Capabilities & Impact

Built and led high-performing design teams across industrial and UX disciplines, spanning consumer hardware, connected devices, and regulated product systems
Mentored designers through full product lifecycles, from concept to commercial launch
Established career development frameworks, performance reviews, and hiring practices
Fostered design culture within engineering-led organizations through cross-functional alignment and advocacy

Led the industrial design of complex electromechanical systems, connected consumer devices, handheld instruments, and multicomponent product families
Developed product design languages that strengthen brand identity and improve manufacturing efficiency
Collaborated with mechanical engineering and manufacturing to ensure DFM/DFA compliance, reduce part count, and optimize assembly
Delivered award-winning products spanning consumer health, diagnostics, and emerging technology platforms

Framed early product vision and business alignment through strategic storytelling, journey maps, and concept workshops
Facilitated design sprints and stakeholder workshops to align user needs with business and engineering constraints
Developed design strategies that translated to commercially viable, highly differentiated designs

Acted as design lead and strategic contributor within product core teams spanning engineering, marketing, clinical, quality, and operations
Presented product vision and design direction in executive design reviews and board meetings
Championed the role of design across functions — ensuring usability, feasibility, and viability are in balance
Contributed to design control processes, V&V documentation, and technical storytelling for executive and regulatory review

Led end-to-end human factors and interaction design programs — from contextual inquiry and task analysis through formative and summative validation — across consumer, clinical, and connected product systems
Designed and executed usability research protocols; managed participant recruitment, session moderation, behavioral data analysis, and reporting to inform design decisions and mitigate use-related risk
Translated behavioral data and usability metrics into design improvements, reducing use-related risk and strengthening product launch readiness
Translated interaction standards and regulatory guidance into actionable design requirements across hardware, software, labeling, and training materials
Delivered user-validated instructional and onboarding materials aligned with human factors best practices and product risk objectives
Oversaw HF consultants and third-party researchers, guiding protocol fidelity, study execution, and reporting quality
Partnered with engineering and quality teams to finalize human factors documentation supporting product submission and commercial launch

20+ global design awards (IDEA, Red Dot, Edison, MDEA, Core77, R&D 100, UX Design)
15+ named design patents across diagnostics, therapeutics, and digital health
Designed electromechanical and sensor-integrated products across categories, including connected consumer devices, digital health platforms, and human-machine interaction systems
Reduced onboarding time by 40% at clinical sites through multimedia training and usability refinement
Achieved <5% residual use-related risk in summative testing across >150 users
Authored human factors validation protocols and reports supporting regulatory and commercial product launch
Improved on-time design deliverables through agile planning and structured human factors milestone tracking
Drove end-to-end design and human factors strategy for the TriVerity platform — Red Dot & UX Design Award, 2024