Category: Work Experience
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UX & Product Career Highlights
16-year background in product management and user experience design on websites, demos, mobile apps, software and set-top box applications, working with agencies, corporate teams and startups. Career focus on information architecture, user experience design and product management while serving in wide variety of other roles: visual designer, creative director, front-end developer, usability testing moderator, technical […]
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Senior Product Manager, WalmartLabs & Walmart Brazil
Company: WalmartLabs & Walmart Brazil | Locations: Sunnyvale, California, US & São Paulo, Brazil | Dates: 2015 to present Highlights: Global product owner for customer service tool launched in the Brazil market, serving as product owner for a scrum team of developers in Brazil. Product management for payment, fraud and post-transactional systems as part of […]
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Principal, User Experience, Walmart Global eCommerce
Company: Walmart Global eCommerce / Walmart Labs | Location: San Bruno, California | Dates: 2010-2013 After working for several years as a gun-for-hire and as a partner in a small design agency, I made the move over to my first corporate job as an employee. With Walmart, I was able to lead large UX teams […]
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Director, User Experience | Native Instinct
Company: Native Instinct | Location: San Francisco, California | Dates: 2007 – 2010 Highlights: Worked with a variety of corporate clients to develop cutting edge, rich-interaction products and demos. Developed new design methodologies incorporating iterative, high-fidelity prototyping. Served dual role as information architect and technical architect for deploying Drupal, a leading open source content management […]
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Web Site Usability Consulting
Clients: Various | Location: San Francisco, California | Dates: 2002 – 2007 Hightlights Created fully interactive and integrated Web site use cases, wireframe prototypes and user interface specifications using proprietary tool developed specifically for Web site user interface design. When required, served as one-person team, including graphic design, production, content management and development in HTML, […]
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User Interface Designer, Motiva
Company: Motiva, Inc., | Location: Pleasanton, California | Dates: 2001 – 2002 Highlights: Responsible for user interface design of complex enterprise software for calculating variable compensation, recently re-architected for a zero-footprint, Web-based client As UI team lead, developed long-term user interface quality and usability testing strategies Established user-interface prototyping, documentation and communication methodology and standards
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Associate Creative Director, Organic
Company: Organic | Location: San Francisco, California | Dates: 2000 – 2004 Highlights: Worked as team lead with information architects, designers and writers to develop effective creative concepts based on clients’ and their customers’ needs. Delivered projects on time and with creative solutions that exceeded clients’ expectations. Coordinated initiative to move the information architecture discipline […]
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Director of Product Design, ThinkLink
Company: ThinkLink Inc. | Location: San Francisco, California | Dates: 1999 – 2000 Highlights: Developed complete documentation system for user interface specifications, including continuously updated product prototypes and descriptions of interface elements across multiple versions of the product Served as Director of Product Management, organizing hundreds of product feature requests and assisting company in understanding […]
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Director of Interface Design, USWeb/CKS
Company: USWeb/CKS (formerly Ikonic, later marchFIRST) | Locations: San Francisco, California & New York, New York | Dates: 1994 – 1999 Highlights: Worked closely with teams to develop user interface design process that included: user profiles; user scenario and use cases; usability testing; site maps and process flows; wireframes and interaction specifications Worked with creative […]