Summary of Qualifications

Experience Design Leader & Innovator with 20+ years of digital and design experience, passionate about leading teams to think outside of the box and develop forward-thinking solutions

  • Build and scale design organizations that solve business and consumer challenges

  • Develop design systems, successfully innovate through design thinking

  • People-first leader and influencer

 

Select Clients & Partners

SAMSUNG | VODAFONE | BARCLAYS | HONDA | CAPGEMINI | BNP PARIBAS | DELL EMC

 

Work

Nov 2018 — Present

1+ year

UX Design Consultant, Coach, Investor — Self-Employed

  • Consult in product design, providing strategy, design, and marketing services.

  • Coach, mentor design professionals with AIGA, and female students in STEM with Junior Achievement.

  • Invested in women-led ventures with SheEO, funding 5 sustainable businesses

7 years

Thomson Reuters, San Francisco

 

May 2014 — Nov 2018

Head of Product Design, Innovation

Led the design of new and innovative products using big data, AI, VR.

Leadership

  • Member of the executive leadership team

  • Managed a design organization to drive innovation for news, financial, and legal markets.

  • Facilitated workshops across functions, customers and partners, identifying 12 new business opportunities and leading to the opening of TR’s innovation lab in Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Conducted corporate-wide training on Design Thinking and Google Ventures Design Sprint.

Product Development & Innovation

  • Designed and shipped new products for desktop and devices, including the Eikon Intelligence apps and a documentary in virtual reality, generating $2M in revenue.

  • Pitched and designed TR’s first customer service virtual assistant, generating $½M cost saving

  • Experimented with data-driven solutions using AI, machine learning and NLP.

  • Contributed to the Corporate Innovation Playbook.

 

Jun 2011 — Apr 2014

Head of Product Design, Mobile

Ran a mobile design team responsible for global app design across news, legal, scientific, financial and accounting industries.  

  • Member of the executive leadership team

  • Built and scaled a UX design team, designing over 30 B2B and B2C mobile apps.

  • Implemented a corporate design system for mobile

  • Reviewed and approved all mobile apps for app store submissions.

  • Led partnership with Apple, and engagement with external design agencies. 

Oct 2003 — May 2011

8 years

Founder, Lead Product Designer — Bamboudesign, San Francisco & Paris

  • Founded and ran two digital consulting studios in the Bay Area and Europe 

  • Designed and developed 20+ business and consumer iOS and web applications

  • Recruited, managed a small team of designers and a developer

  • Gained mobile design expertise in the early years of iTunes Store

May 2005 — Dec 2007

2 years

Web Producer, Change Management Consultant — Capgemini, Paris

Facilitated high-performance group creativity and collaboration, and produced online resources to help large organizations make crucial strategic decisions, within Capgemini’s Accelerated Solutions Environment

Dec 2000 — Mar 2003

2 years

International eCommerce Manager — Adobe (Macromedia), San Francisco

Managed the development & localization of international e-commerce platforms and websites.

Sep 1994 — Nov 2000

6 years

Web Producer & Designer — various companies

Led a web team to design and develop the online presence and marketing campaigns for BNP Paribas, LVMH, Promodes Group, and startups in France & San Francisco Bay Area.

Education, Skills & Interests

West Chester State University, PA | BS in Business Management

Groupe De Bissy University, Paris | BA in Business Management, Marketing & Communications

Tech Skills — Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq

Language Skills — Fluent English and French; conversational Spanish

Interests — Arts & crafts | travel | health & wellness | coach, mentor | social impact

Thought Leadership 

Speaker and Facilitator – UX & Mobile Design | Design Strategy & Innovation | Design Thinking & Lean Design | Google’s Design Sprint | Co-creation | Women in Leadership | Diversity & Inclusion

Passed Venues: Grace Hopper Celebration, Adobe, Vodafone, Meetups, podcasts, schools.

 
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Founder of the iOS Network Lounge Meetup Group, one of San Francisco’s first and largest iOS Meetup group (1000 members in 2018, closed)

 

#Skills

Product design, User Experience Design, UI, UX, interaction design, user research, design thinking, design sprints, lean UX, workshop facilitation, experimentation, prototyping, testing, usability, iterations, problem solving, human interaction design, B2B, B2C, design systems, mobile design, ios, android, VR, virtual reality, AI, artificial intelligence, chatbot, Machine Learning, entrepreneurship, business acumen, leadership, facilitation, change management, Diversity and Inclusion, thought leadership, management, ecommerce, mentoring, coaching, recruiting, business, global, communications, relationship, self-awareness