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. 


Sweat For A Cause / Co-Founder and Chief Designer / Jan.2011 – Dec.2013


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


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