User Experience Professional based in Germany with over 10 years of experience in UX. I’m currently working at Cisco as a Product Design Manager, leading a design team that is based in the US. Before joining Cisco, I worked at digital agencies designing consumer-facing websites, mobile sites and software applications for diverse clients.
I thrive in making complex systems easy to understand and use. I do this by analyzing and understanding user goals and business needs and bring them together into a cohesive and usable solution. I tend to work holistically and think of the entire system when designing solutions. I enjoy leading design efforts across cross-functional teams and working together with product owners and product managers, sales people, developers and other designers. I effectively facilitate design reviews and present design rationale to stakeholders. Ultimately I always work towards increasing the organization’s design maturity and bringing design higher up into the decision making chain.
EDUCATION
University of Jyväskylä, Finland Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Systems, 2006
SKILLS User experience design, interaction design, information architecture, wireframes, user flows, interactive prototypes, user research, qualitative user testing, usability reviews, usability and conversion optimization.