UX & Product Design Manager

Options Clearing Corporation
September 2023 - Current

OCC is a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility. My role is to lead the strategy and direction of product design during a massive re-platforming, while managing a team of designers.

• Founded a collaborative design studio practice with an open, constructive and nimble team dynamic to streamline the problem solving process and cross pollination of ideas.
• Improved the agile project management process to facilitate more effective iteration and lean cross functional collaboration.
• Co-founded the ACCESS employee network group tasked with raising the standard of accessibility and inclusive design across the organization.
• Oversaw prototyping of high-impact projects, ensuring quality standards are met and guidelines are followed.
• Managed hiring, career development, and mentorship fostering growth and a high-performance culture.

Associate Principal: UX/UI Designer

Options Clearing Corporation
Feb 2023 - September 2023

• Led continuous improvement of design system and expansion into new patterns and platforms.
• Regularly presented design system progress and benefits to the larger organization, gaining buy-in and an expectation of design quality and consistency.
• Created icon system and loading mechanism to expand upon and better implement third party libraries.
• Defined information architecture library grouping commonly used patterns.
• Reorganized design system documentation for simpler maintenance and cross platform availability.

Senior Product Designer & Design System Lead

Domain Group
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023

• Led a cross-functional working group of designers and engineers, driving complex conversations across products and organizations to advocate for design excellence, shared patterns and components while leveraging the work of others across the company.
• Dramatically lowered cost and time required for a major rebrand thanks to considerate planning of a multi platform, multi brand design system.
• Influenced stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
• Shipped many product features across web, iOS and Android.

Senior Product Designer

Thinkmill
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020

• Served as lead designer and product manager for Vocal.media through audience growth to ~1M daily users.
• Helped the team Atlassian ship the first Design System for Forge UI.
• Contributed to internal design system development.

Senior Product Designer

Westfield AU/NZ (Scentre Group)
Jan 2017 - July 2019

• Served as principal designer for iOS and Android apps.
• Ran multiple design sprints to prototype new features for parking and dining experiences.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Westfield Labs
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017

• Developed custom web based mapping & wayfinding engine.
• Led front end engineering for touchscreen kiosks for London, LA and World Trade Center locations.
• Produced pilot robotics programme for wayfinding, physical data capture and same-day delivery experiments.
• Developed bluetooth based indoor navigation prototypes.
• Drove adoption of transformative technology such as React.js and WebGL.
• Created browser extensions used to automate cumbersome and complicated business processes.

Design Lead / Frontend Developer

Levo | Digital Transformation Agency
Nov 2012 - Mar 2014

• Designed and developed UI for Vodafone engineering progressive web app.
• Provided strategy and UI for NBNCo Document Management System.
• Provided strategy and UI for AMP Document Management System.

Cofounder

Exploding Box Productions
Mar 2010 - Mar 2014

• Developed groundbreaking system for automating promotional campaigns on Facebook. Licensed to major advertising agencies such as Publicis and M&C Saatchi.

UI Designer, Frontend Engineer

KND Digital Performance
Jan 2008 - Mar 2010

• Designed and provided frontend development for various web apps and sites

Graphic Designer

Neilson Communications
Jun 2007 - Jan 2008

• Provided in-store display print design and pre-production for clients including Nintendo, SEGA and Ubisoft.
• Designed consumer goods packaging.
• Designed corporate materials such as stationery and annual reports.