Lead the UX efforts to deliver great customer experiences by working with multiple teams across the company. My main focuses are the website and the mobile apps. I also cover other UX related areas such as emails and promotional banners. Other than that, I work on branding projects at a limited capacity.
UX designer, Microsoft Bing Studios
October, 2010 - Auguest, 2014
Designed image search result page (2011 release). Drove social side bar tablet integration efforts. Built prototypes for search result page framework explorations for the past three releases. Also worked on several social search incubation projects. Recently completed a collaborative project in developing the Applications and Services Group's vision.
UX designer, Microsoft Live Labs
June, 2007 - September, 2010
Developed early visual concepts and XAML control templates for Pivot. Other shipped projects included: online list app Listas, search and collect concept Circle of Live, Winter Olympics icons (internal), zoom.it website, and a few other incubation projects.
UX designer, Microsoft Office Design Group
July, 2004 - June, 2007
Collaborated and delivered several design projects for Office 2007: ribbon visual, control states, control icons, and PowerPoint templates. Proposed and influenced visual design langue for Office 2007's brand refresh. Also involved in Office 2010's early visual language exploration.
education
2001 - 2004
California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts)
B.F.A. in Graphic Design + Media Concentration
skills
Creating detailed concept design sketches and delivering refined and feasible user experience.
Creating interactive prototypes in various fidelities and multiple platforms to explore and validate design concepts with HTML/CSS/JQuery/Framer
Scoping design problems and providing multiple solutions from a system prospective.
Adapting various visual styles for different purposes or requirements.