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
Data Visualization
Research
Creative Direction
Front-end Development
Experience
Consulting / Apr.2024 – Present
Since leaving Sutter Hill Ventures, I’ve been involved with early to mid-stage startups designing experiences and providing design leadership and guidance as they evolve their product organization.
Sutter Hill Ventures / Partner / Jun.2021 – Feb.2024
Supported product design & definition initiatives for companies, founders, and EIRs, hired & mentored portfolio company designers, led brand naming efforts (yes! I named one of the companies), and built an intelligence platform for SHV.
Contributed hands-on design to products in the portfolio, including:
integrations and account management for a DevOps ITSM company
faceted search and labeling for a computer vision platform
information architecture to support object, asset and preset management for a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) product
Regularly audited product experiences, developed product and company pitch decks, and provided strategic guidance to teams.
Coursera / Senior Design Manager, Educator Experience / Sep.2019 – Jun.2021
Led 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 / Director of Design / Mar.2017 – Jul.2019
Senior Product Designer / Apr.2016 – Mar.2017
Responsible for the Web UI app experience that caters to Cloud Architects, Database Administrators, Engineers, Data Science, Product, and Analyst teams. We re-designed our SQL Worksheet interface and saw its use grow to ~30,000 MAU. Customers were thrilled with the upgrade and it set us on a path to develop visualization and data analysis capabilities.
CloudPhysics / Lead Product Designer / Jan.2015 – Feb.2016
Tasked with overhauling product experience from architecting a data-dense, insightful dashboard to introducing a new mode of exploration that radically transformed the experience for customers.
Blue Jeans Network / 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
Goinvo – 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.