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Over a decade leading creative across enterprise SaaS, cloud, data infrastructure, and consumer technology, on top of an earlier career in design.

Work history

Experience

Dec 2025 – Present

Couchbase

Creative Director

Ramp creative leadership during organizational transition. Direct visual identity evolution, event creative strategy, and design operations transformation.

  • Set CKO theme and direction within 2 weeks of joining, on a Dec-to-Feb runway
  • Reworked all 8 executive keynotes into one clean, stage-ready story
  • Introduced a design-ops discipline and a Canva self-service system from zero
  • Built a Gemini-based AI brief builder and unified the design portal, Canva, Adobe libraries, and Figma into one system
  • Worked with our brand agency to define the company personality archetype, then built the interim brand to match its tone and voice
2019 – 2024

Delphix

Creative Director & Brand Strategist

Led a complete brand transformation for a data infrastructure SaaS company. Rebuilt positioning, visual identity, and messaging framework with measurable business impact.

  • Delphix rebrand: 300+ assets in 90 days, no agency
  • Built a new messaging framework with the CEO, CMO, VP of Product Marketing and VP of Brand
  • Helped build a buyer journey map, mapping the signals that resonated with buyers, then used it as the north star for messaging and brand positioning
  • Design system and self-service tooling: 60% reduction in creative ticket volume, measured against tracked ticket data before and after launch
  • Team leadership: 100% eNPS, zero churn over 5 years
  • Summit Award: one recipient every two years, first ever from marketing, unanimous exec selection
2019 – 2024

SustainableIT.org

Creative Director & Brand Strategist

Built the brand from zero at founding: logo, identity, and the full visual system. Ran a lean global rollout across the US and EU.

  • Brand from zero: complete identity, guidelines, digital presence
  • Global rollout across two regions
  • IMPACT Awards brand and physical trophy design
  • Created the IMPACT Awards brand identity, and set event design direction for IMPACT Awards 2023, 2024, 2025 and the Symposium
  • Attended by 50+ senior executives, including the CTO of Wells Fargo and the CIOs of BNP Paribas and Choice Hotels
  • Production efficiency: turnaround from 5 days to 1 day
2015 – 2019

Druva

Creative Lead

Brought structure and consistency to a growing enterprise software brand. Clarified voice and identity, built in-house video, and implemented the first creative operations system.

  • Part of the brand repositioning team: reset the narrative and how we told our story, and rebuilt the L100 and sales decks with an external agency
  • Built in-house video production capability
  • Directed a diamond-sponsored AWS re:Invent booth on the theme “Moving a Mountain of Data”: cast The Mountain, the world’s strongest man, for autograph sessions, and built a virtual mountain-climb game where points were exchanged for swag
  • Grew social across YouTube, X, and LinkedIn
  • First creative workflow (Wrike): intake, tracking, and SLAs
  • Centralized design library and asset taxonomy
2014 – 2016

Electronic Arts

Senior Interactive Designer / Art Manager

Designed interactive campaigns and digital experiences for the Pogo gaming platform, supporting an $80M business.

  • Game launch and sponsor campaign design
  • Reusable email and landing page template systems
  • A/B testing program to improve conversion
Toolkit

Skills & tools

Creative

  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Figma (systems, components)
  • Keynote / PowerPoint
  • Web design principles

Operational

  • Design operations
  • Monday, Asana, Jira, Wrike
  • Vendor management & SLAs
  • Design system architecture

Strategy

  • Brand strategy & positioning
  • Messaging frameworks
  • Competitive analysis
  • Google Analytics

AI & Emerging

  • Generative AI (Claude, GPT)
  • Workflow automation
  • RAG & prompt engineering
  • MCP systems
Education

Education
& awards

Lim Kok Wing Art Institute

Bachelor of Arts in Design & Communication · Malaysia

Full Sail University

Associate of Arts in Digital Media · Florida

Summit Award, Delphix

The company’s highest individual honor: one recipient every two years, first ever from marketing, chosen by unanimous agreement of the full executive team.

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