UX Project Planning • Execution & Delivery • User Workflows • Interaction Design • Visual Design Direction • Systems Thinking • Cross Product Standardization • Brand Translation Across Digital Interfaces • Front End UI • Medical Device Touch Interface Design • Complex Systems & Multi-Device Ecosystems • Operations • Leadership & Mentorship • Life Sciences • Patient Safety Design

Directed UX operations for Alcon’s UNITY® Surgical Suite that includes multiple medical device digital interfaces —including the new UNITY® Vitreoretinal Cataract System (UVCS), femtosecond laser, and surgical microscope systems—while leading UX design initiatives to unify the Alcon’s surgical ecosystem into a cohesive, interoperable experience. 

Operational Leadership & Mentorship • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Stakeholder Alignment • Project Planning • Design Systems Interaction Design & Governance • Agile / Hybrid Agile–Waterfall Process • UI Specifications • User Interface Design • Wireframing • Resource Allocation 

Served as operational lead for a distributed UX team (4 direct reports & 6+ contractors) across 5 concurrent product development initiatives

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Embedded designers within product teams while maintaining alignment to shared UX strategy and system standards 

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Established a hybrid Agile/Waterfall UX delivery process using Jira and Confluence, improving visibility and cross team coordination 

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Partnered with Digital Health design, R&D engineering, clinical, and regulatory teams to ensure UX alignment with technical and compliance requirements

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Influenced product direction across multiple teams within workshops and design reviews, driving cohesive UX decisions across the surgical ecosystem

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Led design team and collaborated with product stakeholders to align digital experiences across consoles, microscopes, software planning tools, and heads up displays to a unified surgical suite design guide 

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Led translation of the surgical device brand into digital interfaces, shaping the look and feel of Alcon’s UNITY surgical system 

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Played a key role in creating Alcon’s first design system, led and contributed to foundational patterns and governance that standardized UX patterns across medical device digital device experiences to reduce cognitive load and ensure consistent, intuitive workflows

Drove cross product UX cohesion, enabling a more connected and interoperable surgical ecosystem 

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Elevated design team performance and delivery quality through structured processes, embedded support to product teams, and mentorship of talent 

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Increased UX influence across R&D by establishing design system foundations and aligning product teams to shared standards

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Contributed to measurable improvements in surgical workflow efficiency, usability, and overall operating room performance

Senior UX lead for Alcon’s UNITY Surgical Suite of digital interface brand development and UX project lead and designer of UVCS® digital interfaces. Drove the UX strategy and execution of heads-up display and surgeon digital screens that unified legacy product experiences of CENTURION® Vision System & CONSTELLATION® Vision System. Defined interaction models and visual direction, and partnered with commercial, clinical, engineering, HFE, and external design teams to deliver development ready solutions. 

Acted as an individual contributor and led a team of 5 designers to support the design of the UVCS’s cataract and vitreoretinal procedures

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Designed user flows, interaction models, and interface solutions for high stakes operating environments 

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Unified two legacy product experiences into a single, cohesive system as the first of its kind within the market

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Contributed to and led visual design direction across devices and interfaces for Alcon’s UNITY® Suite of Surgical Devices 

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Partnered with external UX/HFE consultants and internal engineering teams from concept through implementation 

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Maintained visual consistency across physical and digital touchpoints in collaboration with Industrial Design 

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Ensured design intent was accurately translated into development ready artifacts 

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Supported product team through exploratory concepts and iterative solution development of the UVCS 

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Establish the UX function within R&D and mentored emerging designers 

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Identified and onboarded additional design resources to improve delivery quality

Founded the UX function within R&D to support product development of digital experiences of the UNITY surgical ecosystem, significantly reducing 3rd party vendor costs by a 1/3rd for R&D development

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Delivered a unified UX for the UVCS’s digital interfaces, increasing surgical efficiency and supporting better patient outcomes

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Established scalable UX practices that increase design consistency and lowering long term development costs

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Strengthened collaboration between design, engineering, and HFE teams, improving regulatory readiness and reducing late-stage design churn

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Improved design delivery quality and velocity by mentoring designers and raising execution standards, reducing engineering churn and improving product consistency

Delivered UI and development ready assets for the cataract surgical system, CENTURION® Vision System and LEGION® System digital interfaces—Alcon’s top premium devices in its class—working directly in WPF/XAML to implement pixel perfect layouts. Produced high fidelity 3D renderings, maintained visual consistency across physical and digital touchpoints, and led regulatory compliant labeling and graphics production.

Created UI assets and development ready layouts for the CENTURION digital interface 

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Implemented UI styling and C# view model layouts directly in visual studio, assessed branch changes and merged code 

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 Produced high fidelity 3D product renderings used for medical device setup guidance within the CENTURION & LEGION digital interfaces 

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Maintained visual consistency across hardware and software touchpoints (e.g. logos, regulatory symbols, digital interface icons) 

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Designed regulatory compliant labeling, device skins, packaging, and instructions-for-use

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Partnered with engineering and regulatory teams to ensure accuracy and compliance

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Streamlined Labeling & Graphics workflows with standardized tools, reducing errors and rework

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Provided design leadership and continuity during manager absence

Contributed directly to the successful delivery of Alcon’s top premium cataract surgical device, improving product quality and helping maintain Alcon’s competitive advantage in the premium device segment

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Improved UI implementation quality through hands on WPF/XAML execution, reducing software to software V&V process time by delivering cleaner, more implementation ready designs

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Increased clarity and product representation through high fidelity 3D renderings, enabling faster onboarding of new operating surgical staff and reducing time required to learn pre surgery device setup

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Reduced labeling errors and improved scalability through workflow and template standardization • Provided early leadership that strengthened team continuity and decision making, increasing predictability and improving the quality of design outputs across programs

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic design & Illustration 

Display for ophthalmic surgical console display with user selectable sectors: US 9,149,340 & US 10,238,538

Alcon 2010 Special Achievement Award for outstanding performance and contribution to the development of CENTURION Vision System GUI

Adobe CC Tools • Figma • Jira / Confluence • C# WPF / XAML • Microsoft Tools • Cinema 4D

Usability & Cognitive Load Reduction • Prototyping & Design Communication • Dev Ready UI Specs • Patient Safety & Use Risk Mitigation • HFE Integration in Life Sciences • Workflow Mapping

Design Systems • Iconography & UI Assets • 3D Product Visualization • WPF/XAML UI Implementation

Product/Engineering/Regulatory Alignment • Stakeholder Communication • Requirements Translation • Vendor Coordination • Bridging Design with Engineering • Workshop Facilitation • HFE/Clinical/QA Partnership for Safe, Compliant Designs 

Team Leadership & Mentorship • Resource Planning • Distributed Team Management • Design Process Optimization • Multi Project Oversight • Coaching on Regulatory Aware Design

Workflow Optimization • Error & Rework Reduction • Scalable Design Frameworks • Cross System UI Consistency • Regulated Product Development Support • Design Controls Alignment (IEC 62366, FDA HFE) • V&V Ready UI Outputs