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Adobe
Own the AI experience transformation across Adobe CX Cloud, leading three engineering teams to launch both the Experience Cloud AI Assistant and CX Coworker Exterprise. Bring deep technical, data science and startup-built product instincts into a highly engineering-driven organization, defining how enterprise users discover, trust, and collaborate with generative AI across applications as well as developing novel AI systems from the ground up
Case Study and Free Library: How Our Design Team Solved for Tailwind-Figma Compatibility
This deep dive takes you through our design team's journey to create a highly flexible component library, our learnings, and the dead-ends we faced, and how we got to a killer (and now open-source) solution
Ugly Duckling Consulting
Serving as the Fractional Head of Design for multiple startups, I bringing strategic leadership to align products, services, and brand with the needs of their target audience. By focusing on the end-user, we help our clients drive engagement, loyalty, and growth. Reached customers in FinTech, Medical, Marketing and Network Security space.
Relationship preserving projection of digital objects
Room capture and Projection
System and method for automated application programming interface generation
Neo.tax
Reporting directly to the CEO as a member of the executive staff, I led the design team, making significant contributions to Neo.Tax's growth and success, as stated by customers. My innovative UI/UX strategies and designs played a pivotal role in differentiating Neo.Tax, as cited by Thomson Reuters during their investment.
The Table Scrolling Battle: Infinite vs. Pagination
Oh, the data table, the workhorse of the enterprise application. This is one of the most common UI elements. Yet even with its ubiquity, there remains a battle on the table scrolling functionality; pagination versus infinite scroll. But before we get into the battle, let’s set some context. On traditional dashboards, where there are a …
Automated API generation
Why UI Takes So Long To Build
We all use UI. Log into Gmail — UI. Need to update Salesforce — UI again. Even using your desktop OS — one more UI. Front-ends seem so ubiquitous, so how hard can they be to make? But when you get into building and maintaining complex software — somehow the UI piece seems to take …
Interactive display
Playbook-based security investigations using a card system framework
Performance tracking in a security information sharing platform
Privacy preservation while sharing security information
Tagged content distribution
Card system framework
Security investigations using a card system framework
Dataset browsing using additive filters
Force Feedback
Digital note manipulation
One is not the whole | Egocentric Intuition Fallacy
When you have an idea for a new feature or product, all you want to do is “go go go!” It is that drive that turns great concepts into company success. But time and again, there is one wrinkle that keeps us from effectively executing on those ideas: the egocentric intuition fallacy. The egocentric intuition …
Sympathetic Highlighting | Too Much Data, Too Little Information
Very often, we have an excessive amount of information that we want to share with our end users. And because this data happens to share a similar axis (e.g. time) or axes (e.g. time and volume) we end up layering this data into one massive visualization, which is a tempting idea. Often the data to …
Optical Illusions in Visualizations
There are numerous English idioms that are used when talking about visualizations;“A picture is worth a thousand words,” and “Show, don’t tell.” These sentiments are not limited to English. In Chinese, there is an expression ”hearing something a hundred times isn’t better than seeing it once”; in Russian “the drawing shows me at one glance …
Pagination point identification
Kleeen Software
Brought on a sales-focused CEO to accelerate revenue growth, enabling me to focus on product management, engineering, and design, ensuring the continued development of industry-leading solutions that met evolving customer needs.
Served as CEO and CPO, driving strategic direction, product innovation, and securing $5.3M in venture funding. My leadership and focus on agile methodologies, allowed our UI/UX automation platform to provide 75% faster time to release and 85% lower development costs for our diverse customer base. Spun off Kleeen Software from Kleeen Studio with sufficient revenue to bootstrap $200K of the startup prior to securing an additional $5.3 Million in funding to support the organization.
Context based mobile device
Kleeen Studio, LLC
I established a thriving design and development studio that generated over $4M in annual revenue. Our team's innovative solutions and strategic contributions played instrumental roles in our clients' successes, including Cumulus Networks' acquisition by Nvidia, Lacework’s Series D funding, unifying HPE Aruba’s brand with their product UI and designing HPE Aruba’s new website design and blog voice.
The Visual Scientist – Science is Beautiful
The Visual Scientist is the husband-and-wife team of Joshua Hailpern and Marina Danilevsky, two veterans of many papers, talks, posters, and conferences. Joshua and Marina hold PhDs in Computer Science, in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Data Mining, respectively. We presented 3 guides for scientists, to make the visual design of Tables, Academic Posters, and Charts simpler …
Ugly Duckling Consulting
Founded Ugly Duckling Consulting, a B2B consulting firm that tackles problems based on the impact to individuals through user-centric design. We combine data analytics, brand identity development, and intuitive UX to create meaningful experiences that resonate with end-users. When engaged by clients, I serve as their Fractional Chief Design Officer, bringing strategic leadership to align products, services, and brand with the needs of their target audience. By focusing on the end-user, we help our clients drive engagement, loyalty, and growth.
Presenting documents to a user based on topics and collective opinions expressed in the documents
Niara (acquired by Aruba Networks an HPE Company)
As the Head of Design at Niara (later Distinguished Technologist at HPE Aruba), I played a pivotal role in driving UI/UX innovation and strategic product initiatives that explicitly cited in us winning $10m+ bake-offs to high-profile clients such as Microsoft and NYSE, and subsequent successful acquisition.
Mobile web-based platform for providing a contextual alignment view of a corpus of documents
HPE ArcSight
Product managed, designed (UI/UX), and led engineering (data science and software architect) for current and future products and new software platform development. Further, evaluated startups for potential acquisition by HPE ArcSight.
Best Paper Award
Nominated for Best Paper
David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award
HP Labs
Created multiple award-winning research systems (prototype and internally deployed platforms) at the intersection of UI/UX, visual design, data science (AI, pattern mining, text analytics, and data modeling) leading two teams of developers. Functioned as project’s product manager, software architect, and researcher
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
Focus: Human-Computer Interaction + Data Sciences
Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Honorable Mention for Graduate Research Fellowship
Dennis Weatherstone Fellowship
Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities Student Design Gold Award
Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence Award
Master of Science in Computer Science
Focus: Human-Computer Interaction
Master Thesis: The Spoken Impact Project: Using Audio & Visual Feedback to Impact Vocalization in Non-Verbal Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
VCode and VData: Illustrating a new Framework for Supporting the Video Annotation Workflow
1st Place – Graduate Student Research Competition
Cultural Computing Fellowship
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors
Minor in Music Technology
Senior Thesis: Distributed Detection of New Virus Threats in Large Scale Networks