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Executive Summary
Board-trusted UX, product design, and innovation leader with a track record across Fortune 100 enterprises, mid-market organizations, and high-growth startups. Unifies UX, engineering, and AI strategy into a single operating model that enables rapid experimentation, validated learning, and scalable delivery instead of one-off projects.
Built a lean Innovation Lab that ships patentable MVPs in weeks at a fraction of traditional costs, earning sustained CEO and board-level recognition and direct influence on multi-year capital plans and AI/ML roadmaps. Founded and scaled human-centered, organization-wide design systems at Albertsons, Walmart, Bank of America, Quorum, and TMX — including the agentic-AI-enabled Unified Design System at Albertsons, adopted as a company standard across multiple business units — and regularly advises boards and C-suite leaders on generative and agentic AI governance and enterprise AI developer tool strategy.
Built a lean Innovation Lab that ships patentable MVPs in weeks at a fraction of traditional costs, earning sustained CEO and board-level recognition and direct influence on multi-year capital plans and AI/ML roadmaps. Founded and scaled human-centered, organization-wide design systems at Albertsons, Walmart, Bank of America, Quorum, and TMX — including the agentic-AI-enabled Unified Design System at Albertsons, adopted as a company standard across multiple business units — and regularly advises boards and C-suite leaders on generative and agentic AI governance and enterprise AI developer tool strategy.
Impact at a Glance
Selected metrics from innovation labs, design systems, and AI governance work across Fortune 100 and high-growth organizations.
Design system adoption (company-wide)80%
Engineering velocity improvement (Design System)30%
MVP delivery speed (vs. legacy programs) 90%
MVP cost savings per MVP90%
Supplier onboarding SLA reduction76%
Error reduction (supplier onboarding)23%
AI coding assistant activation93%
AI dev-tool policy compliance85%
Core Competencies
Leadership / Strategy
- Board/C-suite advisory, portfolio and capital planning, innovation lab operations, organizational design, cross-functional leadership, change management, enterprise transformation and modernization
UX and Product
- Enterprise AI enhanced design systems (tokens, governance), design-to-code CI/CD, product discovery and roadmapping, DesignOps, accessibility (WCAG 2.2), human-centered design, research and validation
AI/ML and Technology
- Agentic AI (UI assembly), AI coding assistants and developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor), AI governance and compliance, data-science UX, MLOps integration, Figma-to-code (Locofy.ai), LLM toolchains (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok).
Business Impact
- OKRs and value realization, ROI measurement, internal chargeback models (monetization), P&L influence, portfolio governance, vendor and stakeholder management
Awards / Credentials
Specialization course
- Enterprise Innovation Award, Albertsons – first production AI deployment in Merchandising; CEO recognition
- Design System Leadership Award, Albertsons – single source of truth adopted enterprise-wide
- Enterprise Hackathon Winner, Walmart – AR/smart-store innovation; founded full-service Maker Lab at 7-Eleven R&D to boost collaboration
- Harvard CS50 (Computer Science, certificate)
- High Impact Presentations, Dale Carnegie Training
Regulatory compliance
ADA Web Accessibility, FCRA, Digital Banking Compliance, Fair Lending, UDAAP, Enterprise Information Protection, Financial Crimes Compliance, Global Privacy Awareness and Personal Information, Business Continuity Awareness, Regulation GG (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act), Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption
Educational History
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE
Asian Studies & Japanese LanguagePortland, Maine Campus | 1995 - 1997
Activities and societies:
- Volunteer, Director of Shimane University Student exchange program
- Tutor first-year students
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Psychology & MathematicsKent State, Ohio Campus | 1989 - 1993
Activities and societies:
- Volunteer with the International Student Organizations
- Volunteer for Japanese Culture Exchange Circle
- Financial advisor for Indian Students Association