Capabilities & Impact

Leadership & Team Development

• Built and led high-performing design teams across industrial and UX disciplines, supporting FDA-cleared diagnostic and therapeutic products

• 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.

Industrial Design & Product Realization

• Led the industrial design of complex systems, handheld instruments, and disposables

• Developed product design languages that strengthen brand identity and improve manufacturing efficiency

• Collaborated with ME and manufacturing to ensure DFM/DFA compliance, reduce part count, and optimize assembly

• Delivered products that won Red Dot, UX Design, and Edison Awards

Strategic Design & Concept Development

• Framed early product vision and business alignment through strategic storytelling, journey maps, and concept workshops

• Facilitated design sprints and KOL sessions to align user needs with business and engineering constraints

• Developed design strategies that translated to commercially viable, highly differentiated designs

Usability, Human Factors & Regulatory Design

• Managed end-to-end usability efforts: user research, task analysis, formative and summative validation

• Translated IEC 62366-1 requirements into usable, compliant systems for IVD instruments and accessories

• Authored user-facing labeling, IFUs, quick start guides, and UI copy in alignment with FDA and ISO requirements

• Reduced use-related risk to acceptable levels through iterative evaluation and cross-functional risk management

Cross-functional Product Development

• Acted as design lead and strategic contributor within product core teams (engineering, marketing, clinical, QA/RA, 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

• Helped drive 510(k) submissions and verification/validation documentation

Results Snapshot

• 20+ global design awards (Red Dot, Edison, IDEA, MDEA, R&D 100, UX Design, among others)

• 15+ named design patents

• Reduced TriVerity onboarding time by 40% through multimedia training programs

• Improved on-time design deliverables through agile workflows and structured performance tracking

• Drove industrial design vision for TriVerity IVD platform (Red Dot & UX Design Award, 2024)