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Work Experience
Stadia Church Planting
Product Designer
Mar 2022 - Present | Remote
Stadia helps people start new churches that thrive, grow and multiply
- Conduct user research with multiple stakeholders to glean insights, identify opportunities, and define product parameters
- Iteratively design, prototype, test, and work with development partner to implement a multi-stakeholder digital platform to help more people start new churches, and to help the church-planting ecosystem become more data-informed
LeadersAtlas
Product Designer & Program Consultant
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022 | Remote
LeadersAtlas turns the skills & knowledge within a team into practical, peer-led workshops that address leadership priorities.
- Productize consulting service offerings: ideate, design, prototype, and work with engineering team to implement
- an internal web app for program design & management, and
- a client facing web app to engage employees in and beyond LeadersAtlas workshops, and visualize key metrics on team health for client leader
- a chatbot to automate client interviews during session creation process
- Set up product development process from idea generation to implementation, and work with team to integrate with existing practices
- Design workshop activities and templates to plug and play across all client sessions with corresponding facilitation instructions and sample agendas
Flourish
Product Designer
May 2021 - Jan 2022 | Remote
Flourish matches volunteers to opportunities based on their passions, skills, and schedule.
- Conduct market research and user research to understand product context for all stakeholders and develop product roadmap as first designer
- Design, prototype and work with engineering team to implement mobile app that matches users with volunteer opportunities, and web app that enables volunteer-based organizations to manage opportunities & teams, integrating best practices, actionable insights, and impact measurement
- Conduct usability tests to uncover problems and opportunities, understand user needs more deeply, and iteratively improve product design
Purpose in Motion (PIM)
Program & Visual Designer, Project Manager
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022 | Remote
PIM empowers young people with education, resources, and networks to become mission-driven leaders and effective changemakers.
- Design a Tech for Good training program and global competition for 3000+ participants across 115 countries for a multinational technology company
- Develop virtual career prototyping programs, and workshop materials for 300+ students across 3 universities
- Curate social impact leaders to participate in training young people towards impact-driven careers
- Design program materials for localized, holistic, in-person learning experiences to complement online degrees for Infinity Campus
Design for Social Innovation
Founder
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020 | Beijing, London, San Francisco
DSI is an open social impact platform to empower anyone, anywhere to use their skills for good.
- Curated and ran 20+ webinars for 200+ people in three weeks for BlockCOVID, a virtual summit to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on society, and created a mini accelerator with 20 mentors across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
- Trained 300+ people ages 13-60+ on creative methods, lateral thinking, rapid prototyping, and diverse perspectives on global issues through in-person and virtual workshops with design, technology, business, and social sector experts
- Developed ideation game to enable broader participation in social impact, used by partner organizations in training workshops and recruiting events in Asia and Europe
Innopanda
Founding Team, Strategy & Design
Jan 2016 - Sept 2017 | Beijing, China
Innopanda was a talent collective that explored new ways of living and working through building independent ventures or within existing organizations.
- Identified business opportunities, prepared project proposals for Fortune 500, government, and startup incubator clients
- Designed and ran design thinking and agile workshops for product, strategy, and culture using Art of Hosting techniques
- Graphically harvested outcomes, synthesized data for reports
Blue Sky Lab
Founding Team, Project Manager & Product Designer
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017 | Changsha, China
Blue Sky Lab, an Innopanda Venture, is a product development company for better health and environment with a focus on air, food, and water.
- Defined platform direction and strategy with key stakeholders. Conducted co-design workshops, prototyped iterations of concept products based on user & market research
- Co-led cross functional team to take first product (ATMO Blue) from concept to market in 13 months with 5,000,000 RMB budget by establishing product development and manufacturing partnerships, defining product roadmap and tech specs with engineers and designers, designing mobile app over multiple iterations, and developing launch strategy.
Daimler China IT Innovation Lab
Founding Team, Project Manager
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015 | Beijing, China
I was hired by WeImpact to help set up Daimler Chinaβs in-house experimental center and proto-incubator for new technologies and business applications, the precursor to Lab1886 in China.
- Managed tech research and ideation team for potential applications in business units across Daimler China
- Designed ideation process to increase company-wide engagement in new product development and innovative business applications
- Prototyped online and offline open innovation platforms over multiple sprints
- Supported design and strategy for process, tools, and visualizations to transparently manage innovation pipeline
- Worked with engineering teams to design and prototype digital products as a part of the labβs service to internal clients
Lacebark International Education Group
Operations & Program Design
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015 | Beijing, China
Lacebark was a boutique education firm that aimed to fill in the gaps within the public education system in China through customizable and holistic learning experiences.
- Developed mentorship program, tutor/student evaluation, and individualized learning plans to prepare high school students across four Chinese cities for post-secondary studies abroad
- Managed curriculum, itinerary, and promotional materials for five experiential learning camps
- Built and managed a team of ten tutors and mentors, and systematized student intake process
Community Engagement
YWAM San Francisco
YWAM San Francisco's mission is to engage the city with a loving God. Restoration Initiatives is a ministry of YWAM SF that exists to restore, empower, and serve the marginalized in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
Urban Community Discipleship Training School
November 2019 - September 2020 | San Francisco, USA
Restoration Initiatives Staff
June 2020 - Present | San Francisco, USA
- Develop economic empowerment strategy, programming, and partnerships to help our unhoused neighbors develop life skills and job skills so that they can re-enter the workforce
- Develop partnerships with community organizations and service providers to create a unified advocacy for the needs of our unhoused neighbors, and to prototype holistic services for unhoused women
- Support streamlining of fundraising strategy, volunteer experience, outreach training, and relief services
FaithTech
Silicon Valley Co-Lead
January 2020 - January 2023 | San Francisco, USA
FaithTech bridges the disconnect between faith and tech through community, projects, and thought leadership.
- Connect with Christian technologists, churches, and para-church organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area to relaunch and grow Silicon Valley chapter of FaithTech after a period of hiatus
- Build and nurture a volunteer leadership team to oversee Labs, community engagement, communications, and spiritual oversight
- Build partnerships with churches, parachurch organizations, non-profits, and tech companies to create meaningful service opportunities for our community
- Coordinate monthly meetups and experiment with creative virtual community-building activities in between meetups
- Coordinate annual missional hackathon (hacksv.faith)
- 2020: coordinated a virtual hackathon for 70+ registered participants in and around the Bay Area
- 2021: oversaw an organizing team of 14 volunteers across 10+ cities to coordinate a hybrid hackathon for 200+ registered participants across North America
- 2022: oversaw month-long global virtual hackathon and a 1-day in-person hackathon in San Francisco
- Develop communications strategy and content alongside Communications Lead, including designing social media posts, monthly newsletters, and video content
- Coordinate with Labs lead to develop workflow and project pipeline
Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum
Sept 2016 - Present | Beijing, London, San Francisco
- Impact Officer, San Francisco Hub (April - October 2020)
- Social Lead, London Hub (May - November 2019)
- Hub Project Coordinator, Beijing Hub (March - September 2017)
Fellow, RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce)
Jan 2019 - Present | London
Kingdom Code
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019 | London
Alpha International
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019 | London
Education
MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering
Double Masters, Royal College of Art, Imperial College London
Oct 2017 - July 2019 | London, UK
BA Psychology, Foreign Languages