Core Competencies
Application Design | Enterprise Architecture | Product Ownership | Front-End Engineering
Strategic Planning | System Architecture | User Interface (UI) Design | Usability
Communications | Process Design | Creative Problem Solving | UI/UX Prototyping
Product lead for a suite of tools created to facilitate appropriate Open Source usage for all Qualcomm-distributed Open Source software. Cross-functional process considerations included licensing and legal parameters, engineering requirements, and compliance concerns.
Designated Project Lead for CodeLinaro, a platform partnership between Qualcomm and Linaro for the distribution of Open-Source code and artifacts related to Qualcomm software releases. Managed roadmap planning and agile-based development for an engineering team during and beyond the successful transition to this new system and process, where we added automation, enhanced security, and other key features to enable external business partners to download and build software products. Leadership, Python, JSON-API, Operations
Served as Product Owner for Codescan, a web application created to identify and resolve licensing, copyright, and other legal concerns related to the applied usage of Open Source in Qualcomm-authored software. Continuously improved processes and user interfaces to reduce workloads and review timing for analysts, engineers, and legal customers. Javascript, vdom/Mercury.js, Stylus, CSS, JSON-API
Designed and implemented features and processes for Software Product Registry (SPR), a system-of-record for declarative Open-Source software composition. Shifting Qualcomm engineering to a declarative model enabled reuse of legal analysis and comments, reducing manual efforts drastically for every subsequent software release. React, Typescript, Redux.js, Node.js, Sass, CSS, JSON-API
As Product Design Lead I contributed to team-, product-, and organizational-level strategic vision and roadmap planning alongside program management, stakeholders, and senior leadership. Drove technical conversations in design reviews, project reviews, and project meetings to increase effectiveness of software functionality in meeting stakeholder and user needs.
Organizational SME for multi-disciplinary communications, including companywide messaging, end-user and operational documentation, process diagrams, UI/UX prototypes, public presentations, and internal event collateral. Balsamiq, Axure RP, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio
Mentored junior engineers via code reviews and paired-programming to increase the quality and quantity of contributions across the software development lifecycle, resulting in shorter delivery timelines and more features per release cycle.
Product design lead for mobile and desktop web applications servicing IT needs across the company, including mobile application store, enterprise social, company directory, and various mobile initiatives.
Designed and implemented a wide variety of application interfaces, including mobile applications showcasing integrations with various enterprise systems such as finance, human resources, timecards and more. These applications enabled process automation, custom request management and review, and shortened approval cycles for many common business functions. Javascript, Node.js, Meteor.js, Sass, CSS, HTML, Balsamiq, Axure RP, Photoshop
Acted as UI/UX Architect, frequently consulted by engineering teams for ongoing process and experience improvements in business-critical applications. Designed wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes for a diverse range of enterprise application use cases.
Selected as Product Owner for QWall, a CIO-sponsored touch-screen installation in six locations around the globe that surfaced internal social channels to promote company culture and increase cohesion across the business. Product ownership, logistics, operations, touch-screen interface design
Design Lead for a variety of intranet web sites and IT tooling, including aggregated system monitoring, service request queues, company directory, group management, and more. Javascript, CSS, Java/Spring, ASP
Designed and implemented dozens of intranet sites for various teams across the company. Customers included Finance, Desktop Field Services, MIS Operations, Purchasing, Library, Facilities Management and more.
Front-End Lead for QDoc and QAdmin, Qualcomm’s first secure extranet-based partner document exchange system. QAdmin provided distributed three-tier administration capabilities, enabling business partners to exert comprehensive control over their content. Qdoc's customizable UI allowed external entities to provide branding and theme elements to enhance the user experience. Javascript, CSS, XSLT, PL/SQL
Bachelor’s degree, San Diego State University, 1991
JavaScript, CSS, HTML, some Python
Typescript, NodeJS, React, Redux, Sass, Stylus, Mercury.js (unidirectional FRP-style JS library built on top of virtual-dom), Meteor.js (isomorphic JS library built on NodeJS), Github, git
Linux Foundation Open Source Summit | Shifting Compliance to the Left | Lyon, France, 2019
Qualcomm Open Source Summit | Principal Design Chair | 2017 – 2023
The Presentation Layer | Principal Organizer | 2014 (Qualcomm-internal event by employees, for employees)