and maintenance of our design system and component library

• Brand development

• Creative direction

• Visual design

• Copywriting

Sole designer of Zeguro's Cyber Safety B2B SaaS platform pairing cyber insurance with risk management tools and services

• Synthesized customer and business needs to create highly effective, unique, easy to use, and engaging cybersecurity platform for SMBs

• Designed the direct-to-consumer (D2C) insurance underwriting and quote-to-cash (Q2C) experiences

• Accounted for disparate needs of end-insureds, underwriters, and admins

• Creative direction and brand development

• Acquired by HSB November, 2021

DataFox (acquired by Oracle in October 2018) is an AI-powered business intelligence platform that helps venture capital, sales, and marketing teams find and prioritize interesting companies.

I was the sole product designer of the platform. A notable success was the account scoring feature I designed, which was responsible for 75% of the company's ARR.

• Conducted user research, brainstorming sessions

• Created wireframes and user flows

• Built prototypes, and tested them with customers

• Established the design system

• Worked closely with PMs, founders, engineering, sales, marketing, and the customer success team to ensure our designs met customer and business needs.

• I also designed the machine learning admin portal to power our recommendations

At Kahuna, I worked closely with product management and the design team to deliver innovative designs for marketing automation across various channels such as push notifications, email, SMS, and in-app messaging. I interviewed marketing professionals, developed personas, and created wireframes and interactive prototypes.

Collaborated with the Account team to design the subscriber experience during the transition to Autodesk’s SaaS model. I created user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and prototypes. I also designed and conducted usability studies to get customer feedback on our designs.

I owned the design of Climate's (now Bayer) parametric crop insurance platform, starting at zero. I conducted extensive user research, and collaborated closely with the product, engineering, strategy, and design teams. We built a successful ag insurance platform that accounted for the various needs of agents, claims adjusters, end-insureds, underwriters, sales, and customer success, and integrated with a complex IoT platform for enterprise farmers.

Worked closely with customers, and across teams, to ensure seamless, engaging and usable experiences for Cimate's IoT crop insurance and agronomy platforms.

User research and design. Rapid prototyping and user testing.

As a freelance designer I worked with top-notch clients...

• At AtHoc (now Blackberry), I helped design the emergency mass notification platform that is used by the U.S. Air Force

• Collaborated with the team at The Climate Corporation (now Bayer) to build crop insurance and IoT platforms for farmers

• At Cisco I designed enterprise collaboration and consumer telepresence platforms.

• I worked with the Microsoft Office for Mac team to create interactive prototypes for usability testing.

• The Wall Street Journal had their largest number of hits to date on their website thanks to my interactive map of the invasion of Iraq.

• Janet Jackson loved the motion graphics I did for her website.

• I single-handedly redesigned the J.Crew website.

• I designed the Intel Pentium Processor product launch.

At AtHoc (acquired by Blackberry), I collaborated with the executive, product management, engineering, marketing, and design teams to build the emergency alerting system used by the U.S. Air Force.

• Interviewed users and SMEs, created personas and scenarios

• Interaction design

• Wireframes and user flows

• Visual design

• Prototyping in HTML/Javascript and After Effects

• Created pattern and component libraries

While with Cisco’s Collaboration Business Technologies business unit, I designed applications for enterprise social media and collaboration.

• Wireframes and prototypes

• Designed usability studies

• Drafted business proposals

At Microsoft, I worked as part of the Office for Mac team, collaborating closely with design leads, product managers, and researchers.

• Produced functional prototypes and mockups

• Built interactive help modules for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

UX design for Cisco's consumer telepresence system. Collaborated with industrial and interaction designers. Created wireframes, user flows, and prototypes.

I built, and helped design, the SAP platform demo that was shown at Sapphire, their annual user conference.

Worked with the creative team on major advertising campaigns for Microsoft. Designed and built websites, ad banners, and pitches. Worked closely with ECDs, CDs, ADs, copywriters, and video editors to create impactful, inspiring, and memorable experiences.

Sole interactive designer at Newsweek. As part of the Sales and Marketing group, I created engaging, and effective interactive experiences leveraging animation, video, and original music.

Designed, developed, and illustrated interactive news features, including coverage of the invasion of Iraq. Worked with editors and journalists to clearly and elegantly communicate breaking news stories.

Designed product launches, interactive demos, iconography, and marketing collateral using an array of software and techniques.