Some of my past work

Al Jazeera

Lead Product Designer

Al Jazeera’s mission is to give voice to the voiceless . The digital team managed the publishing platform and web and mobile front ends for multiple editorial bureaus. My focus was to evaluate the state of the mobile app, then to create and guide implementation of a vision to address its biggest opportunities, while mentoring the product design team.

Vineti

Principal Product Designer

Vineti was founded to solve the key challenges faced by patients, medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, and regulators in the delivery and commercialization of personalized medicine. Over six years, Vineti became the proven clinical-to-commercial platform for cell & gene therapy supply chain management.

Rakuten Manga

Director of Product Design

Comics and graphic novels are created around the world, with a global fanbase. The most popular series may be translated into a few populous languages, but most content ends up distributed through scanlation groups who pirate it and spend laborious hours in Photoshop creating one translation. It is available illegally at best, and in a couple languages at most.

Rakuten Viki

UX Design Lead

In a streaming world where most international content is still pirated by fans and translated and subtitled by volunteers because a lack of overseas licensing, Viki created a two-pronged model of content arbitrage.

Side projects

Side projects and hackathons

Addvocate

UX team-of-one

Addvocate | UX Director SF ‘12-‘13 Enterprise social media enablement. Designed & prototyped cross-channel apps, research, marketing site. #plugin #mobile

ZAAZ

UX Architect

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Concent

Concent | UX Architect Tokyo ‘11-‘12 Communications design agency. Client-facing product design, web governance, knowledge management, heuristics, workshop facilitation. #consultancy #enterprise #japanese

Microsoft - Windows Phone 7

Interaction Designer

Microsoft | Interaction Designer Redmond ‘10-‘11 Windows Phone 7 Design Studio. Interaction design of all Japanese input on WP7. Fast input method innovations over iPhone, keyboard layout edge cases, emoji organization & selection. #mobile #OS

iSchool

Starving grad student

Industry Role Context Impact Exit