August 28, 2015
As a Senior Partner Manager at Google, launched new products and oversaw system integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. For the BebaPay project in Kenya, designed and conducted ‘on-the-ground’ field usability studies of consumers, agents, and merchants transacting on Google’s Beba platform (via NFC cards and readers); tracked and aggregated metrics on user behavior; and advised on […]
Morgan Stanley
August 28, 2015
“Matrix” is Morgan Stanley’s flagship RIA client portal, offering insight from live analysts, real-time pricing, pre-trade analytics, simple execution, and post-trade portfolio management. The multi-award winning platform features innovative UX patterns, rich data visualizations, robust collaboration tools, and highly performant (low latency) transactions. As a Product Feature Manager and Architecture lead, responsibilities included: architecture and […]
Bloomberg
August 28, 2015
As Product UX Engineering Lead, tasked with “[introducing proven Adobe UX methodologies to Bloomberg]”, advised senior management and stake holders on usability direction and feature scope for a new Bloomberg ‘Plan-B’ initiative —an analytics platform for sports statistics. Led a strong team of UX engineers in building and successfully releasing version 1.0 of the Bloomberg Sports […]
O’Reilly Media
August 28, 2015
One of two selected from a pool of Adobe engineers as technical editor for O’Reilly’s premier ‘Cookbook’ for the AIR platform. In additional to technical review, my specific contribution was very targeted on information architecture and reader experience; influential in not just changing the code and the writing style, but also the order of chapters […]
IMO Wireless
August 28, 2015
As a Product Advisor and engineer for the IMO Wireless project by Mindseye, Inc., scoped features and led technical implementation for IMO’s flagship in-store kiosk experience for the ‘IMO Advisor’. Responsibilities included requirements gathering, wireframing and prototype building, as well as defining technical architecture for the first of its kind kiosk RIA built in Adobe […]
Dell – Axim Navigator Project (2004)
August 28, 2015
As Sr. Product Manager and Creative Director, led a team of software and design consultants to re-brand and enhance usability for Dell’s Axim port of Intellinav, the Pocket PC Navigation software (powered by Netropa & Navtech). Responsibilities included market research, information architecture, usability testing (hands-on and with small focus groups), as well as overseeing the […]
Sony – Digital Days CBT (2003)
August 28, 2015
As UX Advisor and Engineer, scoped and built the distributed CBT for Sony’s “Digital Days” Digital Camera campaign, an collection of interactive courses showcasing features of the Sony digital camera line. The project involved enhancing static courseware and building new interactive content. Responsibilities included requirements gathering, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, as well as building the […]
Popstick – Microsoft IT Forum (2002)
August 28, 2015
As Product Manager and Engineer at a small startup, co-choreographed the UX and built the UI and middle tier for several dozen animated / functional ‘POPgrams’ , distributed by POPManager, a marketing platform for serving highly interactive, targeted B2B ‘widgets’. Features included user behaviour tracking, performance analytics reporting, customized CRM integration and sales force automation. At the […]
Popstick – EMC (2002)
August 28, 2015
As Product Manager and Engineer at a small startup, co-choreographed the UX and built the UI and middle tier for several dozen animated / functional ‘POPgrams’ , distributed by POPManager, a marketing platform for serving highly interactive, targeted B2B ‘widgets’. Features included user behaviour tracking, performance analytics reporting, customized CRM integration and sales force automation. At the […]