Software Design

M is a versatile Principal Designer with extensive experience in pioneering innovative technologies.

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  • Leads cross-org, multi-disciplinary teams to collaborate, define scope, and define path for teams to follow to production in problem areas with little to no existing definition

  • Top Organizations including Microsoft, Y Combinator Research, and SAP

  • Process: Understand the needs and preferences users, Identify pain points, Create user profiles, Analyze technical capabilities, Synthesize research insights, Define problem, Identify key features, Create user journey, Communicate with stakeholders, Design prototypes, Collaborate with engineering on alpha, Test prototype, Synthesize feedback in to next steps, Iterate, Develop beta, and Package research, designs, an iteration roadmap for launch and maintenance team.

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Testimonials

M takes on big idea new business incubations from design standpoint and goes from ambiguous requirements to highly effective user experiences.

M works quickly across a wide range of projects targeted at users across consumers, gamers, developers, data scientists, graphic artists, and others and utilizing all kinds of technologies.

M is very agile, context switches quickly and comes at really challenging user problems and opportunities with such a fresh perspective. They have great problem-solving skills, beautiful aesthetics/design and are a deep advocate for the user.

M has taught our team new skills for adaptive and inclusive work and team building practices that I value so deeply.

M has helped make me a better leader. And M is a kind, thoughtful, and joyful human who has added so much to the character of our team. Anyone who gets to work with M will find M an amazing collaborator!”

-Andrea Harrison, Senior Director, Global Product Innovation, Microsoft

M's ability to create visually stunning designs and translate complex ideas into easy-to-understand prototypes is truly remarkable. I am consistently impressed by M's attention to detail and the ability to ask the further pertinent questions necessary for breakthrough innovation.

-Taylor Black, Principal PgM Incubation Studio, Venture Ecosystem, Microsoft

If work is like climbing a mountain, you want M to be the lead. M has the ability to discover, test out, and report back on new ventures and technologies and they do so fearlessly.

-Laura Borner, Marketing + Communications, Microsoft

M’s superpowers include, designing prototypes from the most rudimentary of ideas and refining them based on user feedback, creating user flows that fit users' pipelines and mental models, distilling complex ideas into sticky graphics, brainstorming, and bringing clarity to ambiguity…to name a few.

They are simultaneously quirky and deeply serious in their approach to projects and people. They possess a great sense of humor, kindness, and joy in their work with others. They are clear about their working style and needs, which I've observed allows others to let down their guard and work in a nimble, iterative fashion.

M is highly collaborative, consistently looking for opportunities to step in and support colleagues. They have a role up their sleeves attitude, pitching in to get shit done.”

- Amanda Snellinger, Senior User Researcher, Microsoft

Artificial intelligence

5 years experience working in Generative AI, Synthetic Data, and Automation including facilitating initial project definition and identification, problem framing, research design, requirement elicitation and modeling, wireframing, prototyping iterations, and collaborating with engineering on architecture design and requirements.

Spatial and Wearable

Featured Project

Spatial Computing, Robotics, and Mobile: Data Center Maintenance

M is a design thinker who turns work around quickly, enabling the tight, iterative, feedback loops that early-stage product design requires.

-Tim Laverty, Partner, Technical Advisor to the CTO, Microsoft

Biomedical