Seasoned Product Design Project Lead. Hands-on contributor producing deliverables for every step of the UX process, from early user research, use case analysis, concept generation and story telling, interaction and visual design, prototyping, pitching to leadership, engineering specifications, and final production code.

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2018 - 2023

Product Design Lead

Core OS / Viewer Platform Team

  • Platform Design Lead - Responsible for design and upkeep of all Roku OS features.

  • TV/Movie Details - Proposed, designed, and oversaw implementation of the design pattern used to represent every possible piece of content from every streaming service available on Roku.

  • OS Search - Redesigned the cross-platform content search feature, the most popular feature of Roku OS.

  • Home Menu - Launched What to Watch, Live TV, Save List, sections in the Home Screen Menu.

  • Design Systems - Originated reference designs and UI components for all of the above projects, enabling multiple teams to quickly turn around and launch their own products.

 

2011 - 2017

SR Staff Designer / Manager

Visual Displays R&D Lab

  • TV OS Design - Interaction design execution lead for v1 of Tizen TV, the #1 TV OS in the world.

  • New Products - Led teams of research, design, and prototyping experts to create new products.

  • A/V Strategy - Led strategy for multiple teams building whole home A/V systems.

  • Voice AI Lead - Proposed efforts to design and build voice and AI capabilities.

 

2008 - 2011

User Experience Lead

WebEx and Social Intranet Products

  • Strategy - Pitched social intranet concepts supporting ~38M in capital investments.

  • Interaction Design - Defined product features via wireframes & prototypes.

 

2006 - 2008

USABILITY ENGINEER

Various Clients

  • User Research - Design / facilitate / report user tests, ethnographic research, surveys.

  • Consulting - Usability engineering for consumer electronics, web, mobile, aerospace, automotive, gaming, biomedical, life science domains.

  • Interaction Design - Detailed wireframes for rapid UI iteration, final graphics.

  • Development - HTML / CSS front end layouts for web apps.

 

2002 - 2004

Student / Project Assistant

San Diego Center for Patient Safety@ UCSD Medical center

  • Research - Literature review for Human Factors researchers at the San Diego Center for Patient Safety.

  • Coursework prep - Reviewed and assembled Patient Safety course materials.

  • Program Management - Prepared spend reports for grant administration, became a certified purchaser for lab equipment.

Education

  • MS Human Factors & Ergonomics, San Jose State University, Tau Beta Pi Honors Society, 2004 - 2007

  • BA Psychology, University of California San Diego, 2001 - 2003

  • Coursework in Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration, Art Center College of Design

PATENTS

Roku OS - Customizing search results in a multi-content source environment

  • US20220070542A1 · Issued Dec 15, 2022US20220070542A1 · Issued Dec 15, 2022

  • Utility patents for Roku OS Search, application of a machine learning algorithm to provide custom streaming content search results across multiple content types based on previous behavior.Utility patent for Roku OS Search, application of a machine learning algorithm to provide custom streaming content search results across multiple content types based on previous behavior.

Roku OS - Visual Voice/Text Search

  • US11178464B2 · Issued Nov 16 2021 | WO2020123590A1 · Issued Jun 8 | EP3895039A1 · Issued Sep 8, 2022

  • Utility patent for Roku OS Visual Search, utilizing multi-modal (Audio/Voice + Text) input across multiple content types and services.Utility Patent for Roku OS Visual Search, utilizing multi-modal (Audio/Voice + Text) input across multiple content types and services.

Samsung - Audio Apparatus Adapable to User Position

  • EU EP3476134 · Issued Feb 19 2020

  • Utility patent for an adaptive audio playback system that adjusts spatially to a user’s position in the room.  

Samsung - Multi Area Grouping for audio playback devices 

  • US US10542052B2 · Issued Jan 21, 2020

  • Utility patent for a system to simplify control of speaker groupings and transfer audio playback from one room to another without the use of a display. 

Cisco - Intelligent Social Collaboration Unified Media

  • US 12/946,390 · Issued Feb 10, 2015US 12/946,390 · Issued Feb 10, 2015

  • Design patent for an enterprise social media posting platform that also adheres to enterprise security and privacy requirements.