ABOUT

Product & UX leader designing AI-native enterprise products.

Enterprise Product Design Leader with 20+ years of experience transforming complex, decision-intensive enterprise workflows into intuitive, high-impact digital products. Experienced leading product strategy, user research, and end-to-end design for enterprise platforms in highly regulated industries. Applying AI throughout the product design lifecycle to accelerate discovery, prototyping, and delivery, while exploring opportunities for intelligent automation and AI-assisted user experiences. Known for translating complex business challenges into measurable outcomes, including improved customer satisfaction, reduced support costs, and successful product transformation initiatives.

Experience
20+ yrs
Teams Led
Up to 15
Product Value
$2B+
Master's
UC Berkeley HCI
Professional Experience

Product design leadership.

Principal User Experience Designer
Extreme Reach
Los Angeles, CA
June 2025 – Present
  • Pioneered an AI-native design practice built on Lovable and Claude instead of static mockup tools, using AI as a working collaborator to prototype real interaction logic and surface data-model edge cases earlier in the design process
  • Applied AI-assisted synthesis to consolidate multi-stakeholder feedback into structured, actionable design specifications, reducing rework and improving handoff clarity between design and engineering
  • Emerging design for human-AI collaboration and agentic workflows
  • Elevated customer satisfaction, demonstrated through significant gains in PSAT performance — a programmatic indicator I developed for qualitative and quantitative user sentiment measurement
  • Steer complex initiatives through challenges, streamlining design processes to accelerate delivery and reduce friction
  • Own project governance by driving schedules, mitigating risks, and ensuring delivery of high-impact outcomes on time and within scope
  • Champion inclusive design standards, embedding accessibility and equity into every customer experience
  • Lead end-to-end design strategy, from concept through execution, ensuring solutions balance user needs with business objectives
  • Cultivate a feedback-driven culture, leveraging customer insights to refine, adapt, and continuously improve offerings
  • Communicate design vision and trade-offs clearly across teams and executives, securing alignment and buy-in
  • Strengthen organizational collaboration by building trusted partnerships with product, engineering, and business leaders
  • Influence decisions with evidence, presenting data-backed design solutions that guide stakeholders toward measurable success
  • Enhanced usability performance, shown in higher task success rates and reduced user friction
  • Delivered measurable business impact, directly contributing to achievement of company OKRs
Vice President, Global Product Experience
Entertainment Partners
Los Angeles, CA
June 2021 – May 2024
  • Drove global product experience improvements at Entertainment Partners, elevating NPS from +4 to +18 within 6 months
  • Applied AI technologies to automate end-user research, increasing team efficiency by 75% within 6 months
  • Restructured UX design team to include research, content strategy, and front-end design, resulting in a 15% improvement in product quality to achieve business goals
  • Transformed global product experience, elevating customer satisfaction and reducing 'how-to' support call drivers by 10% within 6 months through targeted UX enhancements
  • Revolutionized data-driven decision-making and reporting capabilities organization-wide through successful implementation of Pendo analytics across all products within 12 months
  • Consistently had highest Great Place to Work scores across Technology departments — 98%–100% satisfaction among 11-person team
  • Evangelized high-impact user research insights and analysis across global teams, affecting product roadmap execution and prioritization
  • Defined KPIs and tracked key performance metrics to enhance client experience across different platforms
Director, Digital Design
Entertainment Partners
Los Angeles, CA
September 2019 – June 2021
  • Drove revenue goal alignment for global EP pattern and usability best practices, through high-visibility research sessions with Fortune 500 clients (CBS, Disney, Viacom)
  • Established and directed design initiatives for next-generation entertainment industry products, including a proprietary market-disrupting analytics solution and rapid COVID-related strategies
  • Directed digital design initiatives to elevate brand identity and user experience for EP.com, contributing to substantial market share expansion
  • Led the recruitment and development of a high-performing, cross-functional team, ensuring epic stories and alignment with organizational goals
  • Advised executive team as design and strategic expert, managing Run-the-Business initiatives and corporate objectives alongside engineering and QA
  • Championed user-centered design, ensuring top-quality outcomes from research through execution
  • Empathetic and compassionate people manager able to lead strategic visioning and account for day-to-day team activities
User Experience Director (contract)
Phenomenon
Los Angeles, CA
September 2018 – December 2018
  • Generated $300K in new business acquisition by conceptualizing pitch work and providing SME, driving company expansion
  • Guided the UX and visual design for high-profile pitches, elevating overall brand perception and market positioning within 6 months
Director, User Experience
CallFire
Santa Monica, CA
July 2017 – August 2018
  • Drove a 15% boost in user satisfaction within 9 months by spearheading design strategy and presenting findings to executive leadership in a SaaS product environment with a five-member UX team
  • Directed the creation of streamlined, user-centric designs, enhancing user experience and meeting business requirements within 6 months
  • Implemented a new user testing process, resulting in a 4% improvement in product usability within 6 months
  • Developed chat bot interactions using RCS response requests to facilitate user support interactions
  • Elevated design documentation to drive high-velocity software delivery and cross-team collaboration
Principal User Experience Architect
TandemSeven UX Consultancy
Los Angeles, CA
May 2010 – June 2015
  • Led UX projects with budgets up to $5M for major banking clients, consistently meeting high performance demands within project budget and scope
  • Crafted winning sales pitches, landing high-profile clients like JPMorgan Chase and Stanford
  • Led team growth by recruiting top talent and mentoring junior designers to foster a collaborative and innovative user experience culture
Director, User Experience
Live Nation
Los Angeles, CA
October 2008 – April 2010
  • E-Commerce: UX lead for Live Nation ticketing initiative, increasing conversion rate by 37% within 6 months through redesigned checkout process and streamlined user flow
  • Executed usability studies on the Live Nation ticketing e-commerce engine to revamp user experience and optimize overall flow
  • Applied Agile addendum, boosting Creative team efficiency by 50% output within 3 months
  • Established documentation standards for website development process, streamlining workflow and ensuring consistency
  • Optimized design and design strategy for Livenation.com, Houseofblues.com, and Livenation.uk web properties, elevating brand perception and user satisfaction
User Experience Designer
Earlier Roles
2003 – 2008
  • Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Online
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Kyocera-Mita
Brands I've Worked With

