Experience

Sensel

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Software and User Experience

  • Jan 2022 - 2 years

  Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Director of Software and User Experience

  • May 2021 - Dec 2021

  Sunnyvale, California, United States

• Director Of User Experience

  • Jul 2018 - May 2021

  Sunnyvale, CA

• Principal User Experience Designer

  • May 2016 - Jul 2018

  Mountain View, CA



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Design Technologist and Research Scientist

  • Jan 2010 - Apr 2016

  Sunnyvale, CA • Led design technology efforts at R&D team that produced the Kindle Voyage PagePress feature, the Dash ordering button, and the Dash wand for Amazon Fresh. • Led cross-device interaction design for Amazon Second Screen experience. Worked with design and software teams to ensure a consistent experience for video, music, and photos on the Kindle Fire tablets, Fire Phone, and Fire TV. • Developed image and text quality prototypes leading to adoption of a high-DPI display in the Kindle… Show more • Led design technology efforts at R&D team that produced the Kindle Voyage PagePress feature, the Dash ordering button, and the Dash wand for Amazon Fresh. • Led cross-device interaction design for Amazon Second Screen experience. Worked with design and software teams to ensure a consistent experience for video, music, and photos on the Kindle Fire tablets, Fire Phone, and Fire TV. • Developed image and text quality prototypes leading to adoption of a high-DPI display in the Kindle Paperwhite. • Developed product proposals via iterative design and prototyping using emerging touch, force, Wi-Fi, and other sensors, as well as reflective and head-up display technologies. Evaluated these for product-readiness and fit with product and user experience strategy. • Maintained user experience vision and quality during technology transfer to product teams for several unreleased products. • Ran and analyzed concept testing and usability evaluations. • Advised hardware and software teams to ensure tight integration between UX design and technology capabilities. • Contributed to dozens of patents filed for Amazon’s intellectual property portfolio. Show less



Touchco

• Interaction Research and Development Lead

  • Jul 2009 - Jan 2010

  New York, NY • Recruited by a successful technology startup to lead user experience development. • Developed interaction methods for a new force-sensing multi-touch sensor. • Developed algorithms for contact extraction and tracking from raw sensor data, and for palm and pen detection, as well as methods for sensor calibration and testing. • Developed new input device concepts and drafted patent applications. • Designed and documented touch library APIs.



Inria

• France
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

  Paris Area, France • Designed and prototyped new touchscreen input techniques and methods for navigating large network visualizations. • Designed, conducted, and analyzed usability studies of these methods, and published findings in peer-reviewed conferences.



University of Toronto

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Feb 2007 - Jul 2008

  Toronto, Canada • Developed new touch- and pen-based input methods, feedback mechanisms for touch input, and interaction with peripheral displays. • Supervised research on haptic feedback techniques, search-based interfaces, and alertness-monitoring in sleep patients.



Brown University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 1999 - Dec 2006

  Providence, Rhode Island • Developed new methods for multi-touch interaction, document navigation, animation sketching, and immersive 3D illustration. • Conducted and published usability and human-factors studies. • Authored and presented course lectures. Supervised undergraduate research projects.



The University of Tokyo

• Japan
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • May 2004 - Aug 2004

  Tokyo, Japan • Developed a multi-touch performance animation technique based on a fast con-straint-based shape deformation method. • Deformation method has been independently integrated into Adobe Photoshop and related software.



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • 2001 - 2003

  Redmond, WA • Developed and evaluated methods for reflowable digital ink annotations resulting in a conference publication and two patents.