
Hello,
I'm Jonnie
I'm a Product Design Leader & DEIB Advocate that leads a global multi-disciplinary design team at Lenovo. I'm passionate about building diverse teams that design inclusive and ethical technologies for everyone.
My team's focus is to design meaningful hardware and software experiences for Lenovo's incubation businesses using new and emerging technologies. Over the last few years, we've launched some of the world's most innovative solutions including the ThinkReality A6, ThinkReality A3, ThinkSmart View, and ThinkSmart Manager. My team includes senior managers, human factors engineers, UX designers, interaction and motion designers, UX researchers, scientists, prototypers, and developers.
Prior to Lenovo, I managed a 35-year-old printing company, Arrow Reprographics, where we doubled our revenue in under 1.5 years. In 2016, we sold the business to one of our competitors. Before small business owneship, I launched several startups while pursuing my MBA at the McCombs School of Business. My concentration was at the intersection of design and business strategies.
I started my career at Johnson & Johnson designing medical devices for the most complex joint replacement solutions on the planet. During my five years there, I designed more than 1600 instruments as a Lead Industrial Designer and Human Factors Engineer and received several patents for my work.
Currently, I am finishing up my Master of Education at Harvard University where I focus on the intersection of DEIB, education, and emerging technologies. This graduate program allowed me to take courses at Harvard Graduate School of Education, MIT Media Lab, and Harvard Business School.
Outside of work, I enjoy running, writing, and playing board games with my family. I also mentor new designers and teach UX across various platforms and classrooms.
2006 - 2010
University of Notre Dame
BA: Pre-Medicine & Industrial Design
ISLA Grant Recipient
2010 - 2015
Johnson & Johnson
Lead Industrial Designer
Human Factors Engineer
2012 - Present
Moi
Founder & President
2014 - 2016
Arrow Reprographics
Business Owner
2014 - 2016
University of Texas at Austin
MBA
2016 - Present
Lenovo
Senior Manager
User Experience Design
2020 - Present
DesignLab / Designed / ADPList
2021 - Present
Mentor & Coach
Harvard University
Ed.M
Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology
MIT
Cross-Registrant: Tangible Interfaces MAS.834
2021 - Present
Future Investment in Talent
Founder
Incubated at Harvard iLab
Harvard Business School
Cross-Registrant: Strategy and Technology
RECENT AWARDS
Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2021
2021 Red Dot Award (2), 2021 Good Design Award (2), 2022 CES Award,
2021 iF Design Award (2), 2021 UX Design Awards Nominations (2), 2021 CES Award,
2020 Good Design Award, 2020 IF Design Award, 2019 Red Dot Award, 2019 IDEA,
Lenovo Best Commercial Team Award, Lenovo CTO Team Award
EXPERIENCE
Design: Industrial Design, 3D Modeling (CAD), Prototyping, Rendering, Sketching, Human Factors, Ergonomics, Usability, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI) Design, Graphic Design, Design Thinking, Infographics, Branding, Master Brand Strategy, Wireframing, App Design, Software Design, Website Design
Research: Customer Insights, Design and User Research, Ethnography, Voice of Customer (VoC), Behavior of Customer (BoC), Customer Personas, User Studies, Mixed Methods Research
Marketing: Product Management, Project Management, Product Owner, Strategic Marketing, SEO, Big Data, Market Research & Analytics
Hobbies: Running, Writing, Starbucks Mug Collecting, Dad Jokes
CREATIVE TOOLS
Adobe Creative Suite
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
After Effects
Premier Pro
Adobe XD
Proto.io
InVision
Sketch
Figma
Axure
OmniGraffle
Miro
Notion
Mural
Blender
Unity
Coggle
SOFTWARE & LANGUAGES
Microsoft Office 365:
Word, PowerPoint, Excel
Microsoft Project
Stat Tools
@Risk
R Studio
Siemens NX
Bunkspeed Shot
HTML / CSS
SQL
Python
Google AdWords
Google Analytics
Facebook Ads
Intuit Quickbooks
Tableau
Jira
Confluence