Julie is a design leader working at Aurora to make self-driving trucks a reality.

I’m a curator, orchestrator, facilitator, negotiator, and organizer. I bring together experts to make beautiful, thorough solutions to hard problems.

I have applied my interest in people’s experience to the tech industry for 12 years — starting my career during the boom of mobile e-commerce then following interesting problems within the applications of robotics.

Most of my work is confidential. Get in touch with me to learn more.

Product design experience

2021-now

I am creating the trucking company employee experience with integrating self-driving trucks into their fleet at Aurora as a product design manager.

2017-2021

At Uber ATG, I led a team that designed software for operations teams to run self-driving vehicle tests and help those vehicles when they got stuck. I also designed an enterprise software suite for mappers making maps for autonomous vehicles.

2015-2017

I designed the communication patterns for a restocking robot that scanned for empty shelves in stores, and I researched the experience of store employees to see where the robot could fit within their work at Bossa Nova Robotics.

E-commerce experience

2015

I made it easier for shoppers to buy sporting goods as a UX designer at Dick’s Sporting Goods.

2012-2014

I created the first mobile shopping experiences for brands such as American Eagle, Costco, Sephora, and Build-a-Bear as a UX designer at Branding Brand.

Formal education

2010-2014

I earned my Master’s in the Human-Computer Interaction program at Carnegie Mellon University.

I also earned a dual Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University.

Early days

I won an Intel Excellence in Computer Science award for a middle school science fair project evaluating whether people could tell if a website was unsafe to browse. They couldn’t.

In pre-school, my older brother unsuccessfully attempted to teach me Java.