About Me

I am a seasoned UX professional with 18 years of experience, grateful to have worked at some of the best tech companies.

Passionate about design, I enjoy leadership and the role designers can play working together and contributing to their community.

How I Think About Design

As a designer, my north star that has served me well has always been:  do the right thing for the customer. 

This means that I enjoy participating in learning about users and their problems, designing the right things, and value high quality work.

I also believe design is a team sport.  I occasionally write about the soft skills that are fundamental to doing good design work.


Collaboration and community, not competition and comparison.

I am the creator of the Long Beach UX Meetup from 2017 to 2019. We met once a month to support and learn from each other through "Coffee & Design Therapy". I also invited other design leaders to come and do small workshops for the community.


The user is the expert and we're serving them.

I have self-published a book to help designers chart out their careers and get back to focusing on service.


The real master is always a student.

I believe there is always more to learn. I have taught UX classes and graduated over 100+ UX students at General Assembly - and have found I am still learning more.

View my GA Staff Page

The soft skills are just as important as the hard skills.

I have a passion for the soft skills in design and conducted over 14 workshops at various places like UCLA, Cal Arts, Lucky Brand, and more.

By the Numbers...

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Long Beach <br>UX Meetup Members
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Students Taught<br>UX Design
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self-published <br> BOOKS WRITTEN

Companies I've Worked For

I am grateful and honored to have worked at some of the best tech companies. To learn more about my experience, view my resume below.

GA

UX Design Immersive Instructor

TRANSAMERICA

Lead UX Designer, Digital Enterprise Team

YAHOO

Senior UX Designer, Advertising & Data Team
Image

MYSPACE

Senior Interaction Designer,
Homepage & Login

SONY

Interaction Designer,
Bravia TV Interfaces

MICROSOFT

Program Manager Intern

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