Staff UX designer with an engineering background, focused on designing for complex, data-dense enterprise and security products. Partners closely with cross‑functional teams to turn ambiguous problems into clear, effective user centered experiences.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Leading UX strategy and execution for the next evolution of Threat Protection Workbench, a flagship platform defining the future of enterprise email security.
• Own end-to-end UX for a data‑dense, responsive cybersecurity workbench at the core of Proofpoint’s threat protection portfolio, balancing analyst efficiency, clarity, and scale.
• Drive the full design lifecycle—from opportunity framing, UX strategy, and qualitative research through interaction design, prototyping, validation, and production delivery.
• Partner cross‑functionally with engineering, product, marketing, and executive leaders to influence the roadmap, align on vision, and translate complex security workflows into cohesive product experiences.
• Deliver user‑centered solutions that improve detection workflows and decision confidence while advancing key business goals such as adoption, retention, and expansion.
• Serve as lead designer on a fast‑paced, high‑impact team, mentoring designers through critiques, pairing sessions, and design reviews to raise the overall quality bar.
2021 — 2024
2021 — 2024
Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Led UX for the TAP Dashboard product, owning end-to-end feature definition, design, and delivery.
• Prototyped critical flows at high velocity to validate concepts with users and de-risk roadmap decisions.
• Designed Proofpoint’s first AI-powered experience, extending the design system with new interaction patterns.
• Crafted a new executive reporting experiences with clear data visualizations and narrative insights, enabling faster, more confident security decisions.
• Evolved a shared design system across products, enforcing consistency, usability, and reuse at portfolio scale.
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
Mountain View, California
Evidence Lake – Anti-Money Laundering Web Platform
• Led the end-to-end interaction and visual design for the KYC customer onboarding experience, clarifying complex AML requirements into intuitive, compliant workflows.
• Redefined high-traffic online forms to improve information hierarchy and findability, driving higher completion rates and measurable gains in customer satisfaction.
Fraud Detection Platform
• Elevated the multi-channel Fraud Detection platform experience through targeted UX improvements that reduced friction for analysts and boosted overall customer satisfaction.
• Created and iterated on high-fidelity prototypes to validate next-generation fraud detection concepts with leadership, turning ambiguous ideas into actionable product roadmaps.
• Established a reusable UI framework spanning core products, enabling consistent experiences and faster delivery across the Xceed product suite.
2016 — 2017
2016 — 2017
Redmond, Washington
• Designed and shipped a multi-platform Transportation Hub experience (iOS, Android, and Windows) that enabled Microsoft employees to seamlessly navigate campus transportation options and reduce friction in daily commute to work.
• Owned the end-to-end UX lifecycle—from generative research and co-creation workshops to interaction design, low/high-fidelity wireframes, and moderated usability studies—ensuring solutions were grounded in real employee workflows.
• Prototyped key flows in high fidelity to validate functionality early with stakeholders, accelerating decision-making and reducing redesign cycles in later development phases.
• Partnered closely with design managers, PMs, engineers, and user researchers to align on problem framing, requirements, and success metrics, delivering coherent experiences across desktop and mobile touchpoint.
2015 — 2015
2015 — 2015
Redmond, Washington
• Co-led the design and definition of a multi-platform Employee Experiences app that centralized everyday tasks for Microsoft employees, including dining discovery, benefits lookup, internal job postings, and HR/facilities support.
Education
University of Southern California
Master's degree
B. M. S. College of Engineering