EXPERIENCE

ABOUT ME

I’m passionate about creating clever, elegant design solutions that empower users to focus on their work and drive technical innovation.

I find joy in creating order, finding patterns, and presenting technologies naturally to the user.

I’m eager to share my experience with others and build a community of outstanding designers.

WORK EXPERIENCE

MathWorks

Consulting Principal User Experience Designer (April 2024 – Present)

Designed and Launched the student onboarding experience for MATLAB Online, enhancing user engagement and ease of access (Released August 2024).
Led UX Design for MATLAB Copilot autocompletion, streamlining user workflows and improving productivity (Planned Release: March 2025).
Pioneered UX Strategies for MATLAB Copilot in data analysis by enabling context-aware user interactions, allowing users to ask questions about their specific workflows. Focused on defining user context to deliver meaningful and relevant responses.
Prototyped All Copilot Designs using existing technology to ensure feasibility and realism, a critical approach for generative AI solutions.
Currently Driving Cross-Product UX Design for MATLAB Copilot, developing a unified design language and interaction framework across MathWorks products to deliver a seamless, cohesive user experience.

User Experience Design Senior Team Lead (Apr 2020 – April 2024)

Managed seven designers on strategic projects spanning multiple product areas, including desktop and online products, and developed MathWorks’ design system.

Led the definition and release of MathWorks’ first design system by coordinating a cross-functional team of designers, process engineers, and developers. MathWorks’ design system allows us to consolidate design standards across many locations. UX designers, UX researchers, engineers, documentation writers, engineers, and marketing are all using the system to find design guidelines and assets and complete work faster and with higher quality.

Organized and led monthly training for all MathWorks designers to build their competency on the MathWorks design process and standards.

Fostered the MathWorks design community by creating channels and opportunities for design conversation to learn, share and inspire each other.

Created and currently managing designbytes, our internal blog, to share projects, learning, and design ideas with the rest of the company.
Established and presently leading MathWorks monthly global UX Design meeting to allow all designers to share their work across groups.
Currently launching the Design Innovation Lab, which provides a home for people to explore and share ideas and to push our product forward.

User Experience Design Team Lead (Jan 2020 – Apr 2020)

Managed four designers and led the release of a new icon repository to enable designers and developers to find icons for their work quickly.

Consulting Principal User Experience Designer (2016 – 2020)

Led the design of many strategic features and breakthrough innovations that enabled all MATLAB users to write code faster and with less coding expertise, resulting in 7 patents awarded between 2017 and 2021.

Principal User Experience Specialist (2009 – 2016)

Ideated and led the definition of a new design pattern for all MATLAB products, improving discoverability, allowing seamless integration of extensions, and establishing a consistent design pattern for existing and future developments.

Led the design of several strategic features:

A new design pattern as the new standard for all MathWorks products.
A new rich code editor.
A new way to find and share files.
An intuitive way to build graphical user interfaces.

This work resulted in 10 patents awarded between 2012 and 2016.

Senior User Experience Specialist (2005 – 2009)

Worked on user research, design, and usability testing for several Simulink products.

Initiated a design exploration to improve the integration of Simulink into MATLAB to allow Simulink users to use the product more efficiently. This work resulted in 3 patents awarded between 2010 and 2011.

Scrble

Creator (2013 – Present)

Ideated, designed, developed, and marketed Scrble, one of the top note-taking apps for Windows devices with over 200k acquisitions and 10k daily users.

Created a website to market the product, provide support, and vote on other users’ suggestions, which helped me prioritize future development.

Hired several QA consultants to help identify defects.

Scrble has received many positive reviews, including one of the best Windows 8 business apps for mobile productivity by Brad Chacos in PCWorld.

Think3

User Interface Design Manager (1999 -2005)

Devised a paradigm of interaction that seamlessly blends parameter input with the 2d-3d geometry, becoming the new interface for the entire CAD product.

Designed and implemented the integration of voice recognition input to operate the software.