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HIGHLIGHTS AND LEVEL UPs

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  • 2022

    Neo.Tax

    Head of Design
    Neo.Tax is automating the ability to claim valuable tax credits and perform tax capitalization. Joined at their announcement of Series A, and brought in to help shape strategic company decisions, GTM and product. Day-to-day responsibility for directing the design experience across the company from product (UI/UX/CX) to marketing and sales.

  • 2018

    Kleeen Software

    CEO → CPO / President / Co-Founder
    The Kleeen Software platform enables companies and organizations to automate the generation of business application UI and front-end code with UX best practices. Their platform drastically reduces the time and resources needed to create effective UX/UI from weeks or months to a matter of hours. In 2020, I transitioned into the role as the Chief Product Officer when we brought in a more sales-focused CEO.

    Raised $5.3M over two rounds of institutional venture funding.

  • 2017

    Kleeen Studio

    Head of Technology / Founder
    Originally started a personal UI/UX consulting business called Ugly Duckling Consulting. Due to increased demand, founded UI/UX design studio with Judy Briones. The studio focused on B2B product strategy, design and development, and serviced clients from startups to Fortune 100 companies.

  • 2015

    HPE Aruba (Acquisition of Niara)

    Distinguished Technologist

    Led the design of new UI and UX features for the Niara product platform. Scoped and architected UI engineering projects based on PM, release train, data science and other constraints.

    Additionally was the primary graphic designer company-wide (for sales, marketing and c-suite); designed infographics, marketing and product videos, slide decks, convention booths, online ads, and product material/documents.

     
  • 2014

    ArcSight

    Chief Research Scientist for Innovation & Advanced Technologies
    Led the design of UI, UX and Data Science for current and future products and new software platform development. Acted as PM for team’s active development.

  • 2012

    HP Labs

    Research Engineer
    Created innovative systems (prototype and internally deployed platforms) at the intersection of UI/UX, visual design and data science (pattern mining, text analytics, and data modeling), while employing robust software engineering practices across two teams of developers I managed

  • 2012

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    Human Computer Interaction + Data Science + Text Analytics + Modeling

  • 2008

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    MS in Computer Science
    Focus on Human Computer Interaction and Digital Signal Processing

  • 2006

    Carnegie Mellon University

    BS in Computer Science (With Honors)
    Minor in Music Technology

Granted Patents

Relationship preserving projection of digital objects (HP Labs)
US11399166B2 — July 26, 2022

Room capture and Projection (HP Labs)
US11381793B2 — July 5, 2022

System and method for automated application programming interface generation (Kleeen Software)
US11275625B2 — March 15, 2022

System and method for automated application programming interface generation (Kleeen Software)
US11275625B2 — March 15, 2022

Automated API generation (Kleeen Software)
US20210026757A1 — June 1, 2021

Interactive display (HP Labs)
US 20180278899 A1 — December 15, 2020

Performance tracking in a security information sharing platform (HPE ArcSight)
US 20180288085 A1 — October 20, 2020

Playbook-based security investigations using a card system framework (Niara / HPE Aruba)
US 20190104137 A1 — October 20, 2020

Privacy preservation while sharing security information (HPE ArcSight)
US 20180300504 A1 — August 25, 2020

Tagged content distribution (HP Labs)
US20200143427A1 — May 7, 2020

Card system framework (Niara / HPE Aruba)
US 20190102372 A1 — April 28, 2020

Security investigations using a card system framework (Niara / HPE Aruba)
US 20190102542 A1 — March 24, 2020

Dataset browsing using additive filters (HPE ArcSight)
US 20170140002 A1 — January 7, 2020

Pagination point identification (HP Labs)
US20170139878A1 — May 28, 2019

Force feedback (HP Labs)
US 20160291695 A1 — December 10, 2019

Digital note manipulation (HP Labs)
US 20170139889 A1 — October 15, 2019

Context based mobile device (HP Labs)
US 20160337844 A1 — October 3, 2017

Presenting documents to a user based on topics and collective opinions expressed in the documents (HP Labs)
US9436663 B2 — Sep 6, 2016

Mobile web-based platform for providing a contextual alignment view of a corpus of documents (HP Labs)
US9189540 B2 — Nov 17, 2015