UX Lead

Schlumberger
July 2017– Present
Houston, Texas Area

Product design and development of B2B and cloud-based IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) products for the energy sector, with a primary focus on creating products that empower users to understand and leverage massive amounts of data and insights. Responsibilities involve working closely with stakeholders at initial design stage to define and document product goals, success metrics, as well as an execution strategy; implementation of product design through hands-on user research, storyboarding, user role defining, wire-framing, prototyping, and conducting of feedback generation opportunities; iteration based off user feedback; lastly, working closely with the development team throughout the product development process.

Senior UX Designer

Bloomboard
November 2016 – June 2017
Palo Alto, Ca

BloomBoard is a platform dedicated to fulfilling the ongoing professional development needs of those working in the education space. Responsibilities include offering UX and UI product development solutions through creation of journey maps, developing user roles/scenarios, wireframing, prototype creation, and storyboarding; develop and implement UX research projects, user research logistics, conducting user interviews, and analysis and documentation of results for use in future product development.

Quantifind is the developer of Signum, a SaaS explanatory-analytics social listening platform that helps leading brands explore, understand and shape their impact on revenue using a suite of data-insight web apps. Responsible for establishing a user-centered development process through classic UX methodologies and techniques including user research, the introduction of personas, scenarios, task flows and journey maps as well as wireframing and prototyping needs. This role ensures product direction and implementation is clearly aligned with business goals and user needs.

Working directly with our partners in understanding their needs and opportunities then using this to help define product scope and development; creation of requirement specs, wireframes and prototypes for evaluation and feedback among stakeholders and users alike; creation of feature build specs for both internal as well as external engineering teams; led bi-weekly sprint sessions as well as daily stand ups with developers; document and developed company-wide UX and UI patterns and best practices.

UX and UI refinement and feature development and deployment for MeWe; an online, grouped-focused social communications platform with a focus on user content privacy. Responsibilities included a product-wide heuristic evaluation and improvement road map; strategize and development of new features based on user research and interviews; creation of new feature development flows, wireframes and high-fidelity clickable prototypes as well as engineering product specs and asset creation such as icons and interface style guides.

Responsible for developing a digital presence for the seven Asian editions of the world’s largest circulated magazine, Reader’s Digest, as well as being instrumental in developing an in-house bespoke projects wing that included servicing clients such as Canon and Discovery Channel as well as regional tourist boards by creating custom curated content for both digital and print distribution and marketing. Product design and implementation through hands-on print and digital design as well as continually managing and directing a small team of highly talented designers and photo editors.