Education

Purdue University
BS Electrical Engineering, 2002

Boston University
Center for Digital Imaging Arts
Certificate, Graphic & Web Design, 2008

 

Capabilities

System Design
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
User Experience
Visual Design
Research
Creative Direction
Front-end Development (HTML5, CSS3)

Experience

Sutter Hill Ventures
Partner, Design, Jun.2021 – Feb.2024

Coursera
Senior Design Manager, Educator Experience, Sep.2019 – Jun.2021

I lead a team creating Educator experiences in the Coursera Content Platform, the backbone serving complex authoring and content management workflows for Educators and Industry Partners who create world-class content for learners in the Consumer, Enterprise & Degrees businesses.

Snowflake Computing - www.snowflake.com
Director of Design, Mar.2017 – Jul.2019
Director, UI Design & Product Management, Mar.2017 – Oct.2018
Senior Product Designer, Apr.2016 – Mar.2017

At Snowflake, I was responsible for the Web UI experience that caters to Cloud Architects, Database Administrators, Engineers, Data Science, Product and Analyst teams. I re-designed our SQL Worksheet interface and saw it’s use grow to ~30,000 MAU. Customers were thrilled with the upgrade and it set the path for us to invest more in developing our visualization and data analysis capabilities.

The ultimate achievement came when my team’s work was showcased by CEO Frank Slootman during his keynote where he announced the Snowflake Data Exchange and by our VP of Product, Christian Kleinerman in a number of product demos at the very first Snowflake User Conference in June 2019

 

CloudPhysics - www.cloudphysics.com
Lead Product Designer, Jan.2015 – Present

Tasked with overhauling product experience from conceptualizing & architecting a data dense, insightful dashboard to introducing a new mode of exploration that radically transforms the experience for our customers.

 

Blue Jeans Network – www.bluejeans.com
Senior Product Designer, May.2014 – Nov.2014

  • Designed user experience workflows and interfaces across platforms and devices for the flagship video conferencing product

  • Introduced and demonstrated the importance of holistic design thinking emphasizing ideation, sketching, information architecture, user research and designing with real data, in contrast to the existing fragmented approach to software design

  • Solved various customer UX problems for existing products through research, iterative design and user trials

 

Involution Studios – www.goinvo.com
Designer and Engineer, Nov.2011 – Jan.2014

Designed and architected complex software for web, mobile, and desktop devices for dozens of clients in diverse industries. 

Clients:

  • RapidMiner

  • Applause (formerly uTest)

  • Imprivata

  • Rue La La

  • Empirix

  • Survey Sampling International

 

Sweat For A Cause – www.sweatforacause.com
Co-Founder and Chief Designer, Jan.2011 – Dec.2013

General Assembly
Instructor, Oct.2013
Course: Software Interface Design: Process & Principles

 

IBM
Senior Hardware Engineer, Dec.2004 – May.2007

 

Sun Microsystems
Hardware Engineer, Sep.2002 – May.2004