A bit about me

Strategic Product Designer, Product Manager, and UX Practitioner with cross-functional experience in design, technology, and business across industries.

WHAT I DO

 

I incorporate UX research, UX design, and strategic design to tackle complex challenges and turn them into meaningful solutions. I help companies research, design, and develop practical solutions that meet their business and user needs.

I bring a background in computer science with business management training at IMD Business School (Lausanne, Switzerland) and formal design training from Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business and Design (Milan, Italy) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design (MA, USA). I enjoy solving global and local challenges, identifying emerging trends, and translating user needs into meaningful solutions that create social good, shape new experiences, and drive business growth.

As a servant leader, I collaborate across functions, provide strategic direction, and motivate successful execution across multiple verticals. I enjoy building relationships with the team and provide opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow.

Whether you are working on a new start-up or an existing product, I’d love to hear about your design challenges and see how I can help you succeed. Feel free to drop me a line, and let’s start a conversation.

EDUCATION

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Graduate School of Design
Master in Design Studies
Cambridge, MA, USA

POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Graduate School of Business & Design
Master in Strategic Design
Milan, Italy

IMD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Graduate School of Business
Executive Business Management
Lausanne, Switzerland

DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
College of Computer Studies
BS in Computer Science
Manila, Philippines

EXPERIENCE

 

As an immigrant and first-generation elementary, high school and college graduate, I leverage my unique background in design, business, and technology coupled with proven creative, analytical, and problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguous, uncertain, and diverse environments and capture competitive advantages in dynamic markets. I thrive on researching, ideating, designing, prototyping, iterating, and bringing ideas to life in a holistic way that integrates the entire product ecosystem.

Throughout my versatile career in product design, research, and strategic design, I contributed significant value, innovation, and business growth to a wide range of industry sectors and market segments from agri-tech to real estate to fintech to cross-border trade to Cloud. I integrated spatial, technical, physical product, and digital product design that made a positive impact on people, businesses, and the environment in Asia, Europe, and the United States.

My career path is not a traditional career ladder with rungs up and down. My experiences have been a “jungle gym” with rungs to the right and left that have facilitated the connections to discovery, real-world learning, and depth of understanding. This ability to vision peripherally has been integral in discovering new opportunities and they have given me tremendous insights into how businesses are formed, how processes are built, and, ultimately, how growth happens. 

I believe in life-long learning and learning-by-doing. I am thrilled to contribute to building inspiring products that customers love through UX research and strategic design. Say hello and let’s get started!

SKILLS

Product Management & Development
Building visions, strategies, roadmaps,
product lifecycle and requirements.
scope, schedule, budget, market
competitiveness, and implementing plans.

Market and UX Research
Helping teams learn about users and
their needs. Research, planning, usability
testing, interviews, site visits, participatory
design, and data analysis.​

Content Strategy
Content research, planning, audits,
development, and management
to satisfy user and business
requirements.

Information Architecture
Identification and organization of site
content and functionality. Card sorting,
tree testing, producing sitemaps,
application maps, and UI specifications.

Interaction Design and UX Design
Designing interactions between user
and product by creating interfaces
with thought-out behaviors that
meet user and business goals.
Visual Programming & Prototyping
Design and visual coding using
Bootstrap, Wordpress, Divi,
Avada, Content Management System,
SketchApp, Principle, Adobe Suite.

INDUSTRY DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

Real Estate Finance
& Development

Agritech and Foodtech
Product Development

Asset Management
& Affordable Housing

Home Products
& Arts and Crafts Industry

Boutique Hotel 
Development

B2B & B2C Ecommerce &
Direct-to-Customer (DTC)

Integrated Processing
Facility Development

International Trade
and Supply Chain

STRATEGIC DESIGN FRAMEWORK

 

Build. Create. Share.

LET’S  COLLABORATE!

Whether you are working on a new startup or an existing product, I'd love to hear from you.

Please feel free to drop a line.

DROP ME A LINE.