Experience

Design Run Group

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Feb 2019 - Present

  Design Run Group is a venture studio (pursuing Certified B Corp status) that partners with health organizations to create new companies that build innovative human-centered solutions to serve the health & wellness needs of vulnerable communities, and beyond. Design Run Group is a venture studio (pursuing Certified B Corp status) that partners with health organizations to create new companies that build innovative human-centered solutions to serve the health & wellness needs of vulnerable communities, and beyond.



DesignRun.Org

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Executive Director

  • Feb 2019 - Present

  We introduce promising health solutions into communities with unmet needs and share relevant and impactful solutions that transform health experiences with organizations that would otherwise not have access to them. We introduce promising health solutions into communities with unmet needs and share relevant and impactful solutions that transform health experiences with organizations that would otherwise not have access to them.



BB Imaging and Consulting

• Board Member

  • Jul 2020 - Present



Consultant / Self-Employed

• Individual and Family Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Innovation Strategy and Consumer Experience Design

  • Feb 2013 - Present

  Design thought leadership and innovation coaching to Mexican companies trying to expand or build innovation capabilities. Work on future product/service strategy and organizational readiness for innovation anchored in human centered market opportunities. Design thought leadership and innovation coaching to Mexican companies trying to expand or build innovation capabilities. Work on future product/service strategy and organizational readiness for innovation anchored in human centered market opportunities.



The University of Texas at Austin

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor of Practice, School of Design and Creative Technologies, College of Fine Arts

  • Apr 2015 - Aug 2019

• Associate Professor of Medical Education, Dell Medical School

  • Apr 2015 - Dec 2018



Design Institute for Health

• United States
• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder, Managing Director

  • Mar 2015 - Dec 2018



IDEO

• United States
• Design Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Lead, Systems Design

  • 2012 - Mar 2015

  Global Lead of the Systems Design community. Ensured teams made sense of complex challenges across different industries with the goal of designing and conducting experiments that moved clients beyond their current paradigm. Amassed and built leading edge insights that helped shape 5-10 year out innovation strategies for companies in Furniture, Sporting Goods/Apparel, Packaged Goods, Consumer Electronics, Telecommunication, Business/Enterprise Solutions, Transportation/Automotive, HealthCare/Wellness and Government and Non-Government organizations domestically and abroad.

• Product Designer / Domain Lead - Sustainability

  • Sep 2004 - Mar 2015

  Product Designer and Project Lead through all phases of product development, from opportunity finding and strategy to brand execution, detailed design and manufacturing liaison. Later served as a domain and community lead around IDEO's global initiative around Design for Sustainability.



JGL Design and Construction Management

• Design & Build Staff

  • 2002 - 2004

  Designed interior and exterior features of an institutional building and then helped orchestrate the construction of all building assemblies. Designed interior and exterior features of an institutional building and then helped orchestrate the construction of all building assemblies.



Ford Motor Company

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Design Intern / Researcher

  • 2000 - 2000

  Participated in the product design of I.C.E. systems and later conducted sponsored graduate research for Ford in vehicle dynamics. Participated in the product design of I.C.E. systems and later conducted sponsored graduate research for Ford in vehicle dynamics.