I love working in a design leadership role—managing, teaching, mentoring, hiring, and training. I'm passionate about putting designers in positions where they can shine, grow, and create wonderful experiences for users.
Leading Design Teams
Experience growing and managing teams of up to 15 managers, UX designers, industrial designers, content designers and researchers.
Build design team relationships with executive leadership, internal cross-functional teams, and key external partners.
“The Driver” — Regularly lead teams facing the pressure to successfully launch a well-designed product on time.
“The Fixer” — Often tapped to turn around teams with morale problems and poor reputation within the company.
Collaborate on with leadership colleagues on design and product strategy.
Evaluate designs, provide direction, and push teams to ship the best product they can.
Scope, prioritize, and plan product roadmaps in close collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership.
Teaching Design
Taught public classes for Cooper in Interaction Design and Putting Personas to Work, plus Cooper's UX Bootcamp, an intensive program for advanced practitioners.
Developed curriculum for Cooper's Putting Personas to Work class.
Taught via private training on user research, design strategy, creative ideation, incorporating design into culture, pair design, and building effective product teams.
Speaking engagements at design conferences and courses.
Mentoring
Advise seed, Series A and Series B startup execs on building and scaling the design discipline at their companies. Focus is on finding the best path for each company’s goals and story.
Provide guidance and career management to senior designers, helping them define their personal path and identity as a designer — identifying areas of strength to share with the larger team and areas of weakness to improve.
Mentor junior designers, bringing them up to speed on process and techniques, as well as general design principles and best practices.