Building a 0->1 AI-native product.

Led a globally distributed team of designers and researchers for the Planning pillar, shaping UX strategy to align business and user needs. Embedded research and accessibility into the design process, improving usability, inclusivity, and compliance across the product suite. Established the UX vision and roadmap, ensuring strategic alignment and innovation. Guided the evolution of planning design system, aligning it with business priorities and adopting Workday’s Look & Feel to drive consistency.

Key projects: Financial Planning (Sheets, Reports & Dashboards), Intelligent Planning (Planning Assistant, Predictive Forecasting & Anomaly Detection), Workforce Planning, and new Adaptive Office and Google plugins.

Designed and improved key features of Workday Planning, including Dashboards 2.0 and Bottom-up Headcount Planning. Led interaction design efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive UX flows and prototypes from complex requirements.

Worked as lead interaction designer on several storage and data protection products. Responsibilities include defining design strategy, gathering user requirements, creating user flows, producing wireframes, prototyping and documenting user interface specifications.

Key projects: Data Protection Cloud (Storage Management and Disaster Recovery)

Designed user experiences for multiple cloud services and management products at Microsoft’s Cloud Division, leading UX from ideation to implementation. Collaborated with globally distributed teams in agile development cycles. Contributed to Windows and System Center planning by identifying UX trends, creating user scenarios, and developing storyboards.

Key Projects: Remote Desktop Android App Microsoft Azure (Big Compute) Windows 8 (PowerShell ISE, Defender) Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Manager)