I have been working across various areas, focuses, niche’s and groups at Google. The various user needs or systems and constraints have made me flex muscles, skills and storytelling.
A Google.org fellowship is an amazing opportunity where employees sign up to join a project in partnership with a non-profit to create something, hopefully, amazing. This project was in partnership with CDP, a company that collects environmental hazard disclosures from governments and corporations. Our task was to create a dashboard of sorts to make the consumption of adaptation actions easier to digest.
Working across Data quality stewardship and understanding how to connect it all to make sense. This area manages team structure, software BOM databases and relationships as well as the enterprise knowledge graph.
Enabling managers to verify their reports assignments to teams and work tracking
By importing data, how can we allow users to meaningfully explore the Knowledge Graph.
Responsible for a lot of internal need to know tooling to help users get their jobs done with regards to workflows supporting legal and compliance needs for a corporation the size and with the reach of Google.
Affectionatally called Nemo internally, an internal search engine that served our Legal teams. Enabled searching for Contracts and litigation cases across various focuses like employment, patent, etc. cases.
The goal of this project, which has since been left to be, was to capture the business process of different groups and organizations and automate steps and routing to parallel and sequential steps.
Coordinated the Mobile suite of internal apps to leverage Googler’s and their corporate devices, to find people, places, and knowledge when they are on the go. Coordinated the branding efforts, and interactions and interoperability between each other. Lead the UX for various other collaboration products, Graffiti board (precursor to JamBoards internally), Teams Team (internal directory), GVC (Video Conferencing system), and other products either in the beginning or continuation of their explorations.
Was part of the significant re-imagining of the internal search engine. Modernizing the UI, expanding the OneBox and Knowledge Cards shown internally. Created patterns, visual marks and other affordances to improve the search experience of the user.
Designed formats specific for tablets, like iPads. Defined and modified Google’s existing pipeline of Ads to meet the experience guidelines necessary for success. Increased RPM and eCPM’s by 40%, with showing less ads than the same formats on Desktop. Designed rich media ad formats to bridge the gap of lacking flash support on iOS devices.
Represent AdMob/Mobile Ads with Google for Mobile World