Senior Staff Product Designer with 16+ years of experience

Resume

Strategic thinker, hands-on maker, and design leader.
16+ yrs shipping experiences used by millions.

Education

Massachusetts College of Art & Design  Boston, MA  |  2007 – 2011
BFA Degree in Graphic Design

Buckinghamshire New University
England, UK  |  2005 – 2006
Completed 1 and 1/2 YRS of Advertising & Design Program

East Berkshire College
England, UK  |  2003 – 2005
National BTEC Diploma in Art & Design, AS/A2 Level in Traditional Dark Room Photography, Key Skills Level
Qualification in Computing

Skillsets

Design Strategy & Vision
Product & Platform Strategy
Executive Storytelling
Human-Centered AI Design
AI-Enabled Prototyping
User Research & Usability Testing
Cross-Functional Leadership
Workshop Facilitation
Design Mentorship & Coaching
Hiring & Team Building

References

Available upon request
LinkedIn recommendations

Experience

Connect with me on LinkedIn or grab my Resume.

I’m based in Massachusetts (EST) and work remotely with teams everywhere.
Feel free to reach out if interested in discussing any opportunities.


eBay  |  Senior Staff Product Designer

Remote  |  Mar 2023 –Present

Senior Staff Product Designer in the Buyer, Community & Search organization, leading horizontal initiatives across personalization, community, and discovery for 134M buyers. Previously design lead for the Fashion focus category.

  • Spearheaded size personalization from 0→1, creating the blueprint for personalization across eBay

  • Led 5+ designers to launch size personalization across complex fashion categories, securing C-suite buy-in

  • Identified critical market gaps through competitive analysis, shaping product strategy

  • Proactively pioneered new frameworks shaping the future of personalization and recommendations

  • Led cross-org discovery for redesigned member profiles, aligning 20+ partners across five teams

  • Created sprint models and ways of working adopted by teams across the org

  • Defined team mission and values through workshops that shaped design team culture

  • Mentored rising designers inside and outside eBay in strategy, storytelling, and craft


Twitter  |  Staff Product Designer (2022), Senior Product Designer (2021–⁠2022), Product Designer (2020-2021)

Remote  |  Sep 2020 –Nov 2022

Design lead on the Ad Formats team, owning strategy and design for new ad formats and monetization concepts, from early vision through execution.

  • Led creative innovation for Twitter’s ad experiences, driving impact for advertisers and the business

  • Balanced Twitter’s ad flywheel of people, advertisers, publishers, and the business, serving every side

  • Led design strategy for Amplify Sponsorships, Twitter’s fastest-growing brand revenue line (41% YoY)

  • Presented Amplify sponsorship concepts to top advertisers like Pepsi at Twitter’s Customer Summit

  • Drove the vision for Posters, a full-funnel ad format sized at a potential 5-10% revenue lift

  • Redesigned Conversation Cards into an interactive format, fast-tracked straight to beta

  • Led monetization visioning for Spaces, turning 200+ ideas into leadership-backed concepts


BetterUp  |  Senior Product Designer

Remote  |  Sep 2017 – Apr 2020

Product design lead across member and coach experiences, evolving the coaching platform through a period of rapid growth.

  • Led design and launched a relationship-driven product model in 4 months, enabling scale to 100K+ members

  • Designed On-Demand Coaching, connecting members with a coach 24/7 within one hour

  • Launched coach tools to re-engage disengaged members, quickly lifting coach NPS

  • Helped scale the design team from 2 to 10+ as a core hiring panel member

  • Established persona research methodology, turning generative insights into product strategy


Fitbit  |  Senior Product Designer (2016–⁠2017), Product Designer (2015–2016)

Boston, MA  |  July 2015 – Sep 2017

Product design lead for goal setting, weight, nutrition, and hydration experiences in the Fitbit app.

  • Led design to launch Personal Goal Setting, a CES-featured experience completed by millions

  • Designed feature improvements across weight, nutrition, and hydration, enhancing everyday health tracking

  • Partnered with product to shape strategy roadmap for weight and nutrition team

  • Co-led foundational research and persona development that grounded weight and nutrition product decisions

  • Presented interactive prototypes to the CEO and executive leadership, driving alignment on product direction


Delush Polish  |  Founder & CEO

Franklin, MA  |  Jan 2013 – Present

Delush Polish is a successful, eco-conscious, vegan nail brand that specializes in providing customers with unique shades that embrace creativity and individuality.

  • Designed, manufactured from scratch and launched over 150+ products

  • Built brand following across social media platforms to 45k+ followers

  • Crafted brand identity and developed product roadmap and yearly strategy

  • Photograph and edit all creative promotional collection imagery quarterly

  • Processing, packaging and shipment of products at a high volume

  • Expanded wholesale distribution and launched product in 10+ countries globally

  • Daily social media management and social media content creation

  • Customer care service provider


Isobar  |  Senior Visual Designer (2013–⁠2015), Visual Designer (2011–2013)

Boston, MA  |  May 2011 –  July 2015

Isobar is a global agency that delivers experience-led transformation, powered by creativity.

  • Conceptualized and executed compelling interactive experiences

  • Lead designer on NBC Sports' on-demand fitness streaming platform, Radius

  • Projects spanned web, mobile, tablet and streaming on-demand platforms 

  • Select clients: NBC Sports, HBO, Avis, Royal Caribbean, Reebok, Scottrade and Fidelity.


Wallwork Curry McKenna  |  Creative Studio Intern

Charlestown, MA  |  Jan 2011 – Apr 2011

Designed marketing initiatives and created digital/print assets for clients such as Summer Infant, Crystal Run Health Care, Harvard Pilgrim and AAA.


The Barbarian Group  |  Creative Design Intern

Boston, MA  |  Sep 2010 – Dec 2010

Created digital assets for branding materials for clients such as Sears, Kashi and Lenovo.


Brightcove, Inc  |  Creative Design Intern

Boston, MA  |  Sep 2010 – Dec 2010

Conceptualized and designed for digital and print marketing campaigns and provided user experience support.