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Resume

Product Designer — digital + physical, from architecture to AI.

Experience

GE Appliances

May 2026 – Present

Louisville, KY

Interaction Design Co-op

  • Own UX for the SmartHQ connected ecosystem — HMI and mobile experiences used by millions of households.
  • Drive end-to-end design execution: 10+ usability tests, user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Ship scalable solutions with PMs, engineers, and industrial designers, including redesigned SmartHQ cooking workflows.

Vicino AI

Feb – May 2026

Remote

Product Designer

  • Designed the B2C landing page supporting the company's shift from B2B to B2C.
  • Designed AI-native features: an AI video-editor agent and prompt-to-workflow natural-language editing.
  • Led UX for social listening and media workflows, cutting content production time from 25h to 5h.

Tropic

Jan – May 2026

Pittsburgh, PA

Product Designer / Product Manager · CMU Capstone

  • Led product and interaction design for TropiCool, a 0-to-1 solution with potential reach of 5M+ GCC households.
  • Ran research with ~50 participants across the GCC region, translating findings into design decisions.
  • Drove the concept to completion with engineers and sponsors, making strategic design trade-offs throughout.

DOPI Design

Apr 2022 – Jul 2025

New York City, NY

Product Designer

  • Won 1st place in a global IoT table-lamp design challenge with a modular lighting concept for small spaces.
  • Led the full UX process — research through usability testing — for digital and physical products.
  • Built and documented a scalable B2B design system in Figma for Orby AI.
  • Prototyped, tested, and helped define product positioning and go-to-market strategy.

Education

2025 – 2027

Master of Integrated Innovation for Products & Services

Carnegie Mellon University

2016 – 2019

Master of Architecture

Pratt Institute

2011 – 2015

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Hubei Institute of Fine Arts

Skills

Tools & Software

Figma · Sketch · Tableau · Miro · Jira · Trello · Adobe Creative Suite · Rhino · AutoCAD · KeyShot

Programming

HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Python · SQL

AI-assisted Development

Claude Code · Git · GitHub · OpenAI Codex · Vibe Coding