Design Director, GE
Conference Sketchnoter
At GE Digital, MJ leads an experience design team who connect people, data, and machines through industrial apps that leverage Predix, GE’s revolutionary Industrial Internet platform. Prior to joining GE, MJ’s design expertise and pragmatic leadership has benefited clients including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, College Board, Johnson & Johnson, The McGraw-Hill Companies (including Standard & Poor’s), Pfizer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Sony Electronics, and the United Nations. MJ has also been a leader within IxDA (Interaction Design Association) for nearly a decide. She served as a New York City local leader, co-chaired the Interaction11 conference, served as Treasurer on the Board of Directors from 2011-2014, and co-chaired the 2015-16 Interaction Awards. An evangelist for drawing, sketching, and the power of visual communication, MJ coaches people in reclaiming their innate drawing skills through instructional workshops of her own design. People often tell her she has incredibly neat handwriting.