Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Leading Product Design, UX Research, and Creative teams for Microsoft 365 Copilot App.

Jun 2023 – Apr 2024 · 10 mos

• Leading Product Design teams for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, on Web and Mobile.

Mar 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Leading Product Design teams across Office Product Group for Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Office Video, and Office AI - NUI (Natural User Interfaces).
• Microsoft Loop (until June 2021), Microsoft Designer (until June 2023), Microsoft Visio (until June 2022), Microsoft Project (until June 2022).

Dec 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Leading Design Teams for Microsoft Office suite of apps on mobile platforms with Word + Excel + PowerPoint for iOS and Android, Excel Online and Visio.

Mar 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Creative Director for Microsoft Layout and Senior Design Manager - Mixed Reality at Work.
• Owned the creative direction and experience strategy for Microsoft Layout, while establishing the Creative Team grounds up with a multidisciplinary group of Design, Art, and Technical Teams. The Creative Team conceived and delivered many complex interactions and newer patterns in interacting with large holograms in space, and digitally reconstructing and designing industrial spaces. Interfaced directly with multiple S400 customers in giving product and concept demos, holding design workshops, and gathering requirements to inform and influence product directions.
• [About] Microsoft Layout empowers customers to design spaces in context with mixed reality, using HoloLens and/or VR from concept to completion. You can import 3D models to create room layouts in real-world scale, view designs as high-quality holograms in physical space or in virtual reality, and share and edit with whomever you want in real time.

Sep 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Owned design for multiple strategic areas in the browser experience to transform how people consume and collate content on the modern day web, with a focus on winning users in education.
• Led the design team in crafting many of the currently available features in Edge including Reading Experiences (Immersive Reading View, Documents), Read Aloud, Learning Tools & Experiences for Education, Browser Extensions, Web forms and Autofill, along with Inking & Annotation Experiences (Web Notes, PDF, and Books).
• [About] Microsoft Edge is the native web browser that first shipped with Windows 10, a fast and secure way to get things done on the web.

Apr 2010 – Aug 2015 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Windows 10
• Did small things with great love! Designer of strategic inbox essentials in Windows 10 including Calculator, Alarms & Clock, and Voice Recorder that worked alike on Windows PC, Tablets, and Phones.
• Designer of the Date & Time panel on Windows 10 Desktop Taskbar.
• Windows Phone 8.1
• Designer of Files (File Manager) and PDF Reader on Windows Phone 8.1.
• Windows 8.1
• Designer of Help + Tips on Windows, updated Windows Reader, and Phone Companion - for smart phones to work better together with Windows.
• Windows 8
• Designer of Windows Reader for PDF and XPS.
• Windows Phone 7
• Designer & Co-developer for popular Windows Phone 7 apps - GeekByte, Comica, and Designspire (In personal capacity).

Feb 2007 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Looking beyond Windows - Crafted experiences and designs for making computing intuitive and appeal to a wider audience on alternate Desktop form factors and through the reach of Television to impact the next billion users.

Aug 2006 – Jan 2007 · 5 mos

• Emerging Market Labs - Incubation for Next Billion Users