I am a design executive at Ford Motor Company, where I lead strategy and design for advanced product and mobility initiatives. My work focuses on human-centered systems, organizational design, and the translation of emerging technologies into meaningful experiences at scale.
Earlier in my career, I was on the faculty of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a professor of interaction design at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. I hold a PhD in perceptual robotics from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. My academic background continues to inform how I approach leadership and design innovation. For those of you interested, here's my CV.
In my recent past I've co-founded two companies: the Wrecking Crew, a boutique behavior design agency in San Francisco, and Motiv, a wearable technology startup. Prior to this I was interaction design director at Speck Design, and interaction designer and software experiences practice lead with IDEO in Palo Alto, California. In these roles I led design strategy, implementation, and technology innovation on creative projects for some of the world’s most innovative corporations, including T-Mobile, Samsung, Stryker, Google, Toyota, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Intel and Cisco Systems, and assisted as Juror for “IDEO Selects: Works from the permanent collection” at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Prior to IDEO I worked on interactive media projects with clients including Rolling Stone, the Whitney Museum of American Art and DavidBowie.com. I also worked for several years at Fakespace Laboratories, where I designed immersive virtual reality interaction hardware for clients including Ford, NASA Ames and Los Alamos National Research Laboratories.
I studied physics and studio art at Oberlin College, and have worked for 25 years at the intersection of design and technology. My work has appeared in many prominent American and European exhibitions including La Biennale della Toscana and Palazzo Vivarelli Colonna in Florence, Italy, and the XI Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Athens, Greece. In 2008 I was co-recipient of the XXV Oscar Signorini Prize in Robotic Art, Fondazione D'Ars, Milan.
Earlier in my career, I was on the faculty of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a professor of interaction design at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. I hold a PhD in perceptual robotics from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. My academic background continues to inform how I approach leadership and design innovation. For those of you interested, here's my CV.
In my recent past I've co-founded two companies: the Wrecking Crew, a boutique behavior design agency in San Francisco, and Motiv, a wearable technology startup. Prior to this I was interaction design director at Speck Design, and interaction designer and software experiences practice lead with IDEO in Palo Alto, California. In these roles I led design strategy, implementation, and technology innovation on creative projects for some of the world’s most innovative corporations, including T-Mobile, Samsung, Stryker, Google, Toyota, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Intel and Cisco Systems, and assisted as Juror for “IDEO Selects: Works from the permanent collection” at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Prior to IDEO I worked on interactive media projects with clients including Rolling Stone, the Whitney Museum of American Art and DavidBowie.com. I also worked for several years at Fakespace Laboratories, where I designed immersive virtual reality interaction hardware for clients including Ford, NASA Ames and Los Alamos National Research Laboratories.
I studied physics and studio art at Oberlin College, and have worked for 25 years at the intersection of design and technology. My work has appeared in many prominent American and European exhibitions including La Biennale della Toscana and Palazzo Vivarelli Colonna in Florence, Italy, and the XI Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Athens, Greece. In 2008 I was co-recipient of the XXV Oscar Signorini Prize in Robotic Art, Fondazione D'Ars, Milan.