I’ve been passionate about innovation technology for 25 years, continuously curious and reinventing myself across product experience design, marketing, and content/writing disciplines. Most recently I’ve brought this to my work as a design consultant, executive writing coach, Head of UX Design for Amazon Alexa AI — and most recently founding microsabbaticals.com.
I’ve designed for voice, screen, and physical spaces, with superpowers in UX strategy and writing. I synthesize business, technical, and experiential inputs to see around corners, find new intersections, and generate novel solutions to customer problems and business needs.
I evangelize design within and beyond tech, and am passionate about developing new design leaders. I believe in design as a partner, not a service. As a queer Latina in tech, I live and amplify inclusivity and equity in design, including fairness in AI.
As of 2026, I am working as a design consultant and photographer based in Zürich, Switzerland.
Career highlights:
- Founded design team in Alexa AI Natural Understanding at Amazon.
- Senior Design Consultant at TEAGUE.
- Design lead for Multilingual Mode and Live Translation for Amazon Alexa.
- Design lead for Try Before You Buy platform at Amazon.
- Design lead for for U.S and international launches of AmazonFresh at Amazon.
- Marketing manager at Expedia.
- Founding member Digital Stories, a Sony Music company.
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