Product Design Leader for Enterprise GenAI

With 20+ years of experience, I help teams turn complex AI capabilities into products people actually trust and use. I make UX measurable by connecting design decisions to behavioral outcomes and business results.

CIO 100 Award WinnerMBAMS, Human-Computer Interaction

Impact Highlights

CIO 100 Award
2025 Winner
Deckster recognized for delivering measurable business value through UX-driven GenAI innovation.
+20pp ESAT recovery
Navi satisfaction recovered from 39% to 59% in 6 months after research-driven UX interventions.
400k+ slides / ESAT 69%
Deckster generated 400k+ slides in 12 months with consistently high satisfaction.
46 research studies
Defined research direction across two GenAI portfolios over 2 years, with 460+ participants and 10k+ survey responses.

Featured Work

Deckster Interface
Lead Product Designer · UX Strategy2024 - 2025

Deckster: AI Slide Generation Tool

CIO 100 Award winner. 400k+ slides. ESAT 69%.

Turned an AI experiment into an award-winning product by redesigning around the slide creation lifecycle, shifting the team from feature-driven to problem-driven development.

  • Experience strategy & architecture
  • Research at scale (33 studies, 260 participants)
  • Evidence-based roadmapping
  • Design system (48 components, 15 products)
Product Design Lead · UX Strategy2024 - Present

Navi: AI Knowledge Assistant

+20pp ESAT recovery. 24k-user platform. 4 research-driven interventions.

Diagnosed that what looked like an adoption problem was actually an experience strategy problem, then led targeted design interventions that recovered satisfaction while sustaining growth.

  • Search + chat interaction architecture
  • Agent discovery & trust through traceability
  • Deep Research for structured synthesis
  • Evidence-based tradeoff navigation

Explorations

Creative explorations outside of work—from DIY maker projects to puzzle-solving tools.

Movie Marathon Planner

A React-based web app for finding optimal movie schedules across multiple theaters. Visual Gantt chart timeline, smart caching, and drag-and-drop scheduling to plan the perfect cinema marathon day.

Explored: schedule optimization and timeline-based interaction design.

Demonstrates: data storytelling, external API integration, systems thinking, and full-stack product execution.

React 19Node.jsFull Stack
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DIY ASET & Ideal Scope

A complete guide to building your own gemstone light performance analyzer using everyday materials. When shopping for an engagement ring, I created these DIY scopes to assess diamond cut quality—saving thousands of dollars.

Explored: low-cost prototyping for optical inspection and decision support.

Demonstrates: experimentation, practical systems modeling, and maker problem-solving.

Maker ProjectGemologyDIY
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Locksport Tools

Interactive tools for understanding lock mechanisms and security systems. Includes a combination lock decoder calculator and resources for the locksport community.

Explored: lock mechanics, keyway geometry, and security model behavior.

Demonstrates: systems modeling, algorithmic thinking, and technical depth.

SecurityCalculatorPuzzle
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PhoneSpell

A vanity-number utility that spells phone numbers into words, converts words back to digits, and analyzes pasted text for spellable 10-digit numbers.

Explored: language-pattern matching and reversible number-word transformations.

Demonstrates: utility-first product design, pattern logic, and edge-case handling.

Next.jsTypeScriptUtility Tool
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Contact

Open to Director-level Product Design and UX leadership roles, especially in GenAI, enterprise platforms, and complex data-rich environments.