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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-lead cross functional team to take first product (ATMO Blue) from concept to market in 13 months with 5,000,000 RMB budget; established product development and manufacturing partnerships; defined product roadmap and tech specs with engineers and designers; designed UI/UX over seven iterations
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