Resumé

• Senior UX Designer (Contract) at Amazon, July 2024 - Present

  • Working with the Fire TV team on various projects.

• Freelance Product Designer, December 2023 - Present

• Sabbatical, November 2022 - November 2023

  • General enrichment: world travel, learning Chinese, advanced Scuba certification, etc.

• Lead UX/UI Designer at Likewise Inc. June 2017 - November 2022

  • Lead designer building a brand new social media network from scratch. Imagined and founded by Bill Gates’ private office (now known as Gates Ventures).

  • I was a key member of the product team from the pre-alpha ideation stages to supporting a mature app with over 5 million registered users.

  • Helped grow the design org from just myself to a team of 5 highly collaborative designers.

  • Helped shape features from ideation to implementation and beyond.

  • Collaborated to establish and maintain usability standards and look and feel over multiple interconnected products as we expanded from native phone apps to include smart TV apps and a web presence.

  • Supported rapid prototyping and feature iteration with tight deadlines and close collaboration with product leaders, developers, and usability testers.

• UX/UI Designer at Whitepages Inc. August 2012 - June 2017

  • Was a member of a small design team supporting multiple products for millions of monthly users, including both paid and free B2C and paid B2B web apps.

  • Wore many design hats, including responsive web design, marketing design, and trade booth design.

  • Spearheaded the design side of a push to fully responsive web experiences.

  • B2B product spun off as Ekata after my departure and was recently acquired by MC for $800 million

• Freelance designer, July 2011 - August 2012

• Contract Web Production Designer at MSN, July 2010 - July 2011