Senior Manager, Experience Design
SimCorp • Copenhagen, Denmark • August 2018–Present
Promoted from Lead UX Designer (2018) to Experience Design Team Lead (2019) and Senior Manager (2024).
Experience Design is a shared horizontal capability across SimCorp’s product portfolio for institutional asset managers: centralized reporting and career framework, with designers allocated across product areas.
- Grew SimCorp’s Experience Design practice from 4 to 14 designers, with six direct reports.
- Authored a cross-functional strategic framework for the product portfolio, developed with Engineering, Marketing, and Revenue leadership.
- Initiated the Design System and gathered internal support to evolve it from proof of concept to the platform-wide standard.
- Enabled sales and research by building prototypes and coordinating demos for product leaders and commercial teams, including for SimCorp’s annual client events.
- Taught designers and product colleagues to prototype in code with AI assistance.
Design Strategist
Topp Design & Innovation • Malmö, Sweden • February 2018–July 2018
- Design strategy consulting for international clients, including Samsung, Toyota, and E-On.
Principal
People Innovate (self-employed) • Copenhagen, Denmark • July 2016–February 2018
- Independent design and innovation consultancy in Copenhagen, working with clients in healthcare, renewable energy, and data-intensive products. Research, prototyping, and facilitation for cross-functional teams.
Lead Designer & Design Manager
Stanford Health Care • Palo Alto, California • January 2014–June 2016
Led design for MyHealth, Stanford’s Epic-based patient portal, turning a commodity experience into a distinctive Stanford-branded digital healthcare platform.
- Established a continuous research practice with 30+ patients over 2.5 years (generative interviews, usability testing, help desk validation), embedding patient evidence in design decisions.
- Built a prototyping infrastructure and a SASS-integrated design language (2014–2015) that served design, product, and engineering, with documentation linked to development stories.
- Hired and mentored 2 designers; established the research methods and cross-functional model integrating Strategy, Design, Technology, and patient perspectives.
- VP of Customer Success: “one of the highlights of my time at Stanford Healthcare.”
Senior Interaction Designer
frog • Austin, Texas & San Francisco, California • September 2010–October 2013
- Led client engagements for AT&T, Disney, HP, and others across Austin and San Francisco studios. Identified a recurring gap between design intent and how it was understood downstream, and developed the “Design Communication” concept to close it: adopted across teams and socialized through materials I created for the studio.
Lead Designer & Project Manager
Attoma • Paris, France • October 2007–July 2010
Lead designer and project manager at a Paris design agency, reporting to its Chief Design Strategist. Clients included Thales, RATP, SNCF, Orange, Parkeon, and Banque de Luxembourg.
- Led concurrent client projects with small teams of designers and developers, working directly with client product, marketing, and engineering leads. Led the team that won Orange’s TV Player design contract in a competitive review against the incumbent agency.
- Thales Hypervisor: redesigned a security command-and-control system for operators on six-hour shifts, moving from everything on screen at once to the right information at the right time. Jointly awarded an Étoile du Design (APCI, 2009) with Thales.
- Parkeon Orbit: designed a modular parking kiosk system for deployment in 40 countries, and supervised usability testing by partner firms in France, the USA, and the Netherlands.
- Designed transit information for Paris and French regional rail: a cartography system for RATP’s bus network strategy, and real-time on-board travel information for SNCF.
Principal
Christian Égéa Design • Paris, France • June 2004–October 2007
- Independent web and information design consultancy in Paris.
Writer, Translator & Project Manager
Ubiqus • Paris, France • September 1997–September 2000
- English language copywriter, serving Ubiqus clients by producing quality, value-added transcriptions and French-English translations of oral proceedings of live events and meetings.
Business English Instructor
Le Français Immédiat • Paris, France • September 1997–September 1999
- Taught business English to employees of French and Asian companies in the Paris area.
