Design function at stealth.

Collaborative Design: Enhancing UX with AI

I have the privilege of mentoring aspiring HCI professionals at the UCSC Baskin Engineering MS program, sharing industry insights, hands-on learning experiences, and foundational guidance in human-centered design. My goal is to support the next generation of UX leaders and help them bridge the gap between academia and real-world applications through practical design thinking, user research, and product strategy.

It’s incredibly rewarding to nurture talent, foster curiosity, and contribute to a growing UX community, empowering students to design impactful, user-centered experiences for the future.

As a Design Leader at Equinix, I oversee UX strategy and execution for the Cloud Edge Services business line, encompassing computing, storage, and networking solutions such as Network Edge, Solution Builder, Bare Metal Server, Cloud Adjacent Storage, Observability, and Platform Services.

• Established and scaled the UX function within Cloud Edge, embedding research, design processes, and a structured UX career growth path.

• Lead a multidisciplinary UX team of designers, researchers, and content strategists (10+ members, including dotted-line relationships), fostering a collaborative and high-impact design culture.

• Streamlined design operations, ensuring seamless integration of UX with engineering, product, and business objectives.

• Championed design thinking and inclusive leadership, aligning UX efforts with company OKRs to drive measurable business and user outcomes.

• Shaped the future of enterprise cloud UX, improving networking, compute, storage, and platform experiences such as IAM, Billing, Observability, and Support experiences for global customers.

At Equinix, I founded Quix, a company-wide design system for the Cloud and Data Center portfolios, fostering a Design at Scale culture and helping build a thriving UX tribe within a Fortune 500 company. This initiative transformed how 50+ UX professionals, hundreds of engineers, and product managers collaborate across global teams.

• Drove end-to-end strategy, execution, and adoption of Quix, creating a unified design language and scalable UI framework across multiple enterprise products.

• Enabled cross-functional efficiency, streamlining design-development workflows and enhancing consistency, accessibility, and scalability across platforms.

• Delivered a $1.5M ROI within six months, significantly reducing design debt, engineering inefficiencies, and time-to-market.

• Fostered a Design at Scale culture, aligning UX efforts across global teams and establishing governance models for long-term scalability.

• Built a strong UX tribe within a Fortune 500 company, empowering designers, researchers, and content strategists through collaboration, mentorship, and shared vision.

• Demonstrated leadership in strategy execution, guiding Quix from concept to launch, showcasing vision, collaboration, and measurable business impact.