Professional Summary
Extensive experience leading complex workflows, systems, and interaction design across AI healthcare, AI assistants, wearables, and consumer products.
Known for bringing clarity to ambiguous product spaces, aligning cross-functional teams, and delivering intuitive multi-platform experiences that improve usability, efficiency, and adoption at scale, including products that contributed to a 72% reduction in workflow time.
Expertise in zero-to-one product design, prototyping, and design-to-development workflows, with 8 issued patents across AI assistant and consumer technologies.
Core Competencies
User Experience (UX) Design
Voice UX
Human-Centered Design
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Generative AI
Conversational AI
LLM-Based Product Design
Mobile App Design
Interaction Design
B2B SaaS
High-Fidelity Prototyping
Design Systems
User Research
Usability Testing
Accessibility (WCAG)
Cross-Functional Collaboration
0-to-1 Product Design
Design Operations
Healthcare UX
Omnichannel UX
Figma
Sketch
InVision
Miro
Experience
Principal Product Designer
Suki AI
Sep 2018 - Apr 2026
Redwood City, CA
Redwood City, CA
- AI healthcare platform for ambient documentation and clinician workflows.
- Early design hire who helped scale the product from pre-seed to enterprise adoption, contributing to $165M+ raised and deployment across 200+ provider organizations.
- Led design of ambient AI documentation and voice workflows that contributed to a 72% reduction in workflow time and a 5% increase in encounter volume.
- Defined assistant experiences across mobile, browser, EHR, and dictation workflows, supporting broad clinical adoption and recognition, including Forbes AI 50 (2024) and a KLAS score of 93.2 (2024).
Suki Extension
Dictation Input
Product & UX Designer
Freelance
May 2017 - Sep 2018
SF Bay Area, CA
SF Bay Area, CA
- Delivered UX and product design consulting across multiple early-stage technology clients, spanning interaction design, prototyping, and design systems development.
Senior UX Designer
PCOM.io
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, CA
- Early-stage wearable startup exploring eyes-free, voice-first AI communication devices and services.
- Led early design and prototyping for a voice-first AI messaging platform spanning wearable hardware, cloud services, and companion apps, enabling fast, safe communication across people, assistants, and connected devices.
- Helped define one of the earliest AI pin-style wearable concepts, shaping interaction models for voice-first wearable experiences years ahead of the category's mainstream emergence.
PCOM
Senior UX Designer
Barnes & Noble (NOOK)
Jan 2010 - Jun 2016
Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara, CA
- A digital reading platform by Barnes & Noble spanning e-readers, tablets, and an integrated ebook marketplace.
- Contributed to the design and launch of NOOK Color, one of the earliest 7-inch LCD reader tablets, helping establish the UX foundation for subsequent NOOK devices and apps that supported nearly $1B in eReader and eContent revenue by 2012.
- Contributed to R&D efforts exploring tablet interaction models, including stylus-based input, while helping streamline reading controls across tablet and e-ink platforms.
- Helped unify the reading experience across devices, including NOOK GlowLight and mobile apps, through consistent interaction patterns and reading controls.
- Redesigned core reading tools, typography, and EPUB rendering in close partnership with publishers and engineers, improving readability, annotation, and long-form reading across form factors.
Affordable Pocket E-ink
Inline Annotation
Reader Interaction
Nook Glow Light
Issued Patents
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US 12,664,985 - Systems and methods configured to generate object vestiges based on audio information conveying natural speech, Suki AI, Inc. (2026)
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US 12,340,882 - Systems and methods to cause annotation transfers between client computing platforms, Suki AI, Inc. (2025)
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US 10,585,563 - Accessible reading mode techniques for electronic devices, NOOK Digital, LLC (2020)
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US 9,658,746 - Accessible reading mode techniques for electronic devices, NOOK Digital, LLC (2017)
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US 9,575,948 - Annotation of digital content via selective fixed formatting, NOOK Digital, LLC (2017)
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US 9,436,357 - System and method for creating and viewing comic book electronic publications, NOOK Digital, LLC (2016)
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US 9,195,373 - System and method for navigation in an electronic document, NOOK Digital, LLC (2015)
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US 9,128,608 - System and method for an electronic reader that allows access to additional content and tools, NOOK Digital, LLC (2015)
Education
Los Angeles Valley College
Design & Visual Communication