Cisco Systems · AI in Admin UX LeadSeptember 2025–present+
Lead AI and Agentic Apps UX across Developer Portal, App Hub, and Control Hub, connecting developer registration and app discovery with enterprise configuration and governance.
Developed an AI maturity model and working frameworks to align design, product, and engineering on appropriate capabilities and control.
Created an Agentic UX playbook covering embedded and extended experiences, use cases, audit, and reusable skills. Shared guidelines were authored by a colleague.
Currently working with teams to adopt the strategy and with Yankun Wang to review audit logging as support for edit capabilities develops.
Cisco Systems · Lead UX Manager, Contact CenterJuly 2023–September 2025+
Led UX design for CX AI routing. Customer-reported results included a 30% reduction in call duration at one customer and an average reduction of 27 seconds per AI-routed call across 2,198 calls at another.
Led a team of two designers and advocated for their designs and product thinking.
Created a dedicated CX AI area that brought AI settings together and included help content so customers could understand features before enabling them.
Advocated for the unified AI area despite stakeholder doubts that consolidating settings would make a difference. Customers expressed enthusiasm when shown the experience; quantitative outcomes are still being gathered.
Cisco Systems · Product Design Manager, Partner HubMay 2020–July 2023+
Led a small design team working on Partner Hub, Cisco’s platform for partners.
Led an onboarding revamp that reduced average completion time from 40 minutes to 10 minutes—a 75% reduction.
Designed partner-platform workflows supporting Cisco’s partner ecosystem. Cisco reports that around 90% of its revenue flows through partners.