Senior Product Engineer with strong experience in design, creation, and improvement of scalable web applications. Proven track record as team lead for business-critical initiatives at a Fortune 100 company, with demonstrated results in project leadership and cross-functional team growth.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | San Diego, California
Lead Design Engineer responsible for the user experience (UX), development, and improvement of new and existing tools focused on Open Source usage and strategy.
Created and articulated scalable and extensible design solutions to solve complex multi-domain business needs. Drove technical discussions through design principles, emphasizing the importance of information architecture and a user-first approach.
Concept-to-completion software development, including requirements gathering, processes definition, architecture, design, prototypes, user research, engineering, functional- and user-testing, documentation, and operational reviews.
Synthesized user requirements, project schedules, and engineering resources to enhance existing applications and improve efficiency of analyst workloads across multiple projects.
Product ownership for the successful launch of third-party Open Source distribution platform, including vision storytelling, business process automation, engineering training, operational procedures, matrix team management, and communications.
Managed Agile-based development sprints and roadmap planning for multiple concurrent enterprise projects.
Qualcomm | San Diego, California
Designed, developed, and delivered best-practice and standards-based solutions to Finance, Human Resources, Engineering, and IT teams across the company.
Lead UI/UX Architect for web and mobile projects from concept to completion, collaborating with stakeholders, engineers, and end users to achieve cross-functional business goals.
Pioneered Qualcomm’s first internal design system based on corporate marketing’s brand toolkit, establishing style guides and best-practice resources around user experience considerations for engineering teams developing internal applications.
Provided UI/UX leadership and consulting to internal application development teams, working through ambiguity to define processes, inspire look and feel, and consolidate product vision.
Qualcomm Inc. | San Diego, California
Enabled business partner collaboration services as UI/UX expert in IT Advanced Technologies group by designing, delivering, and improving a web-based document exchange system and an accompanying identity management interface.
An independent case study example of ingesting a package.json file to report on a project's license composition. Includes project brief, mockup, and sample application.
An Open Source software distribution platform partnership with Linaro Ltd. focused on security, automation, and customer success.
Partnered with senior leadership on migration activities for a global Engineering organization to new business process automation and security practices related to the publishing of Open Source software.
Acted as primary liaison and User Experience consultant to the Linaro engineering team, focusing on UI/UX best practices for partner enablement and customer success.
Led the Operations track; established internal practices and procedures including engineering user guides, operational playbooks, live and recorded trainings, and more.
A system of record for Open Source software composition created to address the question, “What Open Source is used in my product?”
Led the user experience design for new legal analysis tooling; delivered persuasive design arguments resulting in improved analyst efficiency by negating the need for repetitive scanning and review of subsequent software versions.
Designed and produced software bill of materials (SBOM) reports for compliance teams to understand the overall licensing and copyright concerns for a given product tree.
User Experience (UX) Design, Front-End Engineering, User Interface (UI) Design, Prototyping, Technical Communications, Web Technologies, Software Development Lifecycle, Strategic Thinking, Product Management, Business Process, Enterprise Architecture, Visual Design, Project Planning, Javascript, CSS, HTML, React, Redux, Sass, Typescript, GitHub / git, Axure RP, Adobe Creative Suite, Balsamiq, Agile Development, Best Practices, Code Reviews, User Testing, Software Design, Web Applications, Application Development, Collaborative, Mentorship, Friendly, Inclusive, Requirements Gathering, Solutions Architecture
Languages: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, some Python
Tools: Typescript, Node, React, Redux, Sass, Stylus, Github/git, Axure RP, Balsamiq, Adobe Creative Suite
Bachelor’s Degree, English (Creative Writing)
San Diego State University
Linux Foundation Open Source Summit | Shifting Compliance to the Left | Lyon, France, 2019
Qualcomm Open Source Summit | Principal Design Chair | 2017 – 2023
The Presentation Layer (Qualcomm-internal event) | Principal Organizer | 2014