Goldman Sachs
Global Head of UX, Engineering Division
July 2016 - Present
New York City, NY
• Leadership, strategy, and management of an international team of Engineering division UX designers in New York City, London, & Bengaluru.
• Established global team portfolio & operations model, define project strategy, drive hiring & onboarding.
• Focus on firmwide tools, products, and platforms that support the entire bank.
• Established & continue to lead design crit groups, design bookclub, design office hours (~300 since 2016).
• Diversity & Inclusion ally and advocate.
eBay
Director of User Experience
May 2014 - 2016
New York City, NY
• Led a 20+ UX Design & Research team across four U.S. locations in B2B/B2C applications.
• eBay Product (e.g. Connected Glass), platforms (e.g. Magento), and consulting (e.g. eBay Corporate).
• Represented UX at the executive level, managed/hired staff across multiple offices, collaborated with product owners and external clients to define & deliver UX Design & Research engagements.
• Managed and led design & UX review/critique process, oversaw user research practice.
OppenheimerFunds
VP of User Experience
May 2012 - May 2014
New York City, NY
• Led a hybrid in-house / agency team in complex financial data & content interaction design, mobile, redesign, and rebranding.
• Represented UX at the senior management level, managed staff across offices, defined process, architected UX specifications and drove design team strategy, led usability testing and data analysis.
• Simultaneously drove multiple data-intense and financial content projects forward (e.g. Investor & Advisor site redesigns, Intranet).
MTV Networks
Director of Information Architecture
August 2011 - February 2012
New York City, NY
• Led up the design efforts for the Viacom Media Networks product management team.
• The majority of effort during my time in this role was focused uplifting the Comedy Central properties, especially Indecision 2012, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and CC Standup.
WebMD
Director of User Experience
April 2010 - August 2011
New York City, NY
• Led design for an in-house design and development team, creating new products for individual specialties such as plastic surgery, and made recommendations for existing properties.
• Mobile was a major focus, and I designed the inaugural Medscape iPad application, and led up two redesigns of the existing Medscape iPhone application.
• In 2011 I participated in the full redesign of medscape.com, including a markedly more usable mobile rendition.
• One of my final projects was to redesign the membership sign up process, accounting for the global and specialty-based nature of the users, while supporting the objectives of the marketing team.
• Co-ordinated collaboration within the team, and working with hands-on executives to achieve consensus on design, features, and functionality.
MICROS Systems Inc
User Experience Group Manager
September 2003 - April 2010
New York City, NY
• As User Experience Group Manager I led discovery and brainstorming sessions with clients, conducted stakeholder interviews, formal and informal usability testing, created detailed functional/UI specifications, heuristic evaluations, personas, requirements gathering, site maps, interactive prototypes, taxonomy creation, and content structuring.
• I worked and collaborated constantly with all members of project teams, including art directors, technical specialists, account directors, and clients. I led presentations of work, solicited senior stakeholder feedback, and negotiated consensus.
• As a manager I was responsible for guiding the career development of direct reports and monitoring and mentoring them in their work. I contributed to internal standards and methodology, and helped guide the direction of the entire user experience group.
• I created estimates, crafted SOWs, participated in business development, and led project engagements.
• Clients included Canon, Godiva, Kraft, Nautica, Wet Seal, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Organic, Inc.
Snr. Information Architect
April 2002 - September 2003
New York City, NY
• As Senior Information Architect, I was primarily focused on project work for clients in a variety of verticals.
• I established requirements for the interactive experience, working directly with key stakeholders, translated these into blueprints for sites via site maps and wireframes, and worked with the technical teams to realize and guide the resulting work.
• The process was often a traditional waterfall process moving from requirements to IA deliverables, then moving on to front end design, technology, and finally QA.
• Juggling multiple projects was common, as was negotiating scope and meeting hard deadlines.
• Clients included Virgin, Tommy Hilfiger, Reebok, and Fannie Mae.
Louis Berger Group
Snr. Information Architect
May 2001 - May 2002
New York City, NY
• On-site consultant for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey based in the original World Trade Center.
• Supported the business processes of the Port Authority design group.
• Projects included the creation of a digital photograph database for the thousands of photographs of the NY/NJ area dating back to the turn of the century, making usability and design specifications to improve the in-house database applications, and the creation of service design deliverables in order to improve complex processes.
• Supported disaster recovery efforts following the terrorist attack of September 11th, 2001.
marchFIRST
Information Architect
May 2000 - May 2001
New York City, NY
• marchFIRST was a global internet consulting group, and at one time the largest of its kind in the world.
• As an Information Architect on large projects I was an individual contributor within a team of IAs. I focused on producing deliverables such as task flows and wireframes as specified by business consultants within the organization.
• Clients included Ziff Davis and LexisNexis.
Education
New York University
M.P.S, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
University of Sydney
BMusEd., Music & Education