Companies & industries.

FinTech

  • Bank of America
  • Fidelity
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Merrill Lynch
  • US Bank

Software for Entertainment

  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • CBS
  • Disney
  • Evite
  • Extreme Reach
  • Fremantle
  • HBO
  • House of Blues
  • Imagine Pictures
  • Lionsgate
  • Live Nation
  • Viacom
  • Warner Brothers

Automotive

  • BMW
  • Honda
  • Toyota

Insurance

  • Aflac
  • Asurion
  • Toco Warranty Services

Education

  • Career Education Corporation
  • Kaplan Learning
  • Learn4Life

Misc

  • Cisco
  • Expedia-Hitwise
  • McDonald's
  • Schumacher Homes
  • Point Trade Services
Education

Foundations in HCI.

Master of Information Management & Systems
University of California, Berkeley
Focus: Human-Computer Interaction
Interdisciplinary Program, Management of Technology (MOT)
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts, Global Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Education Abroad Program — Germany
Universität Bayreuth, Host
Skills & Expertise

Toolkit & practice.

Emerging Tech

  • AI-Driven Design (ChatGPT, Claude, Lovable, Bolt, FigmaMake)
  • RCS
  • SaaS & Service Design
  • Full-Cycle Product Development

Design & Research

  • Figma
  • Axure
  • Sketch
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Interactive Prototyping
  • Information Architecture
  • Persona Design
  • Usability Testing
  • Mobile-First Design

Leadership & Strategy

  • Team Leadership (15+ reports)
  • Product Strategy
  • Agile/SCRUM
  • Resource Allocation
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Contract Negotiations
  • Organizational Change

Analytics & Tools

  • Pendo Analytics
  • Qlik Sense
  • Airtable
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Salesforce
  • Google Workspace
Servant Leadership

Volunteer stewardship.

Optimize AI
Head of Design & Enablement
2024 – Present

A predictive pricing platform for the food and beverage vertical. Lead design and enablement for an AI-native product org, and contributing to product strategy.

Sherpa Healthy
Board Member
2024 – Present

A unique approach to healthcare through the lens of distilling down information overload for the average consumer. Advise on product strategy and user experience as the company scales its health platform.

CERESAV
Board Member
2021 – Present

Helping fund a lifeline for survivors of acid and burns violence in Uganda — reconstructive surgeries, trauma care, education, and the dignity to live unashamed. Funding is the difference between a survivor getting surgery this year or waiting another decade. If this moves you, please give or share: ceresavusa.com.

Blendily
Advisor
2022 – 2024

A health and beauty ecommerce destination. Counseled founders on brand experience, digital strategy, and growth fundamentals.