Experience

Google  /  Senior Interaction Designer
July 2022 - present, Sunnyvale, CA

Google Workspace /  Senior Interaction Designer
July 2022 - present
Designer on the Google Workspace Design System team

Evernote  /  Senior Product Designer
October 2014 - July 2021,  Redwood City, CA

Calendar & Capture /  Lead Senior Product Designer
June 2019 - July 2021
Design lead for all editor and web clipping experiences for the new Evernote desktop, web, and mobile clients. End to end designer for Evernote’s new Calendar integration feature and lead on features including formatting bar, insert flow, table editing, and typeahead.

Growth  /  Lead Senior Product Designer 
March 2018 - June 2019
Designed new user journey and monetization experiments to increase user acquisition, retention, and conversions. Rolled out successful experiments for personalized onboarding flows and increased note engagement on day 0.

Web & Web Services  /  Principal Product Manager 
September 2017 - March 2018
Drove realignment of the web client to Evernote’s desktop clients to increase app to app consistency and shipped the Spaces feature to Evernote business customers. 

Growth  /  Principal Product Manager 
July 2016 - September 2017
Built Evernote’s first multi-disciplinary Growth team, established  team experimentation culture, process, and defined target growth metrics. Drove design & development of new device paywall and increased user conversions by 30%. 

Web Client & Web Services  / Senior Product Manager 
October 2014 - July 2016
Successfully turned around a redesign of the Evernote Web Client that resulted in negative user feedback and confusing user flows.  


StumbleUpon 
/  Director of Product, Site Experiences
January 2012 - April 2014, San Francisco, CA

Site Experiences  /   Director of Product
January 2013 - April 2014 
Led site engineering overhaul to optimize development workflow to promote a data driven lean culture, decrease engineering turnaround time, and reduce overhead of legacy code maintenance.

Mobile Experiences  /  Lead Senior Product Manager 
February 2012 - January 2013 
Led redesign of StumbleUpon’s iOS, Android, Kindle, Nook, and Windows 8 Modern apps to increase app ergonomics on touch devices and improve stumble experience and load time. 

Microsoft / Senior Program Manager
September 2005 - January 2012,  Redmond, WA

Windows 8 - Windows User Experience  / Senior Program Manager 
July 2009 - January 2012
Redesigned Windows experiences features for social, media playback, and app to app scenarios to adapt to modern touch and tablet form factors. Product owner of system animations and brand consistency. 

Windows 7 - Windows User Experience  /  Program Manager II 
July 2006 - July 2009
Led redesign of playback features that improved launch time performance and simplified user flow for Windows Media Player. Created new taskbar interaction model for  background music playback control. 

Windows Vista - Windows User Experience  /  Program Manager 
August 2005 - July 2006
Led newly formed 20 man engineering team and turned around core at risk features in Windows Vista to ship on schedule and at quality including Programs Control Panel and Windows’ internal UI development platform.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  / Bachelor of Science 
Class of 2005, Cambridge, MA

Course 6-3, Computer Science

 

Skills

Product & User Experience Design

Interaction Design

Product Management

Growth

Figma

Sketch

Principle

Reforge Growth Series