UX Design Director

Scaling design leadership across AI, Fintech and Global Products.

I have experience with industry-leading companies in Finance, Oil & Gas, Energy, Healthcare and Industrial Goods. My work has taken me all over the US, to Europe and the Middle East. I have a passion for new, creative experiences especially in games, entertainment and augmented reality.

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Work Samples

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Companies

Highlights

Danti
  • Pioneered UX foundation as first full-time design hire, establishing design processes and systems from the ground up for AI-powered geospatial search platform
  • Drove strategic alignment through direct collaboration with C-level leadership, translating CEO vision into high-fidelity Figma prototypes and Loom videos that accelerated team understanding and development
  • Scaled design capacity by recruiting and managing freelance designers, coordinating with offshore development teams, and partnering with branding agencies to deliver comprehensive product and marketing experiences
  • Accelerated product development by creating interactive prototypes that enabled rapid iteration and reduced front-end development time
Features
  • Bento box 360 situational awareness
  • Collections shared saved searches
  • Before and after image compare
  • Complex map visualizations
  • Data cards
  • Kernel Mesh analytics model workflow builder
  • Many more
Industries
  • Defense
  • Real Estate
  • Insurance
  • Drone imagery
  • Disaster relief
Zest.ai
  • Delivered high-impact SaaS product by designing the Model Management System end-to-end, positioning it to generate $500K ARR within 6 months based on validated client commitments
  • Built scalable design infrastructure by architecting the Zest Design System using atomic design methodology, dramatically accelerating design-to-development workflows and enabling rapid iteration
  • Transformed complex AI into usable features by converting the CTO's Robotic Process Automation vision into an intuitive interface that non-technical credit union staff could configure independently
5+ Products
  • Build
  • Adopt
  • Operate
  • Select Offering
  • Scoreboard
  • Robotic Process Automation
Skills
  • SaaS design
  • Strategic product design
  • Design systems (Atomic Design)
  • Data visualization
  • Form optimzation
  • User research & validation
Danti
  • Drove rapid product launches by leading EnergyBot from concept to market in 7 months—40% faster than industry average—through comprehensive user research, synthesis, and cross-functional collaboration
  • Built design operations at scale by establishing frameworks, templates, and workflows that enabled consistent quality across 12+ Fortune 500 client products spanning multiple industries
  • Led and developed design teams by managing 15+ UX designers across concurrent projects and founding the Communication Design department, including hiring, onboarding, and performance management
  • Created lasting market impact with products like EnergyBot (7+ years in market, top 30% survivability), AutoGravity, and Pharos across healthcare, mobility, finance, energy, and industrial sectors
  • Established design excellence standards through knowledge-sharing frameworks, Learning & Development research, and design workshop facilitation for the UX Cohort
12+ Ventures
  • EnergyBot (energy marketplace)
  • AutoGravity (automotive financing)
  • Pharos (risk management)
  • 9+ additional digital ventures
Industries
  • Energy
  • Mobility
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Industrial goods
BCG Digital Ventures
  • BCG Digital Ventures: Innovation and incubation lab for the Boston Consulting Group
  • Digital transformation, new business development for Fortune 100 businesses
  • One of the founding members in 2014
  • Established the Communication Design department
12+ Ventures
  • Innovation
  • Incubation
  • Product Definition
  • Validation
  • Branding
Industries
  • Finance
  • Energy
  • Oil & Gas
  • Industrial Goods
  • Healthcare

Software Skills