UX Lead and Development manager at IBM building the next generation of large-scale customer experience software. I have been spearheading and practicing Lean, Agile and UX methods at Vivisimo and now IBM with the ultimate goal to improve communication, gain shared understanding and increase happiness. I strive to empower others and work tirelessly to improve the way our growing Engineering team deliver and work together. I have a passion for sharing the Lean UX with the world. In my previous life, I was a Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing researcher and hold a PhD in Language and Information Technologies from CMU.