Founding member of AdColony Product Design and Creative Services teams. Saw business from early-stage startup through successful exit of $350M by Opera Software in 2014 and continued growth to an 800+ employee, world-wide organization.
I am a Product Designer with a background in designing enterprise dashboards, operations tools, creative ad unit builders, and other business critical products. I love to dive deep into research, simplify the complex, and collaborate with tightly-knit, cross-functional teams. As a manager I believe in recognition, transparency, and iterative learning.
I am also an experienced Product Manager with insight into conceptualizing, planning, and success-tracking of short and long term features; writing and organizing clear feature specification documents; and successfully managing the product development cycle to impact and increase performance metrics.
Founding member of AdColony Product Design and Creative Services teams. Saw business from early-stage startup through successful exit of $350M by Opera Software in 2014 and continued growth to an 800+ employee, world-wide organization.
I am a Product Designer with a background in designing enterprise dashboards, operations tools, creative ad unit builders, and other business critical products. I love to dive deep into research, simplify the complex, and collaborate with tightly-knit, cross-functional teams. As a manager I believe in recognition, transparency, and iterative learning.
I am also an experienced Product Manager with insight into conceptualizing, planning, and success-tracking of short and long term features; writing and organizing clear feature specification documents; and successfully managing the product development cycle to impact and increase performance metrics.
Senior Manager, Product Design
Liftoff / Vungle
Apr 2021 — Present
Head of Product Design for all customer facing product lines including Liftoff Direct, Vungle Monetize, Tresensa Ad Builder, Jetfuel Influencer Marketing, and Gamerefinery Market Intelligence. Owned Integration Product Strategy integrating several products and services as cross functional features available to several customer cohorts. Worked cross functionally align product development process across all product teams where user experience requirements are involved.
Director, Design & Product Management
AdColony
Jan 2018 — Mar 2021
Product owner of the Portal, the central operations and analytics dashboard of the organization. I act as the single point of contact for global commercial and operation teams with regard to feature development, onboarding, and support throughout the Portal. I also lead strategy, vision, and rationale for all feature development and ensure mission critical features are translated into usable features within the scope of available resources. I also partner with other Product Managers and Product Teams to execute product features with cross-product dependencies. On top of all that, I still run the full Product Design pipeline for the Portal (Operations and Analytics Dashboard) while leading design efforts on Composer (Rich Media Ad Unit Builder).
Director, Product Design
AdColony
Apr 2014 — Dec 2018
Led and managed an incredible group of hybrid UX and Visual Product Designers unifying design vision and voice across all product lines, mentoring talent, fostering career growth, running critiques and user interviews, and ensuring first-class user experience execution through all user-facing products across the AdColony organization. Built design team of 5 Product Designers servicing over 10+ product lines across web, iOS, and Android.
Creative Director
AdColony
Feb 2011 — Mar 2014
Responsible for all aspects of design throughout the organization including Creative Services (Interactive and Motion Graphics), Brand Identity Marketing, and UI/UX Design. Grew an incredible team of designers (comprised of both employees and contractors) from the ground up producing award winning Interactive and Video Creative for Fortune 500 companies and top mobile gaming companies. Notable Brand clients include: Disney, Nike, McDonalds, Toyota, P&G, Unilever, Microsoft, Samsung; notable Performance clients include: Supercell, Rovio, Zynga, Machine Zone.
Creative Lead
Jirbo, Inc.
Jan 2009 — Jan 2011
Web Designer / Front End Developer
UCLA Arts
Sep 2008 — Jul 2009
Primary Guide
UCLA Outdoor Adventures
Sep 2007 — Jul 2009
If you've made it this far down the page, and still want to learn a little more about me, you can check out some photos I've posted to Instagram. I'm very dedicated to getting outside as often as I can, especially to climb, surf, hike, and spending time with great folks.
